how to become a leader of value?

Question

leadership values

Answer 1

When making decisions, ensure that you consider truth your highest priority. Here is the litmus test for decisions:

# FIRST: Is it the TRUTH?
# SECOND: Is it FAIR to all concerned?
# THIRD: Will it build GOODWILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIP?
# FOURTH: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Lastly, consider that when you are entrusted to defend those you lead, you must defend them even if violence is required. As Gandhi explained it, "Violence is preferable to Cowardice".

Answer 2

By showing that the people you lead are your priority and their well fare matters.

They are the reason what, why, when, how you do things.

Your values are measure by those whom you lead. If they are your priority, then love, care, motivation, nurturing their skills, talent and gift does matter and most of all show grace, compassion and forgiveness.

In all that shows a leader with great values.
Hope that helps.

Answer 3

The first and most significant virtue is integrity... BEING RIGHTEOUS, HONEST AND STRAIGHT FORWARD. A leader that exemplifies character instills confidence in their followers. You can never do wrong if you stick to your gut instincts and protect the golden rule.

Answer 4

Love of country. Absolutely looking out for the people at all costs, despite what fears they have, despite what the media and their poll numbers say or what lobbyists offer. Inspiring and uplifting to the people.

Answer 5

HONESTY
HARD WORKING
PUTTING OTHERS ABOVE PERSONAL AGENDA
SHARING OF IDEAS
MORALS
FAMILY VALUES
PUTTING GOD FIRST IN YOUR MARRIAGE
NOT WORRYING WHETHER YOU GET THE BIG PLANE SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE FAMILY AND FRIENDS BACK TO CALIFORNIA WITH YOU.
MAKING SURE THAT WHEN YOU GIVE A YOUNG LADY A RIDE ON A BRIDGE NEAR A LAKE THAT YOU GET HER OUT OF THE CAR TOO BEFORE YOU DRIVE IT INTO THE WATER!
DON'T FOOL AROUND WITH THE INTERNS THAT ARE UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE.
AND DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT WHO YOU ARE LETTING USE YOUR GEORGETOWN CONDO BEFORE HE STARTS RUNNING AN ILLEGAL HOMOSEXUAL RING FROM YOUR APARTMENT.

Answer 6

I can write a huge essay on this topic, I have even been taught the principles of leadership. However, I am going to confine it to the most important skill of leadership, the one that is never taught.

Leaders have to lose. The object of being a leader is to improve the lot of those that you lead. A great leader is doing what he or she does to help the people. Anything else is selfishness.

When the President deals with Congress, when the Senate deals with the House and when the states deal with their own government it has to be one of compromise. You can’t win all the time and trying to do so will only hurt your people. One big problem we have with our current politics is polarization. Everyone has a group that they work with and they refuse to work with anyone else. One or two decades ago this wasn’t a major problem, congressmen and senators were willing to talk with each other and compromise to reach a solution. The entire organization about congress is keyed to the art of compromise. For a bill to pass it first has to pass committee which calls for compromise, then it goes to the floor for a vote, which will go badly unless the sponsoring politicians make deals—compromises with there fellow politicians to get their support. Then the bill goes to the other house where the same thing happens. Often each house passes a slightly different version of the bill, which is then sent to a joint committee to create a new bill that is agreeable to all. The bad part of a compromise is that by definition all sides lose a little; to make that compromise they need to be happy with less than what they want. Our media has helped to polarize the politicians and the audience with their instances on the sound bite. If you ask someone from the right of the left extreme a question then they have a ready made answer that has been polished to fit into 5 second sound bite. If you ask a middle of the road person a question then they have to take time to form an opinion, usually by weighing the arguments of both sides, and then matching them against his or her personal value system. This takes time and doesn’t lead to the 5 second sound bite

Wealth and personal power is nice to have, but many politicians are only in it for those reasons. Because of that their people suffer. They not only have to pay for those trappings of power they have to pay for the lack of attention by that power obsessed politician. In short a good politician has to be willing to lose some of the comforts due their position for the good of the people. This is why any pay raises made by congress cannot take effect until after the next election when the people have a chance to vote on them. Congress has short circuited this by only voting themselves Cost of Living Allowances, which take effect immediately and without having to be disclosed to the public.

A sign of a good leader is a leader who is humble. Military commanders like Napoleon, General Norman and Alexander the Great learned an important lesson. They lived and worked with their troops and shared their dangers. These are the kind of leaders who will have men happily die for them. Another powerful leader is someone like Alexander the Great who came up through the ranks. The soldiers who were once just like a regular person in the ranks and came up to become an officer is one who is beloved. I have seen it myself. In one unit the company commander was a former enlisted man who worked in the motor pool. Because of this he didn’t mind putting on a greasy jump suit and climbing under a truck to see what the problem is. Since he understood both the enlisted person’s point of view and the wider point of view that an officer has to have he was able to detect a supply problem and fix it. The entire motor pool was loyal to this captain, and they would have done anything he asked them to. He was willing to come from a less privileged rank and get down beside his men, this made him a great leader.

Jimmy Carter was only in office for 4 years and he was not considered to be a great president, even after winning a Nobel Peace Prize for getting Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty. But, Jimmy Carter gave a lot to his office, a whole lot. He came into office when the Presidency had been tarnished, a hated war had ended, and for the first time inflation was becoming a big problem. He tried his best to handle that and was handicapped by some of it, but he did a good job. We only see just how good a job in his career after being president. Not just his formation of Habitat for Humanity, but in his work among other nations to promote world peace, and in his work on a committee that watches national elections for fraud and abuse. No president has worked harder since leaving the office than any other. This humble peanut farmer became a great man, not by letting the office be great, and not by seeking personal greatness. He saw a job that had to be done and he did it, and he continues to do it.

I run a roleplaying game. For those of you who don’t know what that is; it’s a game where a group of players get together and play the role of imaginary characters. They decide on the motivations, goals and all of the personal features of the character and then they interact with other players and the Game Master who runs the villains and the cast of characters normally found in life. The game is controlled by a complex series of rules and occasionally by the random action of dice. It is a very complicated game and only a few can master it. Computer role playing games are a pail shadow by comparison since they don’t offer the interaction or allow the player to act. Very few people are good enough to run the game. The GM has to not only know all the rules, and the extra rules that only the GM knows, but they have to build the character’s world, stock it with whatever else exists, write the basic plot, create the villains, the obstacles and allies that the character meets. Then the GM has got to run all of this and keep it pleasing for the players so they will continue to play the game. As a GM I learned that there is no true winner in the game. The GM has the powers to change rules with the same power that the author of a novel has. If a character tried to fight the GM then he can change the laws of physics to dump a mountain on their heads; the GM has all the power. However the GM has to let his characters win. The GM is the leader of the game, the controller, and the organizer, but he has to let the characters in the party overcome the odds and win. What good is a novel when the hero fights the archvillain and loses, it has been done in some stories, but it is not as satisfying as when the hero defeats the bad guys, get the girl (or the boy) and all that he deserves; in short he or she wins. When a GM runs a game the fun for them and the group is the shared experience of the players winning.

Playing this game is where I learned that to be a good leader you have to lose, not fail, but lose and thereby letting the people the leader leads triumph.

In life it seems like you always want to win and the winner gets the best of everything. If you are a political leader then you have to put the welfare of your voters above your own welfare. Not to the point of destroying yourself, but do you really need 10 servants in the Governor’s Mansion. Can you really afford to take a few weeks off for every month of work (like the last Congress did, and this one seems to be doing).

Politicians become valuable for 4 reasons; the amount of money they can raise, the influence they can peddle, the connections they have and votes they can get. If they want to do well though they also need to be able to sacrifice, to let their voters win. They need to fire some of those servants, not take as many vacations, travel by commercial airlines sometimes, and to work hard for the people. Even the best politicians lose sight of this, they favor the lobbyists over their constituents, they seek the expensive cigars and fine alcohol and they seek money; not just to get reelected but also to fill their own pockets.

Winning isn’t the only thing in life, too many people think that and our civilization suffers for it. If you can learn to lose a little then you can do better in the career of a politican.

Answer 7

1. be as dumb as possible
2. have no facility with your language
3. lie to your constituents
4. waste their money and lives

Answer 8

honesty
responsibility
integrity
philosophy
logic
wisdom
valor
patriotism