“Leadership is the way to make things happen through human beings who believe in change”.
Most of the time throughout history, humanity has been changed for the better. Countries, governments, organizations, and families need leaders to survive in critical and desperate situations. Abraham Lincoln and Anne Mulcahy are examples of those types of leaders. Through difficult moments they succeed with the three most relevant characteristics that the two leaders have in common are listed as the following:
1. Believers in human beings.
2. Believers in change.
3. Believers in themselves.
Believers in Human beings:
Their approaches to request information were very similar. Ask for advice at any level, questioning, and analyzing the situation in an open door environment. Such are the reflections of their belief in human beings. Both were deeply involved with their clients, and coworkers, because they believed that they may help them in certain important decisions making. For instance, Abraham Lincoln always stayed in touch with customers, suppliers. Those groups regarded him as a people person. However, Anne Mulcahy was regarded as a sales person. She maintained a very close relationship with Xerox’s clients. For example, she cited in the following comment “I started out in sales, and literally hounded the streets for the fist ten years of my carrier” .
The art of leading people is a very complex process. Development in the process of life starts in the family, school and all activities of living. However their knowledge in human beings, determined how they behaved, how they are motivated, how they are facilitated to implement various strategies, to persuade and turn whichever situation, in the way that they nee ...