Sunday, April 5, 2009

Thursday Report #9 Learning Leadership

"Some leaders learn to lead by making mistakes and then reflecting enough on those mistakes to develop principles for future...another way is to learn the principles based on the mistakes of others."

This phrase means that leaders do not have to make mistakes to learn leadership lessons. Through reading books about leaders who learned from their mistakes, and/or having personal conversation with leaders who made mistakes, a leader can learn basic principles about leadership. This phrase should inspire leaders to not assume they will make mistakes. Yes mistakes are inevitable, but leaders should not strive to make them in order to learn from them. This phrase should also encourage leaders to reading numerous books and pursue experienced leaders to gain proper leadership knowledge that will inspire their future leadership. Another insight leaders can gain from this phrase is the importance of study. Leaders should study leadership.

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