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Leadership and responsibility
A lot has been said concerning leadership in politics, in businesses and churches, but the premises that precede this concept might need generalized reviews.
Leadership is more than a position or granted power. It is the attitudes of every person who has a view, communicated through their mission and experienced through actions coherent to their values.
When we perform in an environment that does not accept the mistake as a natural process and appraises the people who “know everything”, it is easy to imagine a culture that raises impotent victims. After all, those who “know everything” cannot make a mistake and, if it happens (and it always happens) the “guilt” can only reside in external factors.
Without a new, more protagonist view, the leaders do not feel as being part of the problem and, for this reason, they are not part of the solution, generating impotence and more excuses.
Corruption is, in essence, the space created by the lack of protagonism in the environment, generating systemic opportunities for mistakes that can neither be admitted nor recognized as such.
It is important to recognize that today the companies make up the institution of greatest power on the planet and that from an educational and vigorous leadership inside the organization, we can support a more comprehensive and fair education, demanding from the governments a more transparent posture and proportional to their mandates and responsibilities.
This seems to be a unique moment, where the professional performance gains in alignment to the higher values of a protagonist society that wants to be entitled to responsibility, in other words, to have the ability to give appropriate responses to the ballot boxes, to the atmosphere surveys, to the children and new educators.
Leadership can and must have a renovating role in this new context, more complex, as well as more challenging!
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