Transformative Leadership

Reason, passion and courage is the skills that makeup a leader who can bring about real change. First you find a cause to believe in that drives you to bring about change. Find an issue that causes you to feel fire in your heart. Second you show passion for that issue by speaking out publicly in favor of change. You should know exactly what you want the end result to look like and know what you are willing to settle for and what you cannot live with as a end result. Third you will have to have the courage to stand up to people who will find new and often innovate ways to attack you for your stand on the issue. The sad part of this process is that it will not only be people you expect but close friends that you would never think would attack you that will work the hardest at it. Fear of change is a powerful motivator when it comes to people close to you. Loss of control and image are also powerful motivators to cause friends and family to attack you for no reason. Courage is often referred to as character building. Hope is the willingness to give other people the desire to bring about change for the better.

Makes you want to just run right out to become a transformative leader does it not? If you do decide to become a transformative leader your life will never be the same because once you let it out it never returns to the box. The speaker that I listened to today talked about an aspect of a dissatisfied individual. Don’t feel bad because you will be in good company. People like John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Alice King and Barack Obama were and are dissatisfied leaders. The question is do you want to live a safe life or a life full of hope and belief in a positive future? Are you willing to become the agent of change or are you willing to settle for less in life? History remembers the dissatisfied transformative leaders who would not stop until they brought about real and lasting change.