“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and be more, you are a leader”

These words of the British writer Simon Sinek masterfully summarize what an authentic leader should be and how he should exercise his leadership.

The leader must earn the denomination through the results obtained, but not only by the objective data of the financial statements of the company, but by the results obtained through the influence exercised on the rest of the team, the rest of the staff, and in the company’s set of stakeholders.

“Every leader is a boss, but not every boss is a leader”

Every leader is a boss, but not every boss is a leader, and this must be kept in mind. If we want to limit ourselves to making decisions, to mathematically objective valuations and to results that qualify us as an efficient executive in the achievement of business objectives, we will be giving the boss profile. This can be perversely attractive, since we will have a good feedback in the short term and we will be well valued by those who pay us the salary, for which, it seems difficult to think that we should leave all this aside to do things differently.

Leadership in times of change

However, we are in times of change, and this change must also be made in our management style.

It may seem that everything said above must be abandoned because the present has changed, and things should be done differently. It is true that we must do things differently, but let us be clear that, if there are no objective results, if the company does not earn money and is not able to produce more efficiently and effectively and in a sustainable manner, everything else will be useless.

Having clear then that the results are essential, how we arrive at those results is what differentiates the real leader from the usual boss.

Be a source of inspiration for collaborators, transmit your passion, your vision and join with you adding instead of obeying, be consistent so that your actions do not contradict your indications, that your team wants to go where you go and not where you tell them to go, … in summary, and as Simon Sinek states in the sentence that opens this text, if you inspire them to dream, to learn, to do and to be more, YOU are a leader.

Become a leader to admire

Become someone to admire, to follow, to imitate; We all have references that have transmitted all this to us, thus we all have examples of what we want to transform ourselves, whereby there are no excuses. YOU decide if you want to be a boss and command or be a leader and transform.

Arturo Gálvez – Business Counselor
http://ajgalvez.com/