CHAPTER
6
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
SEE YOURSELF AS A LEADER Leaders are not born; they are made. They are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that is the price we have to pay to achieve that goal, or other goals. In the introduction, I expressed the idea that there is a spectrum where, at the very bottom, we find people not having the slightest idea of what is going on and could not care less, while at the very top there are the one percent of people in our society who are spark plugs in the engines of change. Every one of us is on that spectrum somewhere, moving up or down, depending on the things that we are doing and saying daily. If you want to be a leader or a better leader, remember that it is all up to you. It is in your hands, or even most important, in your mind. You are what you think you are. Your selfimage determines your performance. You can become a much more effective leader by changing your self-concept, the way you think about yourself as a leader. The purpose of this book is to enable you to become a leader and if you are already a leader, to enable you become a more 49
