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LEADERS ARE RECOGNIZED, NOT CREATED BY MUHAMMAD RASHID SHAFI
I
am inclined to express my narrative after witnessing certain captions on electronic media that “We create Leaders in the organizations”. Somehow the other, I tend to disagree. I hadn’t only read it from various sources but had the chance to hear them as well from prestigious institutions and authors. I have a background emanating from a small dwelling to a posh housing, a small society to a polished society, street mates to learned fellows, a public school to prestigious universities, a street sports player to a national sports player, working in Public, Private, Multi-national organizations and Entrepreneurships. This gave me the benefit of possessing a dual perspective when it came to analyzing such content. Given this dual perspective, means mentioning a long history of touching diversified facets of life and meeting people of distinguished abilities coming from humble to all kind of backgrounds.
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My experience guides me to the notion that leaders are present among people in all spheres of life and all kind of backgrounds. Leaders have skills, capacities and a disposition, distinctive from others, are according to the environment they are brought up and exposed to opportunities. Their skills are akin to having a competitive edge from other individuals. Not all leaders make it to the top, but they are yet, still leaders of their respective spheres. With these divergent platforms, opportunities and circumstances one encounters, a leader only needs a platform, much like a social setting, to exercise the already existent leadership qualities. Which brings me to the ideology, that, we don’t create leaders. We recognize them. The question is as to how to recognize a leader in a pool of candidates. Simple, you need to be a leader to recognize another leader. I’d like to narrate this through one