Positions of Power and Apparently Leadership

Today, I was thinking about leadership less people who find themselves in situations where they have a hint of power. Now, this power could simply be setting up a schedule for fellow workers to having a promotion at work where they are in charge of a few hundred people. Or, worse yet, the leader of a country. Now, I am not trying to make any kinds of political statements in this blogger of my daily life, but I am trying to think something through.

In my experience, I have see many times where people thrust into these sorts of positions do amazingly well and teach themselves to learn from their peers. If they learn from their peers and their leaders, generally speaking, they have the potential to become leaders as well. But, what about those who are not capable or are not ready to lead? What do they do? There is always a transition where they first think that by leading it means to boss people around. They find that punishing people is the best solution to get them to do what they want. It sounds much like a teenage popularity contest, but that is what it really comes down to.

I think there are too many people out there that believe that situation drives the world, not leadership. They are in a situation to become the leader, doesn't mean that they are. We need more people to be able to lead in this world and not just push people around.

Anyway, enough on that since it is late....off to push around my pillow.