Why Do You Lead?

Can you achieve relevance and vision without long exposure to the outside, if revelation occurs at the border between vulnerability, imperfection and experience?

Someone asked me for a simple answer: "Why do you lead?". Unable to answer on the spot, I began a painful search. The answer did not come from outside, but from confronting one's own motivations. This is how I understood that leadership is first an inner dialogue.

The path of self-knowledge is essential in leadership. It starts from where you are and ends where you want to be. The assumption of an identity that honors you by what you are, what you do, the way you present yourself before the highest court - your conscience. And consciousness means filtering all things with your inner acceptance before acting, then seeing what reaction you get from life.

Self-knowledge is the inner dialogue that guides you, like a road that opens other roads. But just as well, it can mean an unwon war with yourself, preventing you from becoming whole, making you feel limited in a certain field or in a certain segment of life. Because inner dialogue means, first of all, self-reflection, and then it means assumption. You cannot lead others without knowing yourself.

Can you rise above your own condition, giving up the condition as a mere effect of external causes that limit you?

Only the favorable events can occasion you the enhancement of your most precious good - your personality - which is formed and noticed precisely in the moment of smooth transition, but sometimes hard and painful, from an existential state to another, by assuming the courage to be vulnerable or imperfect.

The true light that connects you to the value of life is the consequence of the final confrontation between the decision to abandon yourself to a desolate feeling of frustration and the power to rise above and beyond limits of any kind.

Therefore, one of the things you learn and accept throughout the leadership process is this: the power to rise above your own condition does not happen by accident. It involves relinquishing the condition of simple cause and effect and the ability to change things around you to reach as high as you can.

Leadership: Between immediacy and expansion, only veridical reflection gives you the necessary vision to consciously cross your own limits?

This power is built through the will to free yourself from the scenarios of a struggle with an unseen force, by identifying and owning mistakes. You will always remember them, not as failures, but as experiences that propelled you towards a constructive, higher becoming.

In this respect, it is important to remember the point of view of the expert in leadership, John Maxwell: "I still feel the sting of the very painful things that I've learned when I try to pass them on to you. Yet, I'm also encouraged because I'm glad to recognize that I am wiser today than I was in years past."

The human character and personality that embraces the science of leadership, it is formed by going forward, but always looking back, at the mistakes you have committed in the fight with yourself.

Can you give life a unique meaning while trying to clarify your self-awareness by interpreting an as-yet-unknown fact?

Self-consciousness in the mysterious picture of life is revealed with the recognition of those values of meaning that make you proud and honor you, such as continuity, originality and permanent renewal, from which you have to choose only your choice of truth. Do you attach a sense of ascension or descent to your journey? You find out the truth when you come to give yourself the particularity of functioning by recognizing and accepting your own limitations and mistakes.

The only unknown fact that you have to sketch out through thoughts, attitudes, and skillful approaches, through lines of great sensitivity, drawn out angrily, in that constant whirlwind that first turns you until you do not know where you are, is the freedom to be yourself and defeat yourself.

Leadership is constituted as a whole of personality, when you overcome yourself, beyond any limitation and beyond any circumstance.

Why Do You Lead? Because you assume freedom, in terms of identity, knowing that leadership begins with an inner dialogue. Because you chose evolution, from the point of view of meaningful values, knowing that victory over self is the only real power. I say this because character is hardened in battle, like a sculptor polishing his work, so that every mistake becomes a fulcrum. Yesterday's boundaries become tomorrow's bridges.