A title does not make someone a leader. Titles are like business cards. Anyone can have one printed.
Leaders pave the way, often for themselves. It might sound heroic and Braveheart-like, but this path is often often forged in the deep valleys of despair, darkness, self doubt and/or cluelessness.
Leaders are not afraid to think outside the box. And outside the new box they land in. And outside the newer box, and on and on. Walls attract them, to plough through.
Strong leaders beget leaders. Weak leaders beget subjects.
Weak leaders crave for titles and positions. Titles and positions don't attract healthy and secure leaders.
Many good leaders I know, don't know they are leaders.
A leader is anyone with a strong spine to follow his or her own gut. This concept is alien to most of us, because we have been programmed to to blindly and unquestioningly conform to the most vocal or accepted idea out there. That need not be the case.
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