A Leader Has to Be Reborn

The key for understanding leadership is to understand persons who are widely accepted as leaders. Leadership flows from leader and not vice-versa. A leader never follows any leadership theory or style (Otherwise he is not a leader). The theories and styles are created by scholars after a person has proven himself a leader.

Leadership is like an art which is always unique. An art is not known to the world and even to the artist till it is created. If you ask a novelist the story of his next book, his answer has to be negative. He cannot know what is going to strike in his mind in future. No musician can have even a hint of his next composition. All artistic creations are like the children which are created by the union of male and female members of the specie. It is impossible to predict the attributes of the child and no father or mother have any say in creation of the child. They only come through their parents yet they are independent. This had been beautifully expressed in a poem by Khalil Gibran which reads

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

It is not that children are independent of their parents. They take all their physical and metal attributes from their parents. Their features, intelligence, colour of the skin, height, weight, blood group resembles their parents. Yet they are independent and they may vary widely from their parents considerably as a human being. Most genius and great leaders were born of ordinary parents and not from great parents.

Just like every man or woman had the potential to create another person, every man has a hidden leadership. Only when the man faces a situation which is exceptional, a leader is born. Thus the leader the man can be considered as the father of the leader and the situation or environment can be consider as the mother of the leader. Only when the right person mates the right situation, a great leader is born.

Leaders cannot be created but every ordinary person has the potential to become a leader. A leader is not born, he is born-again. First, he is born as an ordinary person and then he take birth as leader.

In Christianity, it is believed that every man should be born twice. He is first born as a physical being just like any other animal. However, he must be born again as a spiritual being to achieve salvation. Jesus says,

"I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5 KJV)".

The leaders too are born again people. The physical man dies and then only the birth of leader takes place. The leader may have the feature of the parents yet he is different from the man who was born as a child. A leader may not a pure spiritual being and he is not born again to enter in the Kingdom of God. He is born again to take the kingdom of the earth, which too has been created by God. He guides the humanity through the path determined by God. A leader is a king of his nation, state, society, origination or his family. Everyone follows his command. His followers worship him like a king, often like a God as there is no one above king in this world.

Sometime, people become king before becoming leaders. This was more common in ancient and medieval societies where the son of the king only could become king. Even in the modern world, often the son of the presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and the Heads of the Organization get the chair of their father even without proving their leadership. It is like entering into the kingdom of God without having performed the required good deeds. The kings too lose their kingdom and often prosecuted by their own people if they fail to emerge as leaders.

The leadership cannot be taken for granted. You have to reborn as leader, if you wish to take the leadership roles in the organisation. A leader is a man of the masses and he sacrifices his personal interest for the sake of the followers. If the leader continues to behave like ordinary mortals, his leadership cannot be accepted for long.