Got a problem at working place? Not easy to get along with
co-worker, receive countless blame from boss, no respect from subordinates etc.
Got a problem in family? Can't enjoy family, children did not performance as they
should and husband and wife did not play role as they suppose they should be.
Got a problem in a country? Violence, corruption, chaos in the community. These
are problems that often ghost people. These problems really disrupt good life
of most people. How to get out of this worse situation become a doubtful for
almost everybody.
Efforts have been made to find
the solution but seems does not really answer the whole complex because there
is problem already with the answer itself. The answer is not inclusive; it is
not covering the whole story. The answer is context-situated and geographically
determinate. We need the holistic one and that this article is the right
answer to above question, nothing more nothing less.
Leadership is the only SOLUTION
to all problematic life mentioning above. Why? What so special about
leadership? Believe or not leadership is a well-known term and everybody knows
its meaning but why remains many disputes, conflicts and puzzle life. There
must be something wrong with it.
Now look at what leadership
really means. Leadership defined by John C. Maxwell as the ability to
influence, nothing more nothing less. Maxwell defends that when you can
influence people and that people is doing something for you or following their
task not because they have to but they would like, that ís really leadership.
Maxwell is very correct to a bigger part.
When your people, your
co-workers, your students, your children, or neighbours are doing things for you
not because by order but they are pleased to do, you should notify that your
leadership is considerably high. And the other way around if you force your
fellow people to do something but they reluctant or resist to do it, for sure
you have not even little leadership capability.
Gandhi, Luther King Jr. and Aung
San Suu Kyi define "Leadership" differently. Leadership is all about
devoting one's own life for the sake of the public with no condition. In fact,
they all did already. They scarified even life for the goodness of their nation
and the entire world. They did not hate their enemies. They treat people as
human being equally. Nothing is higher or lower to them. Everyone is free and
equal from birth. And when they see disrespect over human value, they always
step in to help change the situation. So far, they succeeded it.
This is comparably matched with
Buddha's four sublime states of mind: Loving-kindness, compassion,
sympathetic-joy and equanimity. One has to always stick to these four sublime
state of mind to live a good life. With loving-kindness,
the first principle, towards all beings will bring greater peace, happiness and
harmony. For sure, there will be no fighting, disputes or violence conflict
among family, working place, or society. Together compassion, sympathetic-joy
and equanimity, this is the answer to the above question. And that with these
four sublime states of mind constitute a leadership character.
Hence, Leadership is about scarification,
devotion, serving the public and in total must consist of loving-kindness,
compassion, sympathetic-joy and equanimity.