Leadership Model
I believe that the fastest way to grow is by modeling. No, not your usual Vogue or Cosmopolitan model concept of tall, thin walking sticks, but the modeling of someone that is successful already and learning from them how to do it.
That’s the way we all learned when we were young. Our parents said to us: say: “MA-MI” and we said: “MO-MO” and we kept on repeating until we finally said: “MA-MI” correctly. Same goes with walking, riding a bike, playing and actually anything that we’ve learned when we were young. That was the fastest way to learn. That is why we were able to master the most difficult tasks in life at such early age as 3-4 years old!
However as we grew up three small letters entered the equation E-G-O. Our ego! From there on we couldn’t allow ourselves to learn from someone else as immediately in our mind that was translated as if that person is better than us, which meant that we are less, or a failure. We’ve stopped than learning as fast as we can.
Once I’ve realized that I do not allow my ego (which sometimes is big) to interfere in my way of learning new skills, new ways and growing. When I see or read about someone that is successful, powerful or interesting I always go and see what can I learn from that person. I get inspired by them and learn from what they have accomplished and see what it is that I can improve and learn for my life.
I’ve always loved to read about inspiring people, people that shaped history, people that contributed to the world. These people show me and teach me things that I can also do, in my own small world, in my own small way, which can improve my life and the life of the people around me. That can be my small contribution to creating a better world.
As of next week I am going to devote once a week (or maybe more) a section to one of those women that I find inspiring. A woman that is for me a leadership model.
If you have women that were your leadership model, write to me and let us all know about those inspiring leaders.
Have a great day!
