BIG

I wonder about you often, since you are my top dog boss in this place.

So many things here seem wrong, and are seemingly easy to put right if only you would make the hard decisions.

Here at least is what you have taught me about leadership:

People want to be led. And they want to be led like children want to be led my their parents. Fairly, with dignity, but with a clear direction. They also want role models, leaders who behave the way they want their staff to behave. Leaders who do what they want their staff to do.

It is not about being nice, it is about being fair.

It begins with a belief that the people who are already with you on the wagon want to be with you and do your bidding. Not with the assumption that they cannot.

People will surprise you if you allow your self to be surprised. They will rise to the occasion, and sometimes even go beyond.

People will also be blinkered, coloured by the baggage of the past, the legacy of everything they feel have gone right and wrong in the past. If you want a clean slate, you have to do the cleaning and not let the past colour your own judgement about what needs to be done.

Because in the end, you are judged with what you leave behind, not what you create today. You are remembered by how you changed other people's lives and not how you changed yours.