When starting a business you must decide what kind of leader you are and what kind of leader you want to be.
There are leaders who lead through intimidation and leaders who lead by inspiration.
A leader who intimidates makes his/her people feel smaller in intellect and spirit. Like cogs in a machine, hoping the machine will roll to victory and carry them along in the process. Hitler or Mussolini are examples of such leaders.
A leader who inspires their people will educate and grow the spirits of those who follow them. Think of the Dahlia Lama, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and so many more.
Your mission is to decide the type of leader you want to be.
In my experience corporate environments use intimidation because they want to create robots who will simply follow, no matter what the situation. They seek to create worker bees, employees, drones who don't try to rise above their station.
The military is built upon rules and regulations, but is also very adept at creating leaders.
One man cannot expertly navigate the many facets of a military organization. Instead the military creates leaders and then trusts those leaders to do what is best for the mission.
Image the power of your business if you focused on creating leaders rather than robots.
That’s why I wrote 8 Military Lessons in Leadership for Entrepreneurs.
This book focuses on cultivating your core strengths and leadership skills… because successful entrepreneurs must be leaders.
To making life better,
Robert Kiyosaki
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