Purpose of Leadership 1
Mike Ihezuo
I believe most people aspiring for leadership position hardly understand the purpose of leadership. Purpose does of mean OR equal to goals or aim. Purpose is original intent for a thing – the primary reason a thing exist. See, the original function/intent of phone is to send and receive calls though it can be used for other functions like serving as radio, touch, browsing, etc. These secondary assignments are called value-added functions. Same is leadership; the primary function of the leader is mostly forgotten to its oversight function.
The purpose of leadership is authored by the First and the Last, HE who said I WILL LEAD YOU, HE who said, “FOLLOW ME”. The purpose of leadership is ‘not to CONTROL people’ – that could be Management. It is ‘not to organize, divide and rule people’ – that could be governance and headship.
Perhaps you can see why we have problems in leadership – majority who come for leadership come NOT to lead us but to manage us, to rule (subjugate, dominate, subject) us instead of leading us.
Sir, God didn’t make man to manage follow man, and same is for man to subjugate/subject another. He made man to LEAD man in an extension to HIS leading man from ABOVE. Sir, go and ask Human Resources Managers though they answer a misnomer name (human manager); you don’t manage people – you lead people.
