Leadership serves as a state meant for guarding,
guiding, nursing, controlling, directing and managing related affairs. It therefore
requires exceptional principles that make the leader different in skill-ability,
power-control and dimensional concepts. These principles create a wide
intellectual gap between the leader and the followers in terms of conflict
resolution, social intervention and the like.
From a perfect leader, much and many more factors,
skills, qualities and principles are required. Three (3) out of the numberless
significant principles on which leadership operates are simplified and follows:
Ø Wisdom
Ø Power
Ø Love
Wisdom:
Wisdom is the application of knowledge
obtained from training, learning and education. You may know, but may not
apply; that is not wisdom because wisdom does not hide its body in merely
knowing something. It is putting what you know into practice that tells if you
are wise. Wisdom also tells the difference between right and wrong and chooses
right for the unfailing leader. When asked to make a choice, King Solomon chose
wisdom because he believed that is a source of direction and control in the
state he was supposed to serve.
Power:
Since the time God created human being, he
deposited a power coast in them. He did not put that power there to be used by
people especially leaders to be used to bully others. Rather, He expected the
power in the human to be used to do greater and bigger things in fulfillment of
His purpose. That’s what Ephesians 3:20 said, “…to do exceedingly, abundantly
above all that we ask or think, according to the POWER that works in us. The role
of power in unfailing leaders is to make them do exceeding things, far beyond
imagination, not to sabotage others and mock their failures.
Love:
When asked to vote between faith, hope and
love, Apostle Paul boldly thumbed “LOVE”. This I guess he meant to say; “love,
all the way, no challenger!” Love makes you to do unto others what you expect
them to do to you. It you don’t want to be suppressed, oppressed, depressed and
compressed, just don’t go into doing those same things against any other folk. Note
the words of Christ; “Love your neighbor as yourself”. Love is a rock on which
cordial relationship can flourish between a leader and his followers.
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