Why don’t most of the small businesses survive? After much research and discussions, I found the answer. Most of them still follow the same old-fashioned leadership techniques – the ‘leadership-myths’. Are you amongst them? If so, then you shouldn’t be!
Leadership myth holds qualified entrepreneurs to achieve success. I believe this myth is something that is assumed to be true but actually it is totally illogical. So, why to follow these false beliefs –
- Education: Many talented entrepreneurs hold themselves as they are not overqualified. Having a professional degree is not a license to become a successful leader. Experience is the greatest degree when it comes to become a leader. When you are placed in the leader’s position, you only have to closely evaluate and gain practical experience through your responsibilities and conflicts.
- Control and manipulation: People think that good leadership is the derivative of coercion, control and manipulation. Many leaders limit their thoughts and aims. A real leader is someone who would dare to aim and achieve a state – which nobody have ever thought of achieving. They are passionate towards their goals and their dreams. They often guide others to follow their footsteps.
- The rank or position: Most people hold themselves as they consider the rank, the position or the title; as the right to be a leader. Every positions role is important and at the same time holds the capacity to excel or destroy the business. That’s hard fact – but a realty. Your effectiveness, ability, performance and actions are the credentials of successful leader.
- Appealing and enigmatic: The market proves that not all leaders are appealing and enigmatic. Some of them have faced severe personal issues in their life and some have personality issue, but still they have climbed the success ladder. The success story lies in working the success path gaining more and more people skills and technical knowledge.
- Leadership quality is a gift: There is one famous myth that leaders are born and not made. But the history contradicts this statement. Leadership is not a day’s work or a birth-right. Anybody who takes time, learns the required skills and gets himself properly trained through trials and errors; can become a successful leader.
Why don’t most of the small businesses survive? After much research and discussions, I found the answer. Most of them still follow the same old-fashioned leadership techniques – the ‘leadership-myths’.