THE PLACE OF WISDOM IN LEADERSHIP

Life is getting complex almost all the time. The more complex it become the more puzzles to be solved. But puzzles can not be solved by mere thinking or wishes. They can only be solved by in-depth knowledge. Likewise, running a successful leadership is a serious task for any leader who really hopes to influence people. But such leaders must know first, that the hardest of God's creation to lead are human beings, not animal. 

This is not to say that humans are unnecessarily stubborn - it is just that somehow, they know what they want, how they want it and when they want it. With this, they certainly will resist anything that looks to them as ' imposition', without their due consent. As for animals, they will just respond positively to any prompting of instruction and direction, no matter how small that might be.

Leading human beings is far more complicated than that. But no matter how complicated, leadership must be see, and rightly adjudged too, to be done in crucial moments of test and trial, which often can make or mar the work of any leader. In doing this, wisdom must be part of the inner internal and external qualities of leaders in order to lead well. 

Here, I define that: wisdom is the ability to make sound and sensible decisions that will ensure good advise, based on acquired experience and knowledge which helps the mind to understand deeply issues and people in leadership. Or simply put – wisdom is the correct application of knowledge, which helps someone to distinguish between right and wrong when deciding on a matter. In searching for wisdom therefore, constant learning is inevitable because the only school you can never graduate from is the school of wisdom(see my work on PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT).

As a leader over people – either in business, ministry, governance, corporation, market, union,school, office or even in the family at home, you must know when and how t behave wisely in times of crucial decisions. Leading and enlisting support of people we are leading is not often by the certificates we possess; the dress we wear; the school we attended; the position we occupy or the shouting we do to make them obey us when it is and not necessary.

To lead well is to know well; and to know well is to do well in discharge of your leadership responsibility. No matter what do, without wisdom you can not do it better. If you are a leader without a sense of wisdom, indirectly you will be led anyway, by the same people he or she claim to be leading. Leadership does not operate in a vacuum. When you are not alive to you responsibility, people you lead will take it over for you. If that happens, then, you have lost your leadership already and you will be at their mercy always before you take take your decisions. 

But if you a leader with sound wisdom, you will always be ahead of the people you lead. Because that will give you profound discretion to use in moment of serious pressure that can not be easily eased off by theories learnt in schools. Wisdom display by you in such frustrating circumstances, will increase the confidence of people you are leading. Lack of wisdom makes leaders foolish, and as such when faced with options, they manifest their ignorance and stupidity in understanding human affairs. A leader who acts foolishly against the exceptions of the people he or she leads, will set the benchmark of leadership backward, seriously.