“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.”
– Ross Perot
A leader with a loving mind is at the intersection of Visions and Values. Leadership Love stands for something – Vision and Stands on something – Values. The core values of a man communicate who he is and the source of his vision.
Love without clear vision is deceit. Love without clear values of dos and don’ts will break trust and eventually fall apart. And the Leadership Love will be destroyed.
A life with vision and no values would not make it to the destination. Values protect the vision and the visionary. Any results of eternal worth must be achieved with ethical principles.
Dedication to noble values and high standards transforms a leader and their leadership experiences. Values brings credibility and it’s the source of the moral force that fuels trust in leadership. This is backbone of the idealized influence enjoyed by a transformational leader.
James Allen in his book as a man thinketh from 1903 said “People are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain in bondage” and he also said, “Those who give little accomplish little; those who give much accomplish much; those who give the most become the greatest”.
Humans may succeed by chance, but it takes more to become great. Greatness comes with consistent sacrifices, and the more price you pay, the more the reward of greatness.
The growth in love is from internal to external. The internal loving mind must grow from childishness to adulthood (Mastery, Maturity, and Full-grown Man). The thinking and reasoning in a loving mind must be cultured and cultivated to yield more excellent result.
Once you open your mouth to speak, you tell the world who you are, meaning you tell us the excellence of your thinking, the strength of your reasoning, the attitude of your vision, and ideals that defines your values.
A loving mind always have a life plan which Is call “Continuous Permanent Personal Development”.
True love grows, it grows in your mind, true love rule your desires, it forces those desires down the path of patience and the development of your capacity to reason. True love causes you to engage in the Active management of your life. You cannot live carelessly.
You must develop your capacities for the following areas of life from childhood, if you are truly a loving mind with genuine capacity to provide true love:
- Augmented spiritual sensitivity based on fellowship
- Increasing intellectual inspiration, stimulation, and motivation
- Robust emotional intelligence and management
- Improving physical stamina and strength
- Strict rules for wealth formulation and risk taking with finances
- Social and communal relationship management.
- And the above are signs of personal growth and transformation.
A loving mind must grow from socialization to the ability to lead improvements, innovations, and transformation. This is when you qualify in the arena of love. Especially the love that can lead to transformation.
Dr.Joshua Kolawole (MD, MBA, MASc., FISQua, CPHQ, PMP) Agile Program Manager & Transformational Leadership Expert, Valdymas Intelligence LLC
