Who is a born leader

The first leadership attribute is aggression or vigour. It is about being charismatic, innovative and firebrand.
We should learn to adopt the aggression of infants because an infant is the most powerful human being on Earth.
They demand with full aggression (vigour) what exactly they want and they get exactly what they want. And when they have exactly what they want, they are fully satisfied with exactly what they have.
Vigour is an important leadership attribute and yet many leaders don’t have it.
Vigour is the stimuli that drives leaders to see beyond the horizon, beyond the walls of doubt and into the future.
It eggs leaders on to be vocal and vibrant, and it enables them to see and live into the future.
It is the one attribute that has made the great powerful leaders whom web have seen in history.
For instance, Sir Iambuckey Okuk, when he was civil aviation minister, went ahead before a National Executive Council approval and bought Air Niugini an aircraft from Singapore.
When the NEC asked him why he did that, he replied that the answer was always going to be a “yes”, so he was only actioning the answer.
The second important leadership attribute is risk-taking. Leadership is about taking risks and facing them head-on.
Risk-taking is about thinking positively and acting positively. To a risk-taker, nothing is impossible but everything is workable and achievable, like the saying, “Where there is a will, there is a way”.
In other words, risk-taking is about exercising our willpower. It is about striving and sacrificing against all odds to seek the answer or solution.
For instance, the Shaolin monks know that only 5 per cent of our brain capacity is used. Through meditation, they can utilise 15 per cent of their brain. The only animal that uses 25 of its brain capacity is the dolphin which it uses for its sonar system.
Everyone has willpower.
Leaders, too, have willpower and if they can utilise more than 5 per cent of their brain capacity, we will see systems made more effective and efficient, hunger and poverty eliminated, and safety and security made robust.
But, sadly, the leaders do not make the most of their willpower
and therefore cannot take advantage of their risk-taking potential.
Wisdom is another leadership attribute.
To be the shepherd of the nation
is a huge responsibility because it is about guiding, directing or creating better pathways towards greener pastures.
It is about serving the need of the people in a sustainable, lucrative and tangible way.
Like a shepherd is to the sheep, a leader’s chief business is the people.
A shepherd leads with a rod which symbolises wisdom, and wisdom is the basis of leadership responsibility.
These attributes coexist as leadership principles.
They are like a seed trapped within us – the seed of vigour, risk-taking and wisdom. But this seed needs the right environment to sprout and grow.
You are that environment and if you cultivate it right, it will surely sprout and grow and make you a good leader.

Gopics Proverbs,
Sipiga, Goroka