True Leadership is not Fault-finding, but Problem-Solving

   Many, when they become leaders, assume their position means they are there to judge people, to correct people and to put people in their place.
   Not so.
   Oh, it is good to correct things. Yes, that is leadership. But if you would be a leader, do not seek the faults of others, just to be running up a score of how many errors you can find. Do not think that is your job. The word "leader" implies that you lead them away from their faults. True leaders only seek faults so they can correct them, not so they can condemn those who have them.
   If you get people to change, that is leadership. Leadership is not tallied by how many faults you find in people, but by how many faults you take out of them.
  It could be said the leader who finds a fault, but simply fires the person or condemns that person, is not a leader at all, for the word "leader" implies leading them to do things right. Managers fire. Leaders correct. Perhaps more correctly stated, managers who don't know how to lead, fire. True leaders, instead of firing, inspire those under them to become better.
   Leadership is not fault-finding, but problem-solving.
(Note: This is a rework of a blog originally written in 2011.)