You don't gain your stature from the seat you sit in. No, to show your stature, you must stand. You must rise out of your seat and speak out. To have position and power means nothing if you are a a person who sits. Be instead, a person who stands, for anyone can act, whether they have position or power or not. It is what you do, and not who your are, that displays your greatness.
Ir is not your seat, but the ability to be independent of it, that gives you greatness. You must decide what is right in deciding what to do. Decide what is right and then give voice to that rightness. If you choose, instead, to only to take an action offered because of the powers you have, you may leave undone that which takes no special powers at all. The correctness of action comes not from power, but from the willingness to do what is right. Select your actions from what is right, and not the seat you sit in, and you will be a true leader, rather than just one in name only.
No comments:
Post a Comment