Meaning is a prerequisite for leadership
- Sotiris Spyrakopoulos
- Dec 6, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
Do you know who are the ones who have a basic requirement for becoming good leaders?
They are those who passionately want to see whatever it is they have undertaken to succeed. Not for the glory of recognition, but because they deeply believe that their mission is meaningful and useful to many.
Leaders who find deeper and broader (to include many others) meaning in their mission:
They yearn, and therefore find a way, to inspire their passion and belief that "it can be done and it's worth it" to their partners and teams.
They understand that they can’t do it alone, on the contrary, they need everyone and they need them in their best abilities. Therefore, they are anxious for everyone to be in mental, intellectual and physical readiness.
They always see the “goal” clearly and do not get lost in the distractions and “noise” of everyday life. On the contrary, they are always the beacon in the fog and the storm, for everyone.
They want to be surrounded by smarter and more capable people but at the same time they want to be worthy and useful. Therefore, they constantly improve, listen, read and learn from everyone.
They don’t allow anyone to occupy their team with gossip, malice, pessimism, fears, misery, or other irrelevant matters. They consider it their personal responsibility to be the guardians of the culture and the watchdogs against toxicity. This is because they know that toxicity absorbs the focus of energy on the mission and puts its success in immediate danger.
All of these potential leaders are not necessarily “romantic” people, nor do they have self-sacrificing tendencies. On the contrary, they have personal ambitions and can enjoy personal successes when these come.
However, the best of them only work on things (projects, companies, products, brands, social causes, etc.) that they truly believe are important to the many. And if they happen to tackle something that doesn’t seem that way to them at first, if they are going to continue, they will make sure to transform it into something meaningful.
