Virtue Series 4: THE PLACE OF FIRM RESOLVE IN LEADERSHIP.



Ever taking time to study the environment where a lily grows? Or the life of a pig?
You will notice something similar with these two illustrations. Irrespective of how dirty and miry the clay or the surrounding maybe, even when the debris are stinking and concentrated, the Lily springs forth out of firm resolve not only to survive, but to be NEAT. The Pig doesn’t care how regular you wish to bath it. In fact, it doesn’t care about how many miles away you had to travel to get the water. It could be humble enough and considerate in letting you clean her up, but she has a resolve that supersedes patience to always be a PIG – Dirty!

As a leader, you are saddled with the responsibility to guide a group of people in achieving a given task. In the course of this journey, there will always be distractions and side attractions that will question your passion, and want to deviate you from the track. How will you handle them? There will be times when you will face oppositions that aim at denting your image, getting you take irrational decisions with grave consequences. Abandoning the right thing for trivial pop-ups. What will your response be?

There are times when saying the truth will appear detrimental to your success. Compromising your stance will appear to be the best diplomatic option for success. When going against ethical and moral principles will appear the best bet for inclusion and acceptance in a higher pedestal of influence. Will you trade your integrity for anything?

A leader without firmness of Resolution will lose his integrity and crumble into pieces that may not be easily fixed up. Having a firm resolve makes you true to your words, reliable and trustworthy. It makes you rational in analyzing information for success. It saves you the regrets that comes with multiple suggestions that drifts you way from the truth. A leader with a firm resolve weights suggestions on the balances of his Aims and Objectives before taking decision. He finds his decisions always in line with the mission and vision statement of his course. He is not easily blown away by the intelligence and sophistication of a suggestion that is only a facade at close analysis.

Having a firm resolve in leadership doesn’t entail stifling the creative contributions of the followers. No!!! It does not promote autocracy in leadership, in fact that is rulership. It does not shut up the led from giving suggestions that will advance the course. It does not take away the place of flexibility in leadership. It rather makes a leader to be critical in analyzing suggestions and ensuring trivialities does not change or affect the successful achievement of goals. It makes the leader and the led pay attention to details, set their eyes on the goal, and remain focused until it is attained. Alfred North Whitehead said "True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason",

A resolved mind is limitless and 99% more successful that an easily distracted leader.

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