Self Check, What are you?

What makes a man successful?

The ability to fulfil any assigned tasks, soaring career, highly appointed, highly paid, self satisfaction, good working relations ?? There are many factors to define success but is a successful man automatically equates to a good leader?
Not necessarily, to be successful, easiest way is to do well in school, get a respectable degree, work smart, get yourself a job with a potential career advancement path, perform well at work, ie complete all assigned tasks, good showmanship to superior, don't commit any major mistakes (which includes defying superiors even though you think its crap). Follow these guidelines and generally you shd mostly probably be on the right path to career success unless you have a face that invites beating...

What makes a good leader?

A good leader on the other hand, might not be as successful as those who pursues the road to pure success. A leader, leads... mainly believes in a set of principles, ability to lead his team and in turn gain respect and acknowledgment from his team. These qualities don't come by default. Its a recognition that is presented to the leader by his team over time through the many thick and thin, how the leader manages crisis, how important does his team mean to him. Note this: "how important does his team mean to him" Personally for me, i believe strongly that this is the main factor the makes or break leadership. You can have your set of principles and stick to them bluntly, you can have lousy inter-personal relation skills, you don't have to suck up to your superior, and of course you will need to achieve the level of skills that you, at your level would be required of. Paramount to all these, one must sincerely put the welfare of his team as priority. No matter how sucky a person you can be, as long as the team senses that you care... time will resolve any resentment that arises initially. Over time, a good leader will gain a closely knitted and efficient crew(as morale works wonder), friends and sense of achievement.

What will you choose?

There's a new breed surfacing in the recent decade known as "Elites", these breed are normally highly educated, extremely self opinionated and proud insects. These insects normally operates not by experience but by knowledge obtained by their countless years of studies, theories, formulaes, visualisation and CRAP. CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP !!!!
To them, no one matters, as long as the high and mighty "ME" thinks this can work, it shall work, does my men's opinion matters to "ME"? erm.... nope... i don't think so. If they were so smart, why am i higher qualified? So am i straining the team with all these additional implementations and whatever i ideas that i come up with? ermmm..... nope, don't care i don't feel its straining them till max. OF COZ NOT YOU MORON!!! YOU DAMN ELITES ARE NOT THE ONE DOING IT!!! Better pray the world forever revolves blindly around paper qualifications or 1 day you will find yourselves reaping what you sow for being empty vessels.

So back to the question, being successful or being a good leader, what will you choose?