Shift the focus
We always think that managing others is responsibility.
No!
Serving others is responsibility.
When you become responsible for others, you no longer are focused on yourself. You move towards serving other people. Serving other people is leadership. Shifting your focus from yourself to others is true leadership.
You usually take decisions unconsciously through your past memories and habitual negative patterns. As long as you are caught in your unconscious patterns, you can never achieve the state of a leader. You may achieve the status of a leader, and that too with a lot of and struggle.
Listen: when you sit in the leader's seat after a lot of suffering and struggle, you will create the same suffering and struggle for your subordinates.
True leadership happens as a direct expression of a sense of responsibility. An enlightened being vibrates at the highest frequency of responsibility, because he has experienced himself as the source of everything happening in and around him. That is why an enlightened being can draw millions to himself without effort, and inspire them to follow his teachings just by his mere presence.
It is said that whenever Buddha went out to beg alms, He would appear like a king, and the kings who gave Him alms would appear like beggars! This is the power of taking conscious responsibility.
So work on the state, not the status. Start shifting your energy towards achieving the state of leadership. Only this can make you complete, not the status of a leader.
We always think that managing others is responsibility.
No! Serving others is responsibility.
For the next few days, consciously make efforts to joyfully serve those who serve you. See how it makes you feel. This will make you complete; make you a true leader.