Leaders are Born not made.

I was attending a course sent by my company and the facilitator named John Teo was great to watch. He was a skillful magician and the course was a 2 days break from work. I was a thorn among roses well not exactly roses, i was the only guy among 20 odds ladies. Had a great time with the aunties thru-out the 2 days thou.

One of the discussion ended up with me standing and xpresssing my views that i believed leaders are born & not made. John disagree, thereafter i xpress a specific niche on leaders such as LKY. Ah-ha, what im seeking here is the charismatic leader whom is natural rather than nurture. Whom got talents in-built under certain conditions/enviroments will pop out to be a great man. He knew where i'm coming from but he's adament that leaders can be made.

That evening i went home the thought keeps coming back. Is there such a thing post made-leader? someone without the necessary skills but could be taught? Hmm... i brainstorm a little and i'm always the person looking on the BIG picture. So i came out with this little theory of mine. The world is made up of continents and continents are made up of countries and so on and so forth. Any society with have organisations and any organisation will have a definite hierachy structure. So the thing is no matter what, a simple organisation will have a top man(CEO) and the general Clerk. In between there's a whole spectrum of ranks and if you are seated high in the pyramid u will be incharge of more personnel. So there's no such thing as a trained leader, this fake leader is a manufactured idea by the organisation. First of all they create this position because hierachy exist and there's a need for rank struture. But they are never true leaders because they exist due to a need in hierachy. They exist for the bureaucrats and the only function they have is CONTROL. Unfortunately i had witness a real scenario where the top man resign for greener pasture and someone from the bottom would take over. He is at the right place at the right time? you bet.... LEADERs r Born... not MADE...