Leadership is a verb, not a noun. It is an attribute that can be defined by what we do, not by the role we assume. While it is important to be a good manager, it is even more so to be a good leader. This is because managers manage within paradigms while leaders create new paradigms.

	Going By The Book
	Get The Basics Right
	The School Of Hard Knocks

Whether we choose to focus on our problems or our possibilities is a key leadership issue. Leadership means accepting responsibility for our choices in life. Leaders realise that it is choice more than chance that determines their circumstances.

We all need to be leaders, regardless of our formal title or role. This starts with inner self-leadership and moves outward to influence, support, and lead others. Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It's about ordinary people bringing forth the best from themselves and others, through rediscovering their inner selves. Our focus and context are shaped by three vital questions: where am I going? (the vision); what do I believe in? (the principles and values) and; why do I exist? (the purpose or mission). The answer to these questions is vital. Because leadership isn't just what we do, it's something that we are, which then drives what we do.

One must realise that the popular goals of security, stability, and predictability can be deadly. The closer we get to these, the more our growth will be stunted. True security comes from constant growth and development, based on regular reflection and renewal.

To sum up, a leader is one who can create a culture where people dream, imagine, collaborate, invent, experiment and most importantly, deliver.