A young associate asked me one evening,"Why do you keep sending me leadership quotes via SMS when I am not a leader?" This young man is neither a supervisor nor a manager.
The word leader is a misnomer. You do not need a title to lead people. As John Maxwell puts it, "Leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less."
If you influence a parent, you influence a family; if you influence a child, you influence a life; if you influence an employee, you influence a company; if you influence a leader, your influence their followers.
In other words, anyone who influences is a leader. Perhaps a good question to ask would be "as an influencer am I a good leader?
