Guyanese men were yesterday urged to accept their roles in society, at a leadership summit that opened at the National Cultural Centre.
Last evening's feature address was delivered by Bahamian writer and motivational speaker Dr. Myles Munroe, who gave a humour packed speech covering various areas of leadership. Leadership, he said, is vision. It is the discovery of a sense of person which then gives that individual a sense of conviction; this sense of conviction leads to a vision that becomes a purpose meant to benefit not just themselves. The world, Munroe stressed, is over-managed and under-led. Leaders, he said, must have a conviction so deep that they are willing to die for it. "Leaders are a strange people...they don't live in the present," Munroe said. "They announce what can be better...they see the future and they take you there."
Munroe, speaking shortly about the Haitian earthquake, said at even in time of crisis when a leader has been left as devastated as his people they still look to him for leadership. "There is crime and corruption," he further said. "We know this and we don't need someone to tell us this. What we need someone to tell us is how to get out of it...this is what leaders do; they provide us with solutions."
How do you know if you are a true leader? Munroe said you are true leader when you have a true vision. How do you know when your vision is true? Any vision that only benefits you, the individual, is not true. "Politicians," Munroe urged referring to his above point, "write this down twice."
There is nothing more dangerous, Munroe stressed, than a person with private ambition in a public office. This, he said, is the seat of corruption and those holders of public office who have personal ambitions are not leaders but leaches.
He urged Acting President Clement Rohee and other "leaders" present to embrace their visions, their passion for what they do.
Source: Sara Bharrat, Stabroek News
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