[Vnbiz] Staying to be a leader

Mon Mar 12 18:59:18 PDT 2007

Hi bro Hoanh & CACC,

This is really great sharing from bro Hoanh.Thanks, bro Hoanh!

Your sharing described the fact that I had faced & found the way to get it
off. My experiece said that we might go in wrong ways before we could get
our unique leadership. Sometime, I got to be a stranger person that
I weren't ever before. So, I needed time to take balance by answer the
question "Who am I?"^__^. I myself belive that I am leading the way that I
am.

Again, thanks my bro!

On 3/13/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear CACC,
>
> This message is for everyone, but its primary audience is the young
> generation.  And it is about leadership.
>
> We often hear "Growing into a leader" to describe the process that a
> person rises in experience and in rank to become a leader eventually.  So,
> they are talking about a process of "growing" or "growing up."  Well, let me
> tell you.  Nothing is further from the truth.  You don't grow into a
> leader.  You stay the way you are to be a leader.
> When we are young, we are energetic, optimistic, honest and fearless. All
> these are the necessary traits to be a leader.
>
> And as we "grow up," we are taught (by teachers, parents, friends ...)
> things like "You have to be smart to live," (meaning, you have to be corrupt
> to live with all the corrupt guys around you), or "A swallow cannot make the
> spring," (meaning, you don't count), or "Don't be so naive.  Grow up!"
> (meaning, learn to lie and cheat), or "Why waste your time?  No body cares,"
> (meaning, be selfish and careless like the rest of the world), and millions
> of other negative talks that bombard our ears and our mind constantly, until
> we "grow up" into a bunch of mediocre, negative, lethargic adults or,
> worse, a bunch of selfish and corrupt "leaders."
>
> So, when we are taught that we will "grow up" into a leader, we are taught
> the wrong thing.  We stay exactly the way we are--energetic, optimistic,
> honest and fearless--in order to become good leader.
>
> The challenge is how to go through life without being defeated by the
> constant negative teachings from life and everyone around us, to keep our
> mind and our heart  exactly the way they are when we are still in high
> school and college.  This is easier talked than done.  Many idealistic and
> talented college students would become negative and lethargic in later
> years.  Keeping the heart of a kid to go through life is the ultimate art,
> which not many can master.
>
> And if you have graduated from college many years ago, chances are you
> don't need to learn anything new, but need UNLEARN all the negative thinking
> you have absorbed over the years, in order to be good leader.
>
> (This reminds me of Jesus saying: "You have to be like little children to
> enter the Kingdom of Heaven" and "The Kingdom of Heaven is in your heart."
> This man is truly the master in the art of managing the human heart!  So, to
> win your ultimate reward, unlearn all the "adult" things and go back to the
> heart of a child).
>
> Please note, I do not suggest that you have to be stupid in life.  You may
> want to know about all the bad things people do, all the clever ways people
> use to trick each other,  all the lies people can think of, all the smooth
> ways to push a corrupt deal.  You want to know them all, so that when you
> walk your ground, you would know where there may be a trap, where there may
> be thorns.  But you
> want to respond to all that with the gentle, loving, honest and fearless
> heart of a child.  Only a true master can do that.  And that master would be
> a great leader.
>
> Have a great day!
>
> Hoanh
>
> PS:  Another note.  "Why do I keep talking about leadership?  How about
> followership?  Not all of us are leader;  Some have to be follower."
> Well, good point.  But, he truth is, WE ALL ARE LEADER.  Everyone of us
> leads someone--our followers, or our students, or our work associates, or
> our children, or our siblings, or our friends in a project.  We all need to
> learn to be good leader.  A good leader is automatically a good follower.  A
> good leader always knows how to "serve" his/her people; s/he is a great
> "servant."  That means, s/he automatically knows how to be a good follower.
> True "leadership" is really "servant/leadership."
>
> --
> Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> Attorney of Law
> Washington DC
>
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