Leadership qualities of the lord Buddha

The Buddhas leadership was to uncover the truth and not to hide it.

It does not matter whether the truth is

bitter, a true leader genuinely faces it rather than runs away from it.

Then he preach nothing but the truth.

 You do not need a leader to

take a sip of water from flowing river.

A person who float

downstream with the water is also not called a leader.

A person who swim upstream

is indeed a leader.
That is what the Buddha did

to find the truth of life.

 The Buddha first attained

the Buddhahood after long struggle and then only he asked others to follow his path.

A true leader never preach

without himself experiencing it firsthand.

 Buddha never preached

others to follow or impose rules without himself abide by those first.

For example before his

disciples were asked to restrain from eating in the evenings (vikalabojana) , Buddha himself had been following that for long period.

 Buddha never mere preach

and asked only others to act.

In order to restrain

violent beings like Alavaka or animals like Nalagiri, the Buddha himself took the leadership.

 Great teachers always teach

others what he has experienced and understood.

Within every leader, there is

a great teacher.
The Buddha is the greatest

leader and the teacher of all time.

 A petty bogus leaders are

filled with fear, suspicion and jealousy. A true leader is someone with compassion and he always protect others at hard times. A great leader enjoys his subordinates success. The Buddha helped all his followers to win over suffering and protected against endless suffering of sansara.

 Lot of leaders arrogantly think

that their followers must talk to them.

But the Buddha, always talk

first (pubbe basitha) when he meet someone.

Great leaders are never

arrogant in front of his followers or subordinates.

 Buddha is a genuine leader. He had no tricks or hidden

tactics of management.
Therefore, the Buddha always

confidently look straight onto the face of people he is talking to.

Qualities of a good leader: Moses

FORESIGHT

Moses (Our example of typical leader from the Bible) had foresight from the way he asked good questions in the wilderness, on the Mountain of God in Horeb

HUMILITY

Moses was very humble and the signs he showed were a measure of his humility The Story of Moses and Pharaoh can somehow be likened to pride versus humility Pharaoh was proud, Moses was humble Even the Bible says Moses was the meekest man on the earth, far above all others living on the face of the earth

Knowing How To Use Good Men

This can be seen in the way he urged his brother in law (Hobab) to follow them to the promised land

We should note the clever way in which Moses urged him to follow the Israelites, not first telling Hobab his experience and knowledge in the wilderness would be useful

DELEGATION

Moses listened to his Father-in-law and appointed 12 men from each tribe to look after the ration

and
Equal distribution of food to the people of Israel

CARING

This can be seen when he intercedes with GOD to provide food to the hungry people of Israelites

OBEDIENCE

He obeyed The GOD in providing water for the people by striking the rock and water was flowing from it

We can clearly see that he was responsible for the Human Resource as well

CONCLUSION

Moses represents to us, one in a long line of reluctant leaders of the Jewish nation, raised in luxury and with the finest schooling of the time. We might say that Moses was born to be a leader, if not that then certainly made into one by the circumstances of his upbringing. Moses however displays not the qualities of a Pharaoh, a strong hand and often times oppressive leadership, but a quality we look for in all leaders, servant hood.

Every leader is a follower, every follower is a human being, every human being is the person next to you

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