Being a leader is better than a follower. |
"Be a head of snake rather than a tail of dragon". This is famous Korean saying emphasizing the importance of being a leader. Like the saying explicating, I strongly believe that being a leader in any kind of organizations has many advantages over being a follower.
First, being a leader gives us more opportunities to experience something new and challenging and makes us have more positive attitudes. For instance, I was a common worker in a large coporation a few years ago. I worked very hard. However, because I was just one of the common workers in the coporation, I didn't have many responsibilities and I just tried to share every tasks I had to perform. However, over time, I discovered that I confined myself to routines and literally my personality became a sort of timid, reluctant, hesitant and pessimistic and even I didn't try a new thing to improve myself. Sometime later, I quit the job and I started my own job. The result? I found myself that I was trying to do a job that I had never tried before. As a result, the shy character turned into the more challenging and optimistic. It was not long before I found myself doing something cempletely new so this led to what I am today, totally different from what I used to be. I now have more wide and a variety experiences than before.
Second, being a leader is good way of recognizing what are responsibilities and how we have to deal with problems. For example, when I was in the large corporation, I did not feel I have many things I am in charge of, so I did not care much about how I would handle some problems. One day, I made a huge mistake. I sent a wrong email messge to a buyer, even worse, there was really important information with reference to prices of goods in the email. As you may know, the original prices are the most confidential matter that has the priorities over others. How stupid! I did not know what to do, so all I did at that time was just enlist the help of my boss. I was literally nobody in terms of a mistake, although I was totally responsible for the matter. It was not long before I knew that how I should have solved the matter. Maybe it was impossible for me to know the way how I had to solve the matter unless I started my own business later. As such, being a leader an organization, however it may be humble, let people experience many different things.
To sum up, I think being a leader has many benefits for these reasons. Sometimes, we can not notice the hidden aspect of the philosophy, but as time goes by, you will recognize the strong points that is essential part of our lives we live by. |