Who Is A True Leader? Trump? Obama?

TRUE LEADERS ARE BORN, NOT MADE

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Ranjit Singh Thind

Passionate Writer | English Trainer using Structural Approach | Author on right4education

They say leaders are made. This is the greatest delusion ever concocted by man. Any leader who is worth his salt is a born leader. Society presents circumstances that enable one to be fashioned or moulded into a leader. That’s the greatest contribution of society to mankind – it identifies a leader from its surroundings.

A distinction has to be made between true leaders and quack leaders. True leaders know that they are born for a purpose. Society is their laboratory. They experiment and display various leadership skills which benefit society as a whole.

There are also true leaders who are a bane to society. They mask themselves as autocrats, dictators and demagogues. Aren’t they born leaders? Hitler is a case in point. He whipped German society into accepting and carrying out his nefarious activities unto the world. The world nearly came to a standstill watching his atrocities.

Autocrats and dictators who have a complete sway consider society as their playground. Citizens are pawns in a great game of chess - the ‘chess of life’. Use one pawn against another to silence opposition or kill foes. The majority are ‘slaves’ or compliant individuals ever ready to do their biddings. Disgruntled and dismayed individuals utter disenchantment and anger only in private.

Good leaders are hard to find. When society collapses, it naturally looks towards a true leader who can save it from its malady. The appearance of this type of leader is mostly in a time of crisis as society has been ‘ripened’ to accept true leadership.

Quack leaders are aplenty in the world today. They have this foolish notion that they are true leaders. But they don’t seem to lead their stated industry in any new form or ideas. Most of it is just picking up from what their predecessors have been doing.

A born leader is possessed with originality of thought. Thoughts that create more benefits to society. Thoughts that inspire and teach others to do the same. Thoughts that jolt others to rethink the usefulness of their present worth.

Most of all, a born leader is imbued with unbounded courage to stick to his views and actions decisively.

Quack leaders are the opposite. They follow the trends of society. They don’t want to upset society from its continual slumber. Contrary and sincere opinions are dangerous. That will mean a dip in their earning power and influence. ‘Just do what others do.’ is their motto.

Quack leaders have a semblance of courage. Appearing to be courageous, they promote their ideas in the form of advice or suggestions. That’s about it. Nothing of great value actually. Follow the norm and everything is fine. These are some of the hallmarks of quack leaders. Can’t you see these quack leaders peddling their wares everywhere?

Leadership institutes are set up to study the art and science of leadership. Investigations as well as studies are made into ‘how’ and ‘why’ leaders behave as they do; furthermore of what qualities leaders are made of. Studies and findings are compiled for posterity.

The hard truth is that nobody ‘really’ knows how and why leaders behave as they do. Nobody can explain who is a leader from a follower. There are no scientific explanations for discovering and choosing a true leader. At best, only patterns of certain behavioural tendencies exhibited by these leaders are established through these findings.

True leaders spring from every nook and cranny of society. There is no set model to determine which direction they are coming from.

This Is What A Leader Does. We Are Tired Of Followers Pretending To Lead

Obama Viewed Less Favorably Worldwide

Even though he has bent over backwards to show the world that he is different, Obama's leadership favorablity rating has dropped worldwide. It proves the axiom that one must be true to your beliefs or people will think that you are a faker.   

As the world sees Obama's damage the leadership of the United States, it should be noted that they think  he is not the leader many thought he would be.  A job performance  drop over 10% in the past year (when measured by respondents in 116 countries) and much higher in Japan and Greece for example, is not a indicator of good leadership.  

We believe that he either has no core values or has hidden them from view due to how negatively Americans would view them. Either way, he comes off as someone who is disingenuous. 

Ronald Reagan had beliefs that many on the left viewed negatively, however, he lived those core ideas on a daily basis. He knew who he was and what he stood for and proudly trumpeted his beliefs when anyone would listen.  Obama does not. 

Obama, the uniter has become, Obama the divider. He divides us up like a cherry pie. He pits rich verses poor, religious against non-religious and white verses black verses brown. His policies destroys the middle class while he tries to extol their virtues. His advisers don't pay their taxes, yet he demands we all pay more. He bows to foreign leaders. He sends billions to Brazil to develop their oil fields and stops drilling here. He gave sweetheart deals to his union friends in the GM and Chrysler "bankruptcy" while destroying bankruptcy laws. He promised the Russians that he has more "flexibility" after the elections. We could continue on, but the list would be too long.

The world is catching on. Obama is not the man he sold America on in the 2008 elections.   Will US citizens wake up and sweep him from office?  We can only hope so.

Conservative Tom

Obama’s Leadership Losing Luster Abroad, Poll Shows

By Patrick Goodenough

April 20, 2012

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As a presidential candidate, then Senator Barack Obama received a rapturous welcome when visiting Berlin, Germany in July 2008. A new poll finds that median approval for U.S. leadership under President Obama across 116 countries dropped from 47 percent to 43 percent between 2010 and 2011 (AP Photo/File)

(CNSNews.com) – People in many parts of the world viewed U.S. leadership under President Obama less favorably in 2011 than they did a year earlier, with a new poll showing Egypt, Argentina, Serbia and Iran accounting for the lowest approval rates in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia, respectively.

Only 19 percent of respondents in Egypt, 25 percent in Argentina, eight percent in Serbia and nine percent in Iran said they approved of the “job performance of the leadership of the U.S.” in 2011, according to the U.S.-Global Leadership Project poll, released by Gallup and the Meridian International Center.

Median approval ratings for America’s leadership under Obama across 116 countries surveyed in 2010 and 2011 dropped from 47 percent to 43 percent over that one-year period.

Looking at the period since he became president in 2009, the approval ratings dropped in many of the countries surveyed on all continents – in some cases significantly. The trend is most evident in the Americas, with Africa and Europe close behind.

The biggest declines over the 2009-2011 period were recorded in Slovenia (a 32 point drop since 2009), Mexico (-27 points), Panama (-27 points), Chad (-24 points) and Croatia (-21 points).

Other countries where approval dropped from 2009-2011 include Japan (-20 points), Uruguay (-20 points), Greece (-19 points), Chile (-18 points), Argentina (-17 points), Germany (-17 points), Afghanistan (-16 points), Tanzania (-14 points), Brazil (-14 points), Venezuela (-14 points), Colombia (-14 points), Niger (-14 points), South Africa (-13 points), Spain (-12 points), Egypt (-12 points), Ireland (-12 points), Uganda (-12 points), France (-10 points), India (-10 points), Canada (-10 points) and Kenya (-10 points).

“Although the image of U.S. leadership is showing some cracks in the third year of President Barack Obama’s presidency, it remains more positive worldwide than during the last years of the Bush administration,” the report said. “U.S. leadership ratings in 2011 failed to regain the momentum they lost in 2010, and instead remained static or retreated even more in some places.”

Among the findings of interest for the 2010-2011 period:

In Africa, median approval dropped 10 points, from 84 percent in 2010 to 74 percent last year.

The lowest rates were in North Africa, with Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia all recording less than 40 percent approval. The “Arab spring” revolution did not affect Egypt’s year-on-year scores, while in Tunisia the score rose eight points between 2010 and 2011. Libya, which also underwent a dramatic transition last year, was not among the countries surveyed.

In sub-Saharan Africa, approvals were generally high, ranging from 92 percent in Ghana to 63 percent in Chad.

The biggest drops in approval in Africa between 2010 and 2011 were recorded in Liberia (-25 points), Central African Republic (-21 points), South Africa (-18 points) and Cameroon (-18 points). Accounting for the largest increases in approval over that period were Mauritania and Tunisia (+8 points each).

In the Americas, median approval of U.S. leadership under Obama dropped from 46 percent in 2010 to 40 percent in 2011.

Approval rates of above 50 percent were recorded in only three out of 22 countries surveyed – Haiti, El Salvador and Canada.

Of the rest, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica were at the higher end of the scale, while Argentina and Mexico were at the bottom. Biggest losses in approval were in Panama (-24 points) and Chile (-21 points) while only two countries (Dominican Republic and Honduras) accounted for gains – of just one point each.

In Europe, median approval dropped from 45 percent in 2010 to 42 percent in 2011

U.S. leadership under Obama rated the lowest approval in Serbia, Belarus and Russia, and the highest in Kosovo, Albania and Ireland.

The gulf between approval rates in Kosovo (90 percent) and Serbia (eight percent) “likely reflects U.S. support for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia,” the report noted.

The biggest positive shifts in Europe came from Belgium (+15 points) and Britain (+13 points), while the biggest declines were recorded in Sweden (-15 points), France (-13 points) and Spain (-12 points).

In Asia, median approval of American leadership under Obama dropped slightly, 41 percent in 2010 to 39 percent last year.

Singapore, Cambodia and the Philippines topped the list for high approval rates, while Iran, the Palestinian Authority areas and India were at the low end of the scale.

The biggest drops in approval in Asia between 2010 and 2011 were recorded in Bangladesh (-17 points), Australia (-13 points) and Afghanistan (-12 points). The largest increases in approval over that period were in Cambodia (+11 points) and Pakistan (+8 points).