hey i need help just wrote a schoalship speech on leadership id like some people to comment and help

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say "We have done this ourselves"." Lao Tzu this is what leadership means to me, going to the people, living with them learning as much from them as they lean from you, pushing them forward to accomplish tasks that will benefit the for the long run. Standing far enough into the background that they have the opportunity to work for themselves but close enough to help them grow from their mistakes. Today that is what I'm going to discuss leadership what it is, what it means to me, and what it means to be a good leader. What is leadership? Is leadership just simply the act of leading a group of people, or is it something more? Is It standing up for a minority because no one else will? Is it being first to raise your hand in class or pushing a friend into singing in the school talent show and helping her over come her fears? Tom Landry once said Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. And I agree with this every part but leadership is so much more. leadership can not be just simply defined for each person there is a different definition as well their should be but on thing is commonly known leadership is the ability to point people in the direction that they ought to be going in. as Henry Miller once said the real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. What does leadership mean to me? As I said before each individual person needs to have there own definition of leadership, because it in itself is different to each person. This idea this quality this value is so important but how can it be important to every one person with a generic definition if each person is different. It cant, so what is leadership to me? Well for me leadership is going off of the well paved road and creating a path through the tall grass, and even if others don't follow your positions or ideas its standing up anyway and not backing down just because someone doesn't agree with you as Henry A. Kissinger says A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. Leadership is about is about going and showing others a new path but it is also the ability to help others grow into who they want to become being able to stand in the back ground when needed and being able step up and take control. For me leadership is not a job or a title its not something that your born with or something that someone can simply teach you it is an abstract quality that many can obtain but very few posses. But what does make a leader and how can we become one? Well that brings me to my next point. What is a good leader? Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Ross Perot A leader can inspire people to go and change the world but a bad leader is that who manipulate and change the people into something that the leader sees fit. Manipulating people is not good leadership, Manipulation and management leads to things like arguments, fighting, war, and even genocide. Any leader that leads a group of people this way is not a good leader. A good leader should inspire others to do something great. A leader takes people where they ought to be. In the words of Rosalyn Carter A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. A Great leader has the capability of changing a third world country into a great nation however they are able to take each daily task and treated as if it was the same. Helen Keller once said I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. That is the job a good leader as well to take the tedious with the mighty and to inspire people to move forward not just with their words but their actions. So what have I said today I've discussed what leadership is, and how each individual person has a definition of their own, I have showed you what leadership means to me and what my definition is how its being in the foreground when needed and also background. And I believe I have shown what it is and isn't to be a good leader. Lao Tzu said Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say "We have done this ourselves".