Leadership Is A Skill.

We can debate all day whether there are born leaders or if someone can learn to lead. But I would say, even if you are born to lead, anyone who wants to lead needs to learn to lead. After all, you might have the natural ability to throw a 100 mile an hour fast ball, but if you don’t spend time learning to deliver that ball over a small box that’s 90 feet away, you’ll never have a career in the Majors.

Just like learning how to back flip a Q-TIP trust, or write a direct mail piece that causes money to rain from your mailbox, if you want to lead, you need to put yourself in situations where you can study and practice leadership.

So your career move this week? If you want to lead, then learn how. Sign up for a class, ask your boss about some “on the job” training or find a coach or a mentor. Regardless of how you decide, remember that leadership takes learning, and before long, you could be leading in the Major Leagues.