ARE YOU CHOOSING LEADERSHIP OR 'LIKERSHIP'?
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 8:07AM 
Everyone likes to be liked. Some will say they don't care, but I don't believe them. We feel better when people like us.
One of the biggest challenges of leadership is making the right decisions, even if that means that people won't like us. If you are making decisions primarily so that people will keep liking you, you are most likely making the wrong decisions and losing respect at the same time.
"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off'.
US General Colin Powell
Leaders who choose 'likership' will feel warm and fuzzy, that everyone thinks they're a great guy. They will have followers but not for the right reasons. You don't want people to support you only because they like you. You want support because they respect you and what you are doing.
You may not like to hear this, but leadership takes courage, lots of it. The courage to do things, every day, that you don't want to. Like making decisions that you know are right, but you also know that people aren't necessarily going to like them. You make them anyway. You choose leadership.
Go for respect first, like second, every time.
leadership, likership 
Reader Comments (1)
No one is born bad..americans are taling about the leadership like the monster , but what makes them bad is what they are after. ( and this is my opinion on the subject of course) Think about it how many people have gone there and changes have become immediately . But I still thinkg and believe that there are good people , who are doing good even now and they maybe a few but there are . The SO Ltd. and https://www.pinterest.com/joyceaboussie/ are pure example in my eyes of course.
Hope this helped everyone.