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leaders, such as Zivko Mukaetov, who encourages the team and is open even The goal of any successful leader
continued to develop the business by for difficult and unpleasant conversa- is to use his/her exceptional
meeting more ambitious goals than tions. intellectual and leadership
the predecessors. capacities in motivating and
On the third level of leadership, peo- developing as many of the
The position in the business world ple follow because of what we have
implies a number of risks: one can eas- done for the organization. Leadership employees as possible in order to
ily fall into the trap of being identified is in higher gear. It is this level that reach a higher level
only by the position that they hold; separates those that fill in a leadership
due to the authority of the position, position from those who are true lead-
one may attempt to devalue the peo- ers. True leaders intercept reality and
ple from the team; to seek to control make things happen. They can make
the organization just in order to keep a serious impact in the organization,
the position rather than to contribute because they are highly motivated
to its development, and finally, the and achieve great results. They create
risk is to stay there at the top - alone a development impetus and winning
and without a real team. An anecdote work environment. In such a setting,
from the time ofsocialism says that it is easier to attract other productive
when the manager wanted to reveal individuals. Steve Jobs, the famous
his/her most serious competitors in entrepreneur and founder of „Apple“
the company he/she heralded a resig- stressed on several occasions that he
nation, although he/she had no inten- himself interviewed more than 5,000
tion to do so. When competitors took candidates, because he was highly in-
the courage to show their ambitions, terested in the future human resourc-
he/she degraded them to indecently es of the company. One of the reasons
low positions in the hierarchy. why he often visited prestigious univer-
sities as a lecturer was to discover new
On the second level of leader- talents for his company.
ship people follow you because they
themselves want to. Leadership ba- The fourth level of leadership is the
sically denotes influence and this is commitment to the development of hu-
the first step in that direction. When man resources. People follow because
a business leader manages to rise to of what we have done for them person-
the second level, then the employees
are motivated to demonstrate other
initiatives, apart from carrying out
their tasks. They start to follow the
example of the business leader. The
leader begins to influence the peo-
ple through the human behavior, not
through the position. But you cannot
influence someone, if you are con-
fronted on many issues. When people
see that someone cares about them
and believes in them, they‘re start-
ing to cooperate with the leader, but
also among themselves. Followers
give permission to the leader to lead
them. The leader now does not use
only rules to manage the people. He
or she knows how to concentrate on
listening to them and learning from
them. They know that the door of the
business leader is open for coopera-
tion, ideas and complaints. The leader

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