Learn from the birds: Leadership lessond

Many around us take "leadership" as an excuse to enforce things on people, enjoy unlimited privileges, practice authority on others and somehow take leadership as a "gift from God" to justify being there in the ivory towers up and away from the others.


There are many great lessons of true, effective and successful leadership that we can learn from observing what is going around us as in the case of geese crossing incredible distances in their popular V-shape formations

• By flying in "V " formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.=>People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.
• Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front.
  =>If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those who are heading in the same as we are.
• When the lead goose gets tired, he rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point. 
  => It pays to take turns doing hard jobs, with people or with flying geese.
• These geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. 
  => We need to be careful what we say when we honk from behind.
• Finally, when a goose gets sick, or is wounded by gunshot, and falls out, two geese fall out of formation and follow him down to help and protect him. They stay with him until he is either able to fly or until he is dead, and then they launch out on their own or with another formation until they catch up with their group.