"If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."
Chinese Proverb
Developing leaders and managers takes time. There is no fast track, there are "no two ways around it", it just takes time to develop good managers and leaders.
"While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting." -
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus
To develop leaders and managers, it takes the following:
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Related: 4 Key Questions to Build Your Team
If you are responsible for developing leaders and managers, be the kind of mentor to put them in situations to grow new skills that meet the needs of the people, the situation and expectations. Be the sounding board to learn how to make effective decisions in new and challenging situations. Remember open ended questions are your ally and will develop them faster. It takes courage, patience, belief, wisdom and foresight to develop leaders.
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
Stephen King
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