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Leadership is Action, not a position

Leader is a person who triggers and can't be defined as a person who initiates. A large part of being a student is to become a leader. Many strive hard to achieve that and fails. We often define a leader as a guiding individual who is first to initiate an idea or a movement. This video by TED Talks presents an alternative definition of leadership. In the video , the man begins to dance in front of a crowd . Soon, a second person joins and starts a chain reaction , with others doing the same . In many cases it is the first dancer who is considered as a leader because he starts the movement. However , the video shines light on the second dancer , and he is who transforms a single nut into a leader in the eyes of the public. Many of us are in a mad rush to be first , but we rarely stop to think if this is the right decision to make, as a leader . It is n ot always in the chronological order of the events that define a leader....