有许多书籍都在教授各种各样的领导力技巧，用以充实你的账户余额、获取晋升、得到更多权力、掌控别人的人生，并相应地膨胀你的自我。
但是，如果有一种领导力，可以让我们为他人的人生和全世界做出非常重要、有价值的贡献呢？
真正的领导力意味着成为他人人生中有积极影响的领导者，而不仅仅是带领你赚得更多的钱。真正重要的是这人离世之后留下的印记。如果人没有真正的操守，世界都会恨他。人们鄙视虚伪。
当你成为领导之后，人们敞开心扉信任你。在这种状态下，你可以为他人的人生带来最大益处，但也可能给这些人带来最大的痛苦、烦恼和灾难。因此，领导并不是一个去享受的岗位，如果这是你的想法，那你将是一个榨取的人，是一个折磨人的领导。
领导力是一种服务他人的非常严肃、重要的职责。真正的领导处在服务的精神下。还有，为了成为一个合格的领导，人必须拥有“什么是正确的”与“什么是错误的”的知识。
知识就是力量。伟大的事不关乎拥有权力，而关乎你如何运用权力。你是否把权力用在获得真正的内在满足感和启明，提升他人的身体、情感和道德品质上？如果你的人生一直都在思考的是工作、金钱和名望，你的人生会有深度吗？会有满足感吗？你是不是仅仅在给外界输出自己的物质主义、贪婪、嫉妒和骄傲的知觉？你的人生是肤浅的，还是有意义的、真实的？有很多重要的问题你应该要去问的。
优秀的领导是用关系将忠实和诚信给人以信心，并激发人们的热情的人，不管这个关系是直接的还是延展的关系。
There are many books that teach you various leadership techniques to fatten your bank balance, to climb up the corporate ladder, to have more power, to control people’s lives and to inflate your ego accordingly. But what about a type of leadership by which we can make a very serious, significant contribution to people’s lives and to the world in general? Actual leadership means to be a leader who actually has a positive effect in people’s lives—and not simply leading in such a way that you make a lot of money. What really matters is the mark that one leaves in the world. If one does not have proper integrity, the world hates him. People despise hypocrisy.
When you become a leader, people open their hearts to trust you; they open their faith. In that state you can do the greatest benefit to those people’s lives, but you could also cause the greatest pain, anguish and devastation in those people’s lives. So leadership is not a post to enjoy If that is your idea, then you will be a very exploitative person and a very miserable leader. Leadership is a very serious, significant responsibility of service to others. A real leader is in a spirit of service. And, in order to be a proper leader in that way, one must have knowledge of what is actually right and what is actually wrong.
Knowledge is power. The great thing is not about having power; the great thing is how you use your power. Are you using the power in such a way that you gain genuine inner fulfillment and enlightenment, and improve the physical, emotional and ethical quality of others? If you are just going through your life thinking about job, money and prestige, then will there be any depth to your life? Will there ever be fulfillment in your life? Are you just selling your consciousness out to the world of materialism, greed, envy and pride? Is your life superficial, or is it meaningful and real? These are the most important questions that you should be asking. A good leader is a person who attracts people’s confidence and enthuses people with loyalty and faithfulness because of their relationship, whether the relationship is immediate or extended.
摘自书籍《The Real You》（真正的你）
作者Radhanath Swami
