Last Christmas somebody gave me a book about efficient leadership.  According to the book, there are different reasons why people fail in leadership.  The first reason is their failure to delegate.  When somebody does not know what and how to delegate, that person is a bad leader.  In the end, a good leader is actually a good delegator.  Another mistake of leaders is that they fail to organize people well.  People under the charge of these leaders end up fighting each other and become so disunited.  Leaders who cannot get people organized eventually fail in their task.  Another reason why leaders fail is that they cannot organize their time.  There is so much to do, they cannot start an activity at the right time at the right moment.  There are three people in authority fail.  They do not like to delegate, they cannot organize people and they cannot organize their time.

But If I were the author of that book I would propose one basic reason why people in authority fail and that reason is one word: ARROGANCE.

People fail in authority because of arrogance.  To be arrogant is to be haughty and overbearing over those under us.  Jesus had the fullness of authority but He was not authoritarian.

How I wish, my fellowmen, and most especially to all teachers who are leaders of this nation, that much our authority will come from our heart and not from the head.  We enter into conflicts and our authority is questioned because there is too much head in our exercise of authority.  If only we could put more heart, meekness, gentleness and kindness in our exercise of authority to our students, to our subordinates, we would be like Jesus and we would have brothers and sisters and the people under us spellbound. 

All of us have authorities.  Some people have more authority than the others but we certainly have authority at least over one person.  Let us ask the Lord for the grace to put more heart into our exercise of authority.

By: Ricer B. Santoyo | Teacher III | MNHS-Cabcaben