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How Can Great Leaders Change the World for the Better?
People resist change. Whether it’s a small habitual change or a large
societal change, our society is known for hindering this extraordinary
process. While most people never try and some try and fail miserably,
some are the torchbearers of change. These leaders envision a different
world and then make their dreams come true.
That being said, this process is not easy. Leaders, even the most resilient
ones, have to go through many challenges and face many hurdles before
they can transform an organization or society. It may appear like a daunting
task, but it is certainly not impossible.
If you want to make history and become one of the great leaders, you need
to acquire certain success-worthy traits. We have highlighted all the
information you need in this article. So without further ado, let’s get started.
9 Steps Leaders Can Champion Change
Most people want to bring about a substantial change. However, they lack
the basic guidelines. Here are the 9 steps you need to follow if you want to
be the torchbearers of change.
Identify the Problem: What Is Wrong With the Status Quo?
Be Courageous Enough to Challenge the Status Quo
Build a Team That Stands by You Through Thick and Thin

Lay Out a Clear Plan: Don’t Leave Anything to the Imagination
Be true to yourself
Celebrate small wins and always look forward
Cultivate inclusivity and diversity
Choose the right time to divulge information
Evolve and change with time
1. Identify the Problem: What Is Wrong With the Status Quo?
You cannot change things without understanding them first. The biggest
issue with leaders is that they want to stand out and do something out of
the box. However, they lack vision and a clear idea of where they are going
and why they are taking a certain path.
Take political leaders, for instance. Every other leader, for example, Lizz
Truss of the UK, will call for a change without first explaining why the said
change is necessary. If you are looking to change the economic structure
of your country, you need to have a clear idea of why the old system is not
working.
Similarly, leaders who want to adopt a new strategy often spend very little
time assessing the old strategies and understanding why they did not work.
For example, if you have an unhealthy environment, assess how you can
fix the toxic workplace environment.
Wanting change just for the sake of it is just a waste of time.
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2. Be Courageous Enough to Challenge the Status Quo
After you have spent a considerable amount of time understanding and
assessing the status quo, it is time to pick up your mantle and change
things. This requires courage- and a lot of that.
The world is quite set in its ways. There are norms, beliefs, and ideas that
govern the status quo. Anyone who stands up to challenge the old system
will need to burn many bridges. This is why many leaders who have called
for change have ended up conforming to the norms.
If you want to change the system, you need to stop looking for validation.
Revolution requires you to be indifferent to people’s ideas and opinions
about you. Someone who wants to transform society while also pleasing
everyone should not bother doing either. It will not work. The five
exemplary leadership practices can help you rise up to this challenge.
3. Build a Team That Stands by You Through Thick and Thin
Open any history book you like, turn to any page of your liking, and you will
not find a single leader who was able to revolutionize society alone. People
like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King may have led the way, but they had
a plethora of followers who shared their vision and their ideals.
Leaders of today often underestimate the importance of a well-built team.
You need to gather a group of men and women who share your worldview
and are looking to embark on a difficult journey with you. Your team should
constitute of strong men and women who will not falter at the first sign of
difficulty.

Leaders also prioritize quantity over quality: a mistake that often costs them
their mission. Although it is good to have numbers on your side, numbers
alone cannot win you wars. Always look for people who are consistent and
do not get scared easily. One good follower is better than 10 mediocre
ones.
4. Lay Out a Clear Plan: Don’t Leave Anything to the Imagination
After you have built a strong team, it is time to work on your plan. For
starters, bring your team together and allow them to intermingle. Your team
members need to get to know each other, so there is no room for animosity
or hatred. Here is how you can bring diverse people together on the same
platform.
Next, hold a meeting in which you introduce your plan. Make sure to
explain why you disagree with the status quo and why you and your team
need to challenge the old ways. Take the example of any social movement,
for example. You will never see the organizers start something without
planning everything meticulously.
You don’t only need to bring your team on board; you also have to
encourage them to contribute their ideas. This makes them feel like they
belong. Additionally, it makes your plan sound and coherent. As a result,
there is less chance of failure or mistakes.

5. Be True to Yourself
Leaders can often come off as deceptive if they continuously try to hide
their emotions and their feelings. Most people are made to believe that
showing one’s emotions is a sign of weakness; in reality, it can do wonders
for leaders.
When faced with a challenge, leaders have two options. They can either
hide all their emotions and their struggles or always put on a strong face.
Or they can showcase their vulnerability from time to time and make their
employees or followers feel connected. The former alienate leaders from
their followers, while the latter instills a sense of relatability among the
followers.
Talk about your struggles and the difficulty you are facing while executing a
task. Discussing the challenges will help your team understand you.
Moreover, it will encourage them to discuss their struggles with you. All this
helps build trust between leaders and their followers.
6. Celebrate Small Wins and Always Look Forward
If you don’t celebrate small wins, you will never have big wins to celebrate.
Leaders need to hold their ground even if they are sometimes disappointed
in the outcomes. Changing a system, no matter how small or big, is a
Herculean task; it requires the highest level of motivation and
determination.
However, leaders are often taken aback when they don’t get their desired
results. In the midst of this, they forget to celebrate small wins. This is
counterintuitive, as it demotivates your team.

If you are managing an office, and you have achieved a 3% growth instead
of the 7% you were expecting, you need to still celebrate the 3% victory. As
a leader, you need to look at the silver lining. Tell your team how a 3%
growth is still better than no growth at all. Compelling them to look ahead is
the only way to keep channeling change.
7. Cultivate Inclusivity and Diversity
Whether you are looking for political, social, or economic change, diversity
and inclusivity will always help you secure a long-lasting change. For
starters, make sure your team consists of a diverse lot.
Add different ethnicities, different age groups, different genders, and most
importantly, people from different social classes. This will help you gain a
new perspective on world issues. Additionally, this will help you minimize
risks.
When you listen to a range of different opinions, you can predict how your
solution will impact different groups. If the impact costs more than the
benefit, you will move on to an alternative. If the impact is positive and is
more likely to be acceptable to a diverse group of people, you can move on
with your plan without any doubts in your mind.
But to make the most of this opportunity, make sure you eliminate any bias
and prejudice you have regarding different people. Give people the chance
to speak openly and without any fear or intimidation. Welcome opposing
views; this is the only way you can create a foolproof plan for change.
8. Choose the Right Time to Divulge Information

When bringing people into your fold, don’t expect them to get a hang of
things instantly. One of the worst things leaders do is bombard their team
members with a lot of information. This not only intimidates them, but
makes them less hopeful of change.
Leaders need to be proactive in their approach. There is a time and place
to disclose any information. Here is how you can plan it.
In the beginning, weeks, provide them with contextual information only.
This will allow them to understand why they are doing something.
Also, give personal reasons. Ensure that people can relate to your vision
and everyone knows how the change will benefit them.
As weeks pass by, provide more information on logistics, procedures, and
alternatives.
Conduct meetings and encourage people to bring more people to the team.
Also, teach them ways to educate others.
9. Evolve and Change With Time
Evolving with time is not equivalent to going back on your words; flexibility
is essential to this process. Leaders who are adamant about following their
initial plan, even if all indicators suggest otherwise, end up making fools of
themselves- and their team members.
Take the recent Covid Pandemic, for example. There were many managers
and business owners who were hesitant to go online; they kept their offices
open and put their entire teams in jeopardy. Other leaders found ways to
evolve with time and do wonders for their businesses. They tried to find a

silver lining amidst all the chaos and increase engagement with their
clients.
However, Leaders who speed through the thinking and initial planning
process are often found shifting between plans. They take decisions on an
ad-hoc basis. This is counterintuitive, as any change in the plan should be
externally derived and supported by changes in the market.
3 Ways in Which Leaders Can Transform the World
When we think of leaders, people like Abraham Lincoln, Muhammad Ali
Jinnah, or Nelson Mandela come to mind. But leadership is not only
revolutionizing the social system of the world. Leadership comes in many
ways. Here are 3 ways in which leaders help transform the world.
1) Transformation Through Managing
Most people get promoted to managers after succeeding in their role as
employees of an organization. Managers create objectives for the entire
team and appoint people and teams to complete certain tasks. It is the job
of managers to inspect and regulate the work and ensure everything
happens timely.
Managers can transform a company by ensuring all the tasks are
completed on time and that teams are working to their optimal capacity.
Managers also ensure employees face minimum hurdles and have all the
resources to complete their assigned tasks.

2) Transformation Through Coaching
Coaches are connected to the process of change more intimately than
managers. They interact with their employees and their team members
more closely and teach them the right way of doing things. It is the coach’s
responsibility to uplift people and makes them rise to the challenges.
Coaches also motivate their teams and ensure their well-being. From the
best swimmers to the best cricket and football teams, coaches are behind
the success of the most amazing people in the world.
3) Transformation Through Leading
Managers and coaches bring about change, but they don’t lead the
process. They push other people and contribute to the change. Real
transformation can be brought about by leaders.
Leaders realize that a problem exists, and they can dream of a different
world, but they don’t stop there. They put their heart and soul into bringing
about this change. From building a team from scratch to making people
believe in their vision, a leader does the impossible. However, that is not
all, there is so much more to the story. Read ahead to find out.
5 Ways in Which Leaders Change the World for the Better
1) Leaders Realize People Are Worth Fighting For
There are times when society forgets that every human being is important
and worth fighting for. The hypercapitalist world often prioritizes economic
gains over the well-being of individuals. A good example of this is the
recent hike in the prices of masks and medicine during covid.

When the world dehumanizes human beings and considers them as less
valuable, leaders rise to the occasion and fight for the minority’s rights.
They make people feel valued and worthwhile again. This is because the
best leaders understand the intrinsic value of human beings regardless of
their class, gender, situation, or circumstances.
2) Leaders Instill Hope When All Seems Lost
Pick up history books and read about the struggle of black America. You
will realize how leaders encouraged people to keep fighting for change
even when all hope was lost. Small losses or drawbacks can demotivate
people; it can make people feel hopeless and doubt the cause.
It is this hopelessness that leaders prevent. Leaders can, either with their
speech or their actions, make people carry on noble missions. They can lift
people from the deepest pits and affirm to them that change is possible.
This helps people feel confident and validated again.
3) Leaders Have the Power to Challenge the Status Quo
The world’s powerful don’t listen to the world’s weak and underprivileged
people. It is very difficult to reason or pressurize the world’s aggressor.
However, leaders can challenge the status quo. They yield enough power
and authority that they are heard and obeyed, even by the world’s
strongest men.
Whether it was American or the French Revolution, leaders rose from
amongst the common people and rallied for a long-lasting change. Through
good articulation and pressure-building tactics, they were able to compel
change.

4) Leaders Encourage People to Break Shackles
Most people live their entire lives, never having the courage to rise above
their situation and bring a change in their personal life. However, things can
be better if more leaders can encourage people to believe in themselves
and aim for change.
Great leaders don’t just motivate individuals to do better; they also provide
them with resources to do better. In most instances, this is in the form of
material resources. However, there are other ways. Leaders act as
coaches and mentors and guide people to success.
5) Leaders Bring Tangible Change and Don’t Fixate on a Utopian
World
Most leaders paint a very utopian picture of the world. Only the true ones
can differentiate reality from wishful thinking. You may believe that the
concept of private property is unfair or that there should be no difference
between the rich and the poor. However, believing that these differences
can be eliminated is wishful thinking.
Good leaders focus on making the lives of people relatively better, not
perfect; they know that the latter is not possible. They focus less on making
grand claims and prioritize meaningful action. They celebrate small wins
and appreciate every small victory.

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Why Should You Change Yourself Before You Change the World?
Most leaders are all talk and no action. They will make grand claims without
producing any tangible results. So before you talk about changing the
entire world, we suggest you self-reflect and bring some positive changes
to yourself. Here are some tips to help you do this.
1- Reflect on Your Vision
You cannot convince others of a change that you don’t believe in. Before
starting anything, reflect and try to connect with the past version of yourself.
Assess why you embarked on this particular journey. If you have created a
company, reflect on why you want the company to do things differently.
Regardless of what you believe in, make sure you have unwavering
evidence to support your vision.
2- Build Courage Through Little Steps
Building courage is difficult; it is easier said than done. However, you can
build courage gradually. Find out what scares you the most. Make a list of
everything you are afraid to do. This can include speaking in front of an
audience, saying ‘No’ to people, negotiating with someone, or breaking any
norm.

Next, challenge yourself to do one of these things every day until the
fear vanishes.
3- Ensure Consistency in Your Speech and Action
People can see through a facade sooner or later. If you try to be someone
you are not, you will never succeed. Leaders who try to change
themselves, so they can succeed in their ulterior motives, end up falling
hard. If you want people to follow you, develop consistency in your
behavior.
Say what you think and do what you say. Everything else will fall into place
automatically.
4- Hold Yourself Accountable
External accountability can put you in place, but leaders often escape the
extrinsic accountability measures. They need to hold themselves
responsible. However, this requires a strong belief in the plurality of human
beings. If you believe yourself to be a saint and above any human vice, you
are beyond saving.
However, if you believe that you are a human susceptible to mistakes, you
will reflect upon your mistakes and always judge yourself on the most
stringent of metrics.
5- Develop Humility and Patience
When you are leading a team, the temptation to become haughty and
arrogant is really strong. You will have two options moving forward. You
can either have a ‘holier than thou’ attitude and treat everyone else as

inferior, or you can develop humility and encourage people to question and
object to your ideas.
The former may make you feel good about yourself, however, it will be the
latter that will make your team and followers respect and obey you.
Are We Facing a Global Leadership Crisis?
The world is going through a global leadership crisis. Notable statesmen
like Henry Kissinger argue so, too. Just recently, the UK has been a victim
of this leadership crisis, with its leader Liz Truss resigning within the first
two months of her tenure. But this is not just happening globally, smaller
organizations are also experiencing the same. Here are some reasons why
leaders are not rising to the occasion.
1- Leaders Are Obsessed With Outcomes
Leaders will go to any lengths to achieve favorable outcomes, without
caring about the pathways they take. They will justify the means as long as
it leads them to the right ‘end’: an approach that is blurring the lines of
morality for everyone else.
2- Treating Employees as Disposable
It is okay to fire somebody who is not right for a particular job. However,
treating human beings as disposable and easily replaceable all the time
reduces their utility and hampers their self-confidence. It also makes
employees reciprocate a similar attitude towards organizations; employees
will eventually become quiet quitters.

3- Ego and Arrogance Dictating Decisions
Leaders, whether it’s populist leaders like Tayeb Erdoğan or Donald Trump
or people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, are extremely egoistic, and their
arrogance makes them treat people badly. They have this ‘holier than thou’
attitude that makes them less relatable and thus less trustworthy.
4- The complexity of World Issues
When you look around the world, there is nothing black and white;
everything falls in gray areas. The crisis involving climate, poverty,
overpopulation, and food deprivation are complex and will require the
strongest of leaders. The nature of these tasks is overwhelming, thus
reducing the self-confidence of leaders.
5- Not Enough Training and Advice
Even the most skillful of people need training and education. There are
sadly no grand platforms that teach individuals to become better leaders.
Young individuals that get leadership positions are clueless when it comes
to navigating the challenges of their organizations. However, don’t lose
hope, we have a solution for you.
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Best Diplomats Can Help You Transform the World-Here Is How
Take the example of the best sportsmen, the best writers, the best actors,
or any other successful person, all of them would have had some coaching
in their lives. It shouldn’t be any different for potential future leaders.

If you want to bring substantial change in the world, whether it is of a
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Conclusion
Human beings feel most relaxed when they are working in a familiar
environment, an environment that is shielded by norms, beliefs, and
traditional ideas. Any person that aims to change the status quo or
introduce a new way will face many challenges. This is why people who
embark on this difficult journey end up losing focus and giving up all too
soon.
However, there are a few who rise to the challenge and succeed in their
mission. You can make history by revolutionizing your field. All you need is
the right vision and courage; a lot of courage.

How a Leader Can Change a Society?
The inclusion of good leaders is essential to the well-being of society. They
bring positivity and inclusivity to a disorganized society. Moreover, they
inculcate self-confidence in individuals, especially the ones who doubt
themselves extensively. Additionally, good leaders can also bring tangible
economic and social benefits to society.
How Can Systems Leadership Improve the World?
If you are faced with a complex challenge or situation, and you are unsure
of what to do, there is a clear-cut approach that you can follow and ensure
success. These steps come in handy when the issue can not be resolved
by direct means. The systems approach provides a clearer framework.
Here are 5 elements that you need to incorporate.
1) Convene and commit to finding out common goals and preferred
outcomes.
2) Look and learn through system mapping and stakeholder analysis to find
out a common ground for all.
3) Engage and energize through frequent communication and collaboration
between stakeholders.
4) Act with accountability and ensure every action is being properly
monitored and regulated.
5) Review and revise your progress; ensure flexibility while moving forward
with your plan.

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