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Leadership from A Kid’s Point Of View (Lucky or Skillful?)

by | Oct 6, 2012 | By Karin Hurt, Developing Leadership In Children |

A Saturday Salutation Guest Post

Sebastian Hurt, Age 7

Sebastian is my son, and a First Grader. He loves Jiu Jitsu, beyblades, and climbing new mountains. After much dinner table conversation on leadership and posts, he asked to write his own. I served only as typist. What a fantastic conversation.

He was troubled with all the stories from history and the Bible where people seemed to land into leadership positions and not handle it well. When listening to me talking, he said, “mom, all that advice is good, but sometimes people become leaders because they are lucky.”

 He started with thoughts on leadership “by chance” or ” by luck.” Here is where he landed.

Let’s grow leaders! Game on.

I have an intrigued heart and excited mind open to thoughts from your youth and children and would be happy to talk with them and promote their ideas. Please consider sending my way as a future Saturday Salutation (see below for a few others).

Seb’s Leadership Theory

Sometimes it’s part of leadership how you are born.

It’s not always fair and I don’t approve of it either.

You cannot be a good leader without proving yourself.

The only thing you need to be a leader is to show your mind and courage.

I will tell you about the four powers of leadership, both good and bad.

Mind: The mind can help you in your journey for leadership if you have calmness

Power: Power can be destructive and creative chose which one is yours

Sacrifice:: To be a perfect leader you must sacrifice your own time for your followers

Willingness: You must have the will to give your all

P.S . BOUYAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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9 Comments
  1. Anonymous

    Karin, clearly you are doing a fabulous job growing the young leaders in your family! Seb is wise beyond his years.

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    • letsgrowleaders

      thanks so much! and thanks for taking the time to comment, that means a lot.

      Reply
  2. Larry

    WOW!
    PopPop
    (an unbiased comment from a grandfather who was already impressed with him)

    Reply
  3. Marcus Hurt

    hmmm! some excellent thinking. that kid must have some sharp parents.

    Reply
  4. Ben Evans

    Sebastian seems to be blooming into such a phenomenal young leader. He has so many positive role models in his life, that I am 100% sure he will be the best he can be!

    Reply
  5. Robert Tanner

    Karin,

    Sebastin is clearly an example of the saying, “An apple does not fall far from the tree.” His smart post reminds me of Jesus reminding the adults of the wisdom of children in the Gospels.

    Good job Sebastin!

    Regards,

    Robert

    Reply
  6. letsgrowleaders

    Robert, thank you so much for you kind words! Really appreciate your taking the time to comment. Yeah, I thought of the “let the children come to me” thing too… thanks for adding that.

    Reply
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  8. Tammy Sellers

    ohhh… he is so much wiser than his years… out of the mouth of babes! What a great job you are doing mom!

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Karin Hurt helps human-centered leaders find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results.  She’s the founder and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders, an international leadership development and training firm known for practical tools and leadership development programs that stick. She’s the award-winning author of four books including Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates and Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict, and hosts the popular Asking For a Friend Vlog on LinkedIn. A former Verizon Wireless executive, Karin was named to Inc. Magazine’s list of great leadership speakers. Karin and her husband and business partner, David Dye, are committed to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells – building clean water wells for the people of Cambodia.

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