Leadership Stardom

Lim Leong (aka Reeves) wrote on his blog an interesting piece, Leveraging on Consumer Stardom. By the way, that’s a clever name for a blog.

It started me thinking about stardom. Click. Click. Whirr.

What about leveraging on leadership stardom? If you are well-liked by your staff, colleagues and peers (not just by your personality) for your ability to lead in teams, and you seem to be the default, leader-elect for other opportunities – then you may be a star. Stars sparkle. They may have that cheeky twinkle in their eyes, or their feet. Their energy is infectious, and their behaviors affective on others.

Dr Kua Harn Wei, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore is an internationally-ranked, Deca-Ironman triathlete. That’s 10 Ironman distance races, done back to back, over 10 days; or 38km swim, 1,800km ride, and 420km run done, consecutively. This endurance athlete is considered amazing and bonkers at the same time. He has star quality, by reputation of his achievements. He also volunteers his time with wheelchair athletes.

Top, local Olympic Distance triathlete and SEA Games gold medalist, Mok Ying Ren may be considered a leadership star. He was the Ambassador for the Tri-Factor triathlon series this year. Despite being a busy medical student, he continues to achieve personal bests in public runs and triathlons.

In the early days of this blog, we enjoyed interviews with leading triathletes, ultra-marathoners, celebrity-emcees, and Everest climbers. They included: Steve Novick, Dave Low, Craig Holland, Oz Perlman, Alan Geraldi and Whit Raymond.

Have you generated and garnered enough wisdom to offer advice, or your words of wisdom? Have you updated your beliefs, including contemporary versions of idioms, axioms and proverbs?

How do you leverage on your leadership stardom? Do people around you spread your reputation? Are you often quoted in conversations?

The great leader is the one who the people say: We did it ourselves!