Why Leadership Matters

Leadership matters because it gives us a sense of purpose: everyone has a unique purpose in life. We cannot fulfill our purpose by always following others; authentic leadership helps us find our true north and fulfill our purpose.

Leadership matters because it links us to our passions: Knowing our purpose is not enough. We cannot truly lead if we don't love what we do. By developing our leadership skills, we can link our purpose to our passions and serve others. When people in organizations link the organization's vision to their passion, they soar to excellence. Authentic leadership helps us create that link.

Leadership matters because people matter: The world is changing so fast that we cannot do everything alone. We need people onboard. However, we cannot push people to always do what we want; the time of forceful management is gone. We need to work with people and for people toward a shared vision if we want guarantee success. We can only lead on purpose and inspire people to join us along the way.

Why I Wrote This Book

This is a question that many people have asked me especially when they know that my background is in engineering and project management.

Actually, I didn't write this book because of my extensive leadership or management experience. No, I am not a guru, a celebrity, or a corporate executive. I am an ordinary person who loves his fellow human beings and cares about their well-being no matter who they are, what they do, or where they live.

In the past 20 years, I have noticed that many executives and managers treat their employees as a means of making profit for the business without investing in them. Intentionally or unintentionally, they treat people as machines that should work hard without regular maintenance. In other words, such organizations value people on paper and not in practice.

When people in an organization are not valued, trusted, respected, and empowered, they do not value, trust, respect, and follow their leaders in return. Nor do they fulfill the values and achieve the vision of the organization. Fear, doubt, stress, negativity, anger, and hatred start to dominate, while positivity, productivity, profit and prosperity decline. As a result, the organization will fail sooner or later. This hurts not only the people in the organization but also the business as well as the economy.

I wrote this book to remind all of us that people need to be valued; their voices need to be heard; and their potential needs to be developed.

People need to be encouraged and empowered to take action toward success for themselves and for their organizations and for those around them. This way they will be inspired to imbibe the culture of authentic leadership and become authentic leaders as well.

It's important to say, too, that "organization" can be a company, a corporation, an association, a group, or even a family. It doesn't have to be about business; it's about people working together. It's not the formal structure that counts.

In sum, I wrote this book to convey a profound message to you, and that message is that by linking purpose, passion, and people together we can achieve productivity, profit and prosperity - and by that I mean prosperity in its broadest form, which is richness in our lives. Together we can raise the consciousness of humanity and manifest a new world full of peace, love, and light.

Why This Book Is Called Leadership "Soup"

Here are my main two reasons:

Reason #1: In the same way that we eat soup when we catch cold, because we want to feel better and regain our power and health, Leadership Soup provides a formula for those who want to become more effective leaders by living on purpose and leading on purpose.

Reason #2: Leadership Soup is also an acronym for the framework that I developed. LEADERSHIP is an acronym for the soup ingredients and SOUP is the outcome. By using the ingredients of the Leadership Soup, an authentic leader is guaranteed Success, Outstanding performance, Unity, and Productivity. You will learn the whole formula in Chapter 1.

Leadership Soup helps you lead with your heart and soar to greatness with inspired people in your organization, no matter how big or small your organization is, or where you are on your journey of authentic leadership. Once you begin applying the Leadership Soup formula, you will soon notice the difference. People will want to know more about you and your leadership skills; they will be drawn to you. They will like to be around you, listen to you, and follow what you do and what you suggest. Why? Because they have tasted your Leadership Soup that has strong people factors in it. Once you taste Leadership Soup, you know how satisfying it is.

Why You Should Read This Book

By reading the insights, concepts, tools, and solutions shared in the Leadership Soup, you will discover:

• A recipe for a healthy and tasty "soup" that helps you not only lead effectively but also help others become better leaders;
• How to attain productivity, profit and prosperity by linking purpose, passion, and people;
• How to develop and maintain a powerful and clear vision that inspires others to take action toward achieving it;
• How to build trust among people;
• How to recognize your limiting beliefs and transform them to empowering ones;
• How to empower people to do more than what they think they can do;
• How to move from basic leadership to inspiring leadership and become a change agent for world transformation.

With the enormous changes that the world is going through in the 21st century, we are in need of authentic leaders who are change agents and who will help humanity go through this massive change and give birth to a new world of peace, love, and light, that is free from anger, greed, jealousy, and hatred.

You can be one of these change agents by developing your authentic leadership style in your personal and professional life. If you feel in your heart that you have been called to read this book, I assure you that Leadership Soup can act as a catalyst for the positive changes that you need to make in yourself. And I assure you it can also act as a catalyst to help your family, your team, your company, your community, your city, your country, and the whole world, depending on what you want to do with the material.

Leadership is applicable and valuable in all walks of life. That is why I recommend that you read this book to find the pearls of wisdom that were meant to be uncovered by you and only you, and use them to make the changes you need to make in the world, both inside and outside of yourself.
Whether you are a business owner, an employee, entrepreneur, coach, corporate executive, consultant, student, parent, experienced leader or an apprentice, this book has something to offer you and those around you.