I would assume that if everyone had the characteristics and the motivation to become a leader, this world might eat itself up without any sort of organization to the procedure. Luckily, there is a natural way for any person to become a leader and build a team at the same time. This method allows for the strengthening of important attributes and the development of skills that will be reflected in a work and effort environment. It is the opportunity to build a family.
The genius of this leadership model is the time margin. Ever man or woman who wishes to have a family can do so and teach that family in unity. Because of the time-span of generations, this gives to parents the opportunity to have responsibility and learn how to create an environment of success.
Those fundamentals are crucial to leaders. A leader who does not know what to do when someone disagrees with him can find he is making many enemies for his stupid, rash and harsh reactions. He cannot react wisely if he has never had the experience of dealing with innocent mistakes, nor can he act prudently to discipline with regard to blatant disregard for policy and generally accepted principles.
These are things that are natural to a parent because of the constant relevance of those skills. Every day has the need of teaching. So it is also in the workplace. Under every business circumstance a leader must be there to teach by example what his employees ought to do in his absence. It should be the hope of every manager that his employees would know exactly what to do and have the diligence to do it even if he were not there and not watching.
This requires more than scolding and yelling and disciplinary action for poor conduct. Far from the discipline stick, the manager must teach unity in the group and the exhilaration of accomplishment as a whole. The must learn from their manager the passion for work. He must show them a winning and successful attitude or they will never have one.
A manager must understand a few principle questions that they need to ask themselves. They are: When if not now? Who if not me? There is no better time and no better person to teach employees the importance of hard work and smart work. Your managers are the best in the world if you treat them that way. Treat them the way you would like them to be, and they are that much more likely to become the type of people you would be proud to call your employees.