This Lecturer's Call to Arm Speech - the Call to Leadership

'Quamplurimi et quam aptisimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

A teacher must show by example, how to do things he teaches.

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THE CALL FOR LEADERSHIP

The title of this course is call for Leadership.  Why is this  course called The Call for Leadership?

1   What is is the first call?.  Well, Ateneo, St Ignatius, the SJ want you to be a leader, no matter what your job is, whether you are  corporate boss, start up entrepreneur,  as a wife, a child, a husband, a vendor, constantly,  every day.  Leadership is not just for govt officials, for tycoons, for corporate honchos and vice president.  It is for every one.  What we do has leadership value.  We are lulled into believing  that if you do not have title, we are not a leader.  We practice leadership all the time unknowingly;  it may be bad or good leadership.  Our action affects others.  Whether we are alone, or has an army reporting to us at our beck and call, we are leaders. And thus, we have the second call...

 2.  The second call   To be self aware.  When  self aware , we evolve  into better leaders.  This course does not want you to be a copycat, a reproduction of a hero whose life has been rendered trite and irrelevant by history.  You too can become a hero, by being authentic, by looking at yourself in the mirror to find the real you..  Thus you are not just to be a corporate manager, or just Business Leader. You are a leader anywhere. To be a leader is to be you.

3.  The third  call -  I the course wants to clone other leaders, more leaders, as you strive to be a better leader. It is a duty.  It is a must.  The future leader could be your children, a relative, or a co worker..  We have to multiply ourselves as leaders. Leadership does not start and end with us;  we have to grow other leaders



4 And the the fourth call:


Ateneo, wants you to be at the forefront, at the area where your faith and leadership meet the world's deepest needs.  Unlike the Benedictine monks who hide behind the cloisters and monastaries, or OP who just want to focus on  teaching, SJ want you to join the problems of the world, and help eradicate this.  As is with the present Pope Francis who got into trouble by not minding what the tyrants in his home country was doing against its people.  Some Jesuits were even involved in the Theology of Liberation