12 LEADERSHIP LAWS FOR FARMERS.

Why farmers should be leaders?
Agricultural sectors continues to be the largest employer, ranking first in terms of number of labour force in Ugandan economy representing around 80% of the total households in Uganda hence the need to empower farmers as leaders to promote Agricultural Sustainability, Food Security, Agricultural Knowledge transfer and development of Agricultural sector in Uganda.

Who is a Leader?
A leader influence others. A leader attracts "who Iam not, who I want to be". A leader's influence depends on the level of influence. 
As farmers our value and significance raises when we influence others at a time when it is needed most. Let's dive into leadership laws.

Leadership laws.
1. Law of solid ground 
2. Law of respect 
3. Law of legacy
4. Law of victory 
5. Law of the lid
6. Law of sacrifice 
7. Law of the process 
8. Law of priorities 
9. Dream like a child 
10. Law of intentionality 
11. Law of awareness 
12. Law of the mirror 
Practices at least four of this leadership laws and see your self transform as a leader.

1. Law of solid ground 
It is based on trust-based leadership.
Leaders cannot repeatedly break their subordinate trust and still hope to influence them.
Trust is the foundation of leadership, the glue that cements the organization.

2. Law of respect
People naturally follow/ influenced by a leader stronger than themselves.
When people respect you as a person - they admire you.
When people respect you as a friend - they love you.
When people respect you as a leader - they follow you.

3. Law of legacy
A leader's lasting value is measured by succession. A leader's true value is measured by the ability to develop and empower others, ensuring that their influence continues along after they are gone.
Farmers I relate this to living a foot print in hearts of men. Achievement is obtained when you are able to do great things for yourself. Success is obtained when you empower followers to do great things. Legacy is obtained when you raise an organization to do great things without them.

4. Law of victory.
States that leaders find a way for their team to win.
Leaders find out what it takes to win and go for it with everything at their disposal.

5. Law of lid
Leadership ability is the lid that determines a persons level of effectiveness.
No organization can grow beyond the top lid of it's organization. 

6. Law of sacrifice.
For everything you gain, you must loose something. The law states that those who do, will go up and those who continue doing will stay up.

7. Law of process 
Leadership develops daily, Not in a day. This means that you can tell where a person will end up by watching their daily habits and priorities hence leaders must have a personal plan for growth.

8. Law of priorities.
Underscores the fundamental truth that not all activities are equal. In other words, not everything we do are of equal importance or has the same impact on our goals and objectives.

9. Dream like a child.
A leader dreams big. Be a big dreamer, don't accept anything less than what you want. Be a realistic optimist, never underestimate the difficult of dream, take 100% responsibility for your success, build you vision by visualizing steps to your success and don't accept anything less than what you want.

10. Law of intentionality.
Emphasizes that growth doesn't happen by accident by rather than by choice.
Farmers to grow must close the growth gaps that is to say knowledge gap, assumption gap, time gap, mistake gap, perfection gap, inspiration gap, comparison gap.

11. Law of awareness 
As farmers we must know ourselves to grow. Knowing farmers weakness, strength, opportunities, interests and skills will set a course of direction hence mitigating confusion, frustration and creating a sense of fulfilment.

12. Law of mirror 
States that you can't add value to yourself until you see value in yourself. The belief that I am worthy the time, efforts, energy to develop as a farmer is essential to best our best as farmers.

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