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Eagle Ledership Traits-

Positive Leadership Traits of Eagle Man Should Learn From

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Eagles. For centuries, these seemingly larger-than-life birds have fascinated and inspired us with brilliant leadership characteristics. When eagles come to mind, people commonly imagine some enormous hunter soaring above wide-open spaces on outsized wings. Indeed, eagles are among the world’s largest birds of prey. We venerate them as living symbols of power, freedom, and transcendence. In some religions, high-soaring eagles are believed to touch the face of God. Legend holds that Mexico’s Aztecs so revered the birds that they built Tenochtitlan, their capital, at the spot where an eagle perched on a cactus.

Man for many years have taken Eagles are a symbol of beauty, bravery, courage, honour, pride, determination and grace. What makes this bird so important and symbolic to humanity is its characteristics. Seven important characteristics of eagle has been closely associated to leadership and is widely researched and the facts accepted globally.

The 6 Characteristics

Positive Trait # 1: Eagle Have Fine Vision

If you ever happen to see an eagle sitting high above the tree or cliff of a stiff mountain, watch closely and see how attentive the bird is. The body sits still and the head will be tilted side to side to observed what is happening below, around and above it. Even if its flying close by, you can observe how keen its eyes are looking for its prey. Eagles have a keen vision. Their eyes are specially designed for long distance focus and clarity. They can spot another eagle soaring from 50 miles away.

Does this characteristic ring a bell in your mind? I am sure it does. Look at great leaders of this world who have come and gone.There are many great leaders that came and went but one characteristic that is common in all is "Vision". Vision is a successful leadership characteristic

Take for Abraham Lincoln for example. Abraham, Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history, the Civil War. He had a vision, to save the union and free the slaves. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president.

You must have a vision that guides and leads your team towards the organization's or societal goals. The vision must be big and focused. A big, focused vision will produce big results.

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Positive Trait # 2: Eagles are Fearless

An eagle will never surrender to the size or strength of its prey. It will always give a fight to win its prey or regain its territory.

Go over and watch the video on how the Golden Eagle displays remarkable hunting strategy, preying on goats much larger than itself by throwing them off the cliff face.

No matter what the size of that person or what weapon they maybe holding, you would attack them without thought or regard for yourself. It wouldn't even dawn on you to be afraid because your instinct is to protect that which you love and cherish.

Successful leaders are fearless. They face problems heard on.

Positive Trait # 3. Eagles are Tenacious

Watch an eagle when a storm comes. When other birds fly away from the storm with fear, an eagle spreads its mighty wings and uses the current to soar to greater heights. The eagle takes advantage of the very storm that lesser birds fear and head for cover.

Challenges in the life of a leader are many. These are the storm we must face as leaders to rise to greater heights. Like an eagle, a leader can only rise to greater heights if he takes up the challenges head on without running away from it. Yet, another leadership characteristics

Are Tenacious

Eagle flying high

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Positive Trait # 4. Eagles are High Flyers

Eagles can fly up to an altitude of 10,000 feet, but they are able to swiftly land on the ground. At 10, 000 feet, you will never find another bird. If you find another bird, it has to be an eagle according to Dr, Myles Munroe.

An eagle doesn't mingle around with the pigeons. It is Dr. Myles Munroe who said that. Pigeons scavenge on the ground and grumble and complain all day long. Eagles are not. They fly and and make less noise waiting for opportunties to strike their next prey or glide with the current of the storm.

Great leaders are problem solvers. They don't complain like the pigeons do. They love to take challenges as the eagle does when the storm comes.

Positive Trait # 5. Eagles posses Vitality

Eagles are full of life and visionary but hey have they find time to look back at their life and re-energies themselves. This happens at about the age of 30. What happens is that when the eagles reach the age of 30, their physical body condition deteriorates fast making it difficult for them to survive.

What is really interesting is that the eagle never gives up leaving. instead he eagle retreats to a mountaintop and over a five month period goes through a metamorphosis. It knocks off its own beak by banging it against a rock, plucks out its talons and then feathers. Each stage produces a regrowth of the removed body parts, allowing the eagle to live for another 30 - 40 years.

There are times in your life as a leader that you must look back and take stock of your life. The good and the bad experiences you have been through as a leader. Are you keeping in trend with the current knowledge trend? Do you need to improve your certain areas in your life as a leader?

Great leaders are the ones that always do "check and balance"of their personal and professional lives and make an effort to learn things every day.

Nurturing eagle

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Positive Trait # 6. Eagles Nurture Their Younger Ones

Believe this or not. Eagles are know for their aggression. They are absolutely ferocious aren't they? Any one who doesn't have a total knowledge of this great bird will say yes. What is more astonishing with this bird is their ability to nurture their young ones. Research has shown that no member of the bird family is more gentle and attentive to its young ones than the eagles.

This is how it happens. When the mother eagle sees that time has come for it to teach the eaglets to fly, she gathers an eaglet onto her back, and spreading her wings, flies high. Suddenly she swoops out from under the eaglet and allows it to fall. As it falls, it gradually learns what its wings are for until the mother catches it once again. The process is repeated. If the young is slow to learn or cowardly, she returns it to the nest, and begins to tear it apart, until there is nothing left for the eaglet to cling to. Then she nudges him off the cliff.

True leaders are not bosses. They grow with their people. They strive to make individuals in the organization or society grow to their full ability. They teach and guide just like the mother eagle does. They never stop giving challenges but never give-up empowering and directing.

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God carries us on eagles' wings

In Exodus 19:4, God gives a wonderful image of his care for us. As the Israelites wander through the desert, he says to them, “You yourselves have seen … how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.”

What does God have in mind when he speaks of carrying us “on eagles’ wings”?

Three things come to my mind:

First, God is communicating to us his patient, loving, parental care for us.

I have read that when a baby eagle is hatched, its eyes are too immature to distinguish objects, but it chirps incessantly. By the end of a week, the chick can see well, move its head about, and bite at things. By two weeks it can crawl, but even at seven weeks of age it can barely maintain its balance when placed on a limb. Not until it is about three months old does it gain full power of flight. During those early months of its life, the mother eagle brings food to the young chick, watches over her baby, and guards her child until the young eagle learns to hunt for itself.

Interestingly, God offers this description of Israel “the third month after the Israelites left Egypt” (Exodus 19:1). To a significant extent the people who left Egypt were a newborn nation. They were every bit as helpless as a baby eagle, dependent on God to feed them, to give them water, and to protect them. Truly, in this way, God carried them on eagles’ wings, caring for them as a mother eagle cares for her baby.

Second, God is communicating to us the frightening but protective way he trains us to follow in his ways.

Writing in Yeoman’s England in 1934, W.B. Thomas records, “Our guide was one of the small company who have seen the golden eagle teaching the young to fly. He could support the belief that the parent birds, after urging and sometimes shoving the youngster into the air, will swoop underneath and rest the struggler for a moment on their wings and back.”

I have read a variety of reports affirming and disputing the idea that an eagle will catch its baby in this way. But the spiritual reality remains: God catches us and carries us on eagles’ wings. While wandering through the desert, the Israelites often felt like they had been pushed out of their nest, and they begged to go back to Egypt. We too may feel like that at times. Sometimes things happen to us in life, and we feel like we have been pushed out of a nest and are falling to our doom. But God is keeping an eye on us. He swoops down to catch us. He lovingly carries us. That’s what Jesus did when he died for us. That’s what he continues to do for us. And it’s what he will do for all who belong to him at the end of our lives here on earth; he will catch us and carry us to the home he has prepared for us in heaven.

Third, God is communicating to us his desire and ability to lift us up to the heights.

One of the most awesome characteristics of an eagles’ wings is the ability of those wings to lift the bird to the great heights of the sky. In an article in the Smithsonian Institution Bulletin, Arthur C. Bent provides this description: “Then one day the north wind crossed the sea, and arrived at the eagle’s home. And the eagle felt the cool arctic breeze and sailed out from his giant rocks . ... With his pinions wide outstretched he leaned on the refreshing wind, which bore him strongly upward, without a single stroke of his wings to help him on his way. So he mounted higher and higher till he had risen far above his native hill-top, and was outlined, a mere speck, against the dark blue of the sky. Still upwards he sailed, and for some time longer the watching stalker kept him in view, in the field of his glass. But at length he reached a point at which he was invisible, even by the aid of a telescope.”

Truly, in this way, God carries us on eagles’ wings, for he lifts us up to the heights of seeing God for who he is, and the heights of discovering for ourselves his love and truth and hope and peace and strength.

May you know the truth of God carrying you on eagles’ wings.