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14. Does Leadership Play A Role In MLM?
from:Every program needs to have a good leadership if the program is to achieve its target goal. This is as true to MLM as it is to any business. Just because most of the affiliates of an MLM are working from the comfort of their homes does not mean that they do not follow what the leaders are telling them. Deviate from the leader and you go astray. If you jump into an MLM program that has an incompetent leader you are in deeper trouble than you ever expected.
It is also important to understand that there can be no compromise on honesty and hard work. If anyone thinks that wealth and success will come by sitting back on a sofa and watching some MLM software automatically do the work, they are doing nothing more than just waiting for failure to slap them in the face.
All successful MLM programs have been successful only because of good leadership. Good leadership in MLM means to mentor your down line in a manner that will be mutually beneficial for you, your ward and the entire down line. Good MLM leadership means to be in a position to help out people in your down line by giving up one of your recruit and placing the recruit in their down line to help them along the way. Just being able to recruit members in an MLM is not the main aim of a good leader.
To begin developing MLM leadership skills one must begin with oneself. If you cannot lead yourself in the right direction you will not be able to lead others. Then there is the need to develop group leadership qualities and also individual mentoring qualities. All three qualities when present in an individual will make a great MLM leader. To sum it up MLM leadership takes discipline to begin, conviction to continue and resolve to complete.
MLM leadership requires one to hold out during times of hardship, unfortunately this is where most MLM leaders jump the ship and swim to safety rather than take control and captain the ship to calmer waters and wait it out. These people do not have the conviction to continue what they started and as a result the whole MLM collapses. If the MLM leadership is weak, like that setup by upstarts who just want a fly-by-night business to keep them busy until the dream job comes by, the MLM is doomed from the very first day.
This is why it is important to research the MLM’s leadership and owners before opting to be a part of it. If the leadership is strong you have a good chance of making a success of your part of the MLM.