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Leadership is a key qualification for admission to top colleges and especially, business schools. When they think of leadership, many people think of titles: captain of the chess team, president of the student body, valedictorian.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Not About Titles Or Individual Achievement<\/h2>\n

However, highly selective colleges and business schools are looking for something that goes beyond titles. After all, if titles were all that mattered, the admissions committee could spare itself a lot of work by running applications through an tracking system that looks for certain key words.<\/p>\n

This is not to detract from extraordinary individual accomplishment. National and even international recognition certainly makes a candidate stand out. Winners of the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, for example, have proven beyond a doubt that they are brilliant and hardworking.<\/p>\n

But leadership is something different.<\/p>\n

Leadership is less about individual accomplishment and more about inspiring a team. Wojciech (Voytek) Majewski, who teaches leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, explains it this way on LinkedIn: \u201cOur definition of leadership is motivating and inspiring a group of individuals to achieve a shared goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Majewski confirms, \u201cI do not associate leadership with job-titles and formal hierarchies. You can show leadership each time you are confronted with a problem and when cooperating with others is needed to solve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s About Other People<\/h2>\n

So how can you practice this elusive quality, leadership? In a sense, it\u2019s simple: look for a problem, cooperate with others and solve it.<\/p>\n

The problem doesn\u2019t have to be enormous. It can be a small problem at school. It can be physical or mechanical, if you are inclined to solve problems using engineering skills. It can be social, if you have a talent for reorganizing the way things are done.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re concerned about climate change, think of one small way you can inspire other students to band together to save energy. If the social exclusion of new kids is an issue at the beginning of the school year, what would help?<\/p>\n

Help Other Students<\/h2>\n

Younger students are always in need of role models and help with both academic and after-school projects. If you have an outstanding talent or a skill at which you excel, consider teaching it to kids in younger grades. Here are some examples.<\/p>\n

One accomplished classical musician, a senior at a German school, started a jazz ensemble for middle school students. He was as proud of their end-of-year concert as of his solo performance.<\/p>\n

Recent arrivals to your town or city need friends. If they are coming from another country, they may not speak the local language very well. You could offer to teach basic writing skills for school, or hold conversation hours. A variation is provided by a student who went once a week to a local center for refugees, to give guitar lessons. The young newcomers appreciated the break from struggling to communicate.\u201cMusic,\u201d said the guitarist, \u201cis a universal language.\u201d<\/p>\n

What This Has To Do With Business<\/h2>\n

Once you begin such a project, see if you can motivate other students to build on your example. That\u2019s how one person\u2019s effort can snowball\u2014or in business terms, \u201cscale.\u201d<\/p>\n

You may need to let others know about your project, and that you need their contribution; that\u2019s marketing. You may need a budget and a plan to raise money to expand; that\u2019s finance. You may need to recruit and supervise people; that\u2019s staffing. You may need to rethink your goals and the steps it will take to get there, and make sure people know how to continue without you, once you graduate; that\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s clearer to you now how these skills closely resemble the areas of expertise required to launch a successful business. That\u2019s why business programs, whether undergraduate or graduate, are particularly interested in leadership. They see not only what tends to be first in the minds of applicants, namely the topic or the content, but also the structure of the activity. They look not only what you do, but also why and how you do it.<\/p>\n

This is very different from the usual way students and parents go about assessing extracurricular activities. People often begin by asking, \u201cExactly what activities are sure to demonstrate leadership on college or business school applications?\u201d They wonder which is more important, an economics contest or a sustainability project.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about the particular topic, but rather the way in which a person engages with others who are inspired to solve a problem together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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