The way to become a leader is to first learn to be a team member. When I later joined the Marine Corps after the military academy, my leadership and teamwork development continued. Today, as a leader of my businesses, my leadership development continues. One way to be a great leader is to keep learning and keep accepting feedback from your team—even if it's not feedback you like. Some of the best training in leadership I have ever received was through blunt, in-your-face feedback.
You may have seen pictures of a Marine drill instructor screaming in a young recruit's face. That recruit is learning to accept feedback. The real world is a feedback mechanism. When you climb on the bathroom scale and find you are twenty pounds overweight, that is feedback. If you are fired, broke, or divorced, that, too, is feedback. Accepting feedback is essential to being a leader. Unfortunately, many of our business, labor, political, and educational leaders don't accept or learn from the feedback they receive in the form of messages from the world economy. They don't seem to get it.
— Robert Kiyosaki; Rich Dad's Conspiracy of The Rich
