Saturday, June 18, 2005

Prince leadership in Totality...

What is leadership in totality? There is no way you can understand about leadership in totality if you do not know about teaching and guiding your subordinate. Leaders who do not know about guiding subordinate, very often, have overwhelming self-obsession.

Self-obsession is a strong self-force generate from inside out, it occurs when a leader desire for a success, and strong confidence and autocratic become the main causes. Self-obsession can lead to several outcomes, but the most significant one is when, they do not train people to react in leader’s way, but they train people to perform according to their way, which is totally wrong. They possess strong self-obsession disease, which they feel the need to fulfill own desire, and thus, forcing the surrounding (human factor, environment and etc) to adapt to them.

Meanwhile, fickleness has become part of being a good leader, leading to the creation of executive dilemma nowadays. Fickleness occurs when leaders have the thought of ‘incremental improvement’, thus, leading to change of decision. Many observers believes that leaders are being indecisive, which is a wrong perception, but eventually, either incremental improvement or indecisive, are both belong to the same categories- inferior leadership! Perhaps, leaders do not realize their fickleness, but the consequences, which may affect their business operation somehow, and further, it increases the burden of work of their subordinate.

Meanwhile, a good leader, perhaps, should know when to provide opportunities to their subordinate, leader should always clear of what they want at the first hand. In term of delegation, leader needs to clearly specify your objective so that executer can help to draw strategy to achieve the particular objective. Very often, leaders, themselves do not know what they want- when they thought they know, and the outcome generated from their subordinate does not match their expectation. This can be a disaster for the management after all.

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