Sunday, June 26, 2005

Prince thought of leaders....

There’s no perfect leadership in this world, but every leader is trying to be one!

Human being was born with hidden leadership skills, but human leadership skills vary according to their uniqueness, depending on their (human being) early childhood education. Leadership skills very much depend on the character of a human being, being stubborn can foster an autocratic leader; meanwhile, being considerate can help to foster a democratic leader. Nevertheless, no one can tell, which can be a good leader. A good leader must posses the character and features of a leader that require for the particular fields, for example, in military, autocratic and discipline are an important leadership characters in order to lead a troop.

There are 3 types of leaders, Autocratic, Democratic & Hybrid, Autocratic leaders can be very aggressive and stubborn, and lacking of consideration can be one major weakness. Meanwhile, democratic stands for freedom, whereby; leader is willing to lower down self-status to seek for opinion of the public, Democratic leader has a considerate level of understanding in their leadership scope. Eventually, Hybrid is when both autocratic and democratic play a roles each in the leadership scope, Leader needs to know when they have to be democratic, or autocratic, but one major weakness, is that they may lose themselves under pressure or stress, thus tend to make wrong decision. Nothing is perfect, thus, you can not find a perfect leader in the world, even a Prime Minister of a country may make mistake, and go against the public through autocracy.

A leader needs to gain as much skill as possible!

Meanwhile, do you think leader needs to posses the execution skill? Or a leader can just be a leader themselves, without any skill (except decision-making skills)?

A leadership with only decision-making skill is called King Leadership skill (as prince names it but why?!). King leadership needs no other skills to be a king, because most of the time, a king need only to make decision on daily issues. A king was born and conferred as a king through hereditary right. However, King leadership can not help to sustain an achievement (some may be able), because with little skill they posses, do not command respect from people, as people will not obey a king with no specific skill. They tend to betray the emperor.

King Leadership isn’t suitable to the modern world of leadership, sometimes, you can find this types of leadership prevails in most Asian country, because they tends to inherit their family business generation by generation, usually to their own son even though they may not have any skills or business knowledge.

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