Being a leader
This was just sent to me and wanted to share it.
We can learn a lot from creatures in the wild.
We can learn a lot from creatures in the wild.
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What do you mean by that?
"Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which an individual interacts with others – either in a management or fellow employee capacity – with the aim of achieving authority rather than power. The authority figure intends to promote the well-being of those around him or her."
Well, by this description, Hussein was a "servant leader", being a community organizer. He made a disastrous president.
Good post. Thank yhoever sent it to you.
+1
Both management and leadership are valuable and necessary within an organization. Some amount of both can be taught, but the best of each are innately talented. And a very few can do both. Those individuals are rare indeed.
"It does not make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; hire smart people and let them tell you what to do."
Regarding Jobs, now he is remembered with great respect. But I read his bio, and followed many accounts on his leadership. He was controversial and was accused of micromanagement.
It is an ominous fact how often true leaders are tripped up, ignored or outright attacked for their abilities to give room for faux characters who know how to manipulate people.
I like the quote and picture.
I do not think that the leader always belongs in the rear, though the rest of the structure makes sense. It also must be taken into consideration that the purpose of that lineal organization is narrow: to protect the pack and get from one place to another; maybe to hunt on the way (I do not know enough about wolves to know if they hunt whilst they travel or if they wait until they establish their next base camp before hunting).
The leader sometimes has to get up front and lead. Because he is leader, the pack will follow him.
Also: my experience is the opposite of the Steve Jobs quote. Were I to make that quote accurate, I would have to add words. Jan's version: It does not make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; hire Motivated, Perceptive and Wise smart people and let them tell you what Their Ideas Are to do. Then, using the greater vision that being the boss gives you, decide if their ideas are right or if they are too limited.
Oh yeah, if you do not find the magical 'motivated, perceptive, and wise smart people' then you have to make do with what you have and use ingenuity to compensate for missing attributes.
Jan
Of course the leader gets to the front, more often than not. But his role, as characterized by CircuitGuy above is more of a vision and establishing conditions in which people are able to perform to the best of their abilities.
He said repeatedly that he'll take the slings and arrows for us. And he has been steadfastly doing that.
God give him strength to persevere. A lesser character would have been crashed long ago. It was not for lack of trying from the left.