For 40 years citizens are told of leadership qualities of their
leaders. Do our leaders possess such qualities? Let all pause for a
while in the new year of 2006 to ponder over what they want of
their leaders.
What is leadership? What are leaders supposed to do or accomplish ?
Are they supposed to be people with good presentations, rhetorics,
concepts and assumptions ?
Are our leaders expected to be pragmatic and cut corners to serve
their own purposes?
They should possess abilities or attributes required to solve
diverse problems, set direction and unite people into taking
collective actions to strive for maximum good of the maximum
number.
In my personal opinion, the following are qualities required of the
leaders:-
(1) Passion,
(2) Ability to Motivate followers,
(3) Ability to get people to work with coordination and apply
knowledge.
(4) Ability to translate complex goals and ideas into
implementation processes to bring about competitiveness, technology
start-ups and jobs etc.
(5) Invest monies and perform tasks with Accountability and
Transparency
(6) Collective leadership by core team to make major
decisions,
(7) Sense of integrity free from theoretical assumptions or
controls that stifle mass participation in knowledge
application.
A leader should first possess the passion to serve his followers as
servant with reliability, or sense of justice, empathy to attain
social and economic wellbeing of all.
He should be honourable, possess integrity and not engage in artful
arguments or fallacies or rhetorics or empty promises.
He should understand the needs and aspirations of people in the
social and cultural sphere and the linkage between social and
economic vibrancy in their respective fields to nurture and unleash
their skills and talents.
A leaders should provide his people with broad-based practical
education to facilitate widespread application of technology and
knowledge.
He should empower people to work for results through participative
processes to enable all to compete together as a team.
He should practise collective leadership among his senior staff so
as to produce teamwork that is creative, entrepreneurial and
proactive in every field.
A leader should avoid engaging in petty controls and regulations,
or double taxing and recovering of costs to full market values that
will cause hardship.
He leader should regard people as true partners so that the whole
team could be totally involved in decision making and effective
implementation working towards results.
Above all a leader should motivate his followers in maximizing the
utilization of resources to realize innovations, entrepreneurship,
application of knowledge and value-add competitiveness.
Objective-Steps Process management lays out all the leadership,
processes that empowers the management team to sustain efficiency
and productivity and entrepreneurship with coordination and
application of knowledge at all levels to attain results and
objectives.