What is leadership? What are leaders supposed to accmplish ? Are
they supposed to be forceful, pragmatic, or full of good
presentations, rhetorics, concepts and assumptions ?
In this topic, we will examine the unique qualities, abilities or
attributes that leaders should possess in order 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 some qualities or
criteria 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 goals and objectives into implementation
processes to accomplish goals e.g. 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 to avoid self-centred assumptions or
controls that stifle mass participation in knowledge
application.
In whatever actions he takes, a leader must serve the followers
with reliability, or sense of justice, empathy with the poor or
concern with social and economic wellbeing of all.
A leader should be honourable, possess the highest integrity and
not engage in artful arguments or fallacies or rhetorics or empty
promises.
He should understand that the need to strive for social and
cultural progress to sustain conditions for economic vibrancy and
competitiveness of people in their respective fields and would
unleash their skills and talents.
He should practise broad-based practical education for his people
which will lead to widespread application of technology and
knowledge.
In the fast-paced technological age of internet, people need
empowerments of participative processes and facilitation to compete
together as a team. Only when a government is collective and
empowering the people will it lead to development of creative,
entrepreneurial and proactive and practical applications of
knowledge by all in every field.
Leaders who have spent to much of energy in controls and
regulations, or taxing and recovering of costs to the full market
values will cause hardship.
Today's leaders should recognise people are the true partners of
business or enterprise so that the masses could be totally involved
in decision making and working towards results together as a
team.
In this way they can then leverage the many resources at work and
mobilise the people to realize technologicial start-ups and
value-add economic competitiveness which currently could only be
talked about.
Today's leaders should be collective open and consultative
possessing the total functional abililites and total scope and
radar range to cover the whole spheres of social culture and
economic exchanges and leveling up of competitiveness. They should
level up to objective management to avoid self-interests and
obsessive controls which are not consonent with the majoirity's
vibrancy and growth.
Process management lays out duties and responsibilities of the
whole team to enable and empower the team to sustain efficiency and
productivity and entrepreneurship with coordination and application
of knowledge at all level to attain results to attain the
movement's objectives.
