Very often, we may hear leaders talking about leaderships,
talents, or abilities in running a business or country.
So what is leadership or talent ? Is it something effective or
attainable or only some kind of good-looking packaging of
self-centred concepts or ideas.
Presumably leaders should possess uniques abilities or attributes
to set direction and unite people to take collective actions or
make sacrifices to strive for progress. In order to be effective
leaders they have to possess the extra ability to motivate people
in knowledge application, teamwork, diligence or sacrifice for the
country. They themselves are expected to set good example to act
honorably and carry out their words, promises and policies.
Upon closer examination, many leaders are found unable to fulfill
their words of honour nowadays, or turn their concepts and
assumptions into mananageable processes to realise hands-on
efficiency, competitiveness, excellence, reliability, or sense of
justice, empathy with the poor or concern with social and economic
wellbeing of all ?
The most common fault today with leaders is that they tend to rely
on concepts and assumptions, rhetorics and presentations and fail
to live up to their expectations of the people or followers.
Hence there is a need for leaders to be fully aware of the dangers
of relying on presentations, concepts or assumptions which often
end up as broken promises and setbacks to their followers.
Good leaders must be people who are equally adept with skills of
practical implementation. They must understand that people have
needs and desires to succeed in their respective fields and
positions and they must be motivated to unleash their skills and
apply their talents before they could contribute meaningfully to
work together for common good.
Without laying out goals, and policies in implementation processes
tasks will be entangled in complexities and uncertainties which
cause office politics and conflicts. To that extent tasks are
entangled in complexities or uncertainties, there will be problems
with application of knowledge and development of technology.
It is critical to motivate the masses in applications of knowledge
and technologies, while dispensing with judgmental conceptual and
rhetorical management. At the same time, masses should be motivated
to apply skills through broad-based practical education which will
lead to widespread application of technology and knowledge.
In the fast-paced technological age of internet and instant
telecommunication, it is urgent to get people to develop their
skills and knowledge to be creative, entrepreneurial and proactive,
and seize opportunities at practical applications of knowledge by
all in every field.
Because of past conceptual approaches, there have been too many
policy failures which caused the slow-down of the economy and
unhappiness of the people. As a result, govenrment has to extend
controls and regulations, and increasing the taxing and recovering
of costs to the full market values thereby causing hardship.
Today's technology-age leadership should consist of the following
criteria:-
(1) Translate goals and objectives into implementation processes to
empower all workers to maximize their knowledge applications, to
create competitiveness, technology start-ups and jobs.
(2) Collective leadership and good corporate governance to avoid
self-centred narrow top-down conceptual management that stifle mass
participation in knowledge application, implementation of ideas and
growth.
Today's leadership should possess the clear practical ability to
motivate people to become 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.
No matter how brilliant, the concept of a few talents at the top of
organization is too narrow the leadership approach. 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. Not only that, it encourages self-interests
and controls which are not consonent with the majoirity's vibrancy
and growth.
Process management can be set up to lay out works and challenges to
empower all to work collectively with coordination and application
of knowledge at all level to attain results on their own without
all the hype, excuses to justify past mistakes and lack of
performance.
