Jumat, 21 Oktober 2011

ART OF LEADERSHIP

Real leadership is not determined by rank or position a person. Leadership is something that comes from within and is the fruit of one's decision to want to be a leader, both for himself, for his family, for the working environment, as well as for social environment and even to his country.This is said with a straightforward by a general from the United States Air Force:
"I do not think you have to bewearing stars on your shoulders or a title to be a leader. Anybody Who Wants to raise his hand can be a leader any time. "Ronal-General Fogleman, U.S. Air Force-
Leadership is a decision and more a result of the change in character or in a person's internal transformation. Leadership is not position or title, but a birth of a long process of change in a person. When someone found a vision and mission of his life, when there is peace within ourselves (inner peace) and form a solid character building, when every utterance and action began to give effect to the environment, and when existence is driving changes in the organization, that's when a person is born a leader True. So the leader is not just a title or position is given from the outside but something that grows and develops from within oneself. Leadership is born of internal processes (leadership from the inside out).When one day the Chinese philosopher, Lao Tsu, was asked by his disciples about who the real leader, he replied:As for the best leaders, the people do not notice Their existence.The next best, the people honorAnd praise.The next, the people fear, And the next the people hate.When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'We did it Ourselves'.
Instead a true leader is often not known to exist by those they lead. Even when the mission or task completed, then all team members would say that they who do it themselves. True leader is an encourager (encourager), motivator, inspiration, and maximizer.The concept of thinking like this is something new and may not be accepted by conventional leaders who actually expect respect and praise (honor and praise) of those they lead. The more commendable even cult, the higher the heart and am left forgotten a leader. Precisely true leadership is leadership that is based on humility (humble).Lessons about humility and true leadership can be obtained from the life story of Nelson Mandela. A great leader of South Africa, who brought his people from a racist country, a democratic and independent country.I witnessed in a TV talk show hosted by popular presenter Oprah Winfrey, Nelson Mandela tells how that during 27 years in prison suffering apartheid government, it gave birth to a change in him. He changed the character and gaining peace in him. So he became a man of humble and willing to forgive those who have to suffer for years.As said by a famous author, Kenneth Blanchard, that leadership begins on the inside and out to serve those they lead. Change the character is everything for a true leader. Without a change from within, peace without self, without humility, without a strong integrity, endurance of hardship and challenges, and a clear vision and mission, a person will never be a true leader.
Character A True LeaderEach of us has the capacity to become leaders. In this paper I introduce a kind of leadership that I call with Q Leader. Leadership Q in this case has four meanings. First, Q means intelligence or intelligence (as in IQ - intellectual intelligence, EQ - Emotional Intelligence, and SQ - Spiritual Intelligence). Q Leader means a leader who has the intelligence of IQ-EQ-SQ is quite high. Second, Q Leader means leadership that has the quality, both from the aspect of visionary and managerial aspects.Third, Q Leader means a leader who has qi (pronounced 'chi' - Mandarin, which means life energy). Q The fourth meaning is as popularized by KH Abdullah Gymnastiar as qolbu or inner self. A true leader is someone who truly recognize him (her qolbu) and can manage and control (self-management or management qolbu).Q Being a leader means being a leader is always learning and growing constantly to reach a level or levels of Q (intelligence - quality - qi - qolbu) higher in the effort to achieve the mission and goals of the organization and the achievement of the meaning of the life of every person of a leader.To close this article, I summarize the leadership of Q in three important aspects, and I briefly became 3C, namely:1. Changes the character of the self (character change)2. A clear vision (clear vision)3. High ability or competence (competence)The third case was based on an attitude of discipline to continually grow, learn and grow both internally (the development of intrapersonal skills, technical skills, knowledge, etc.) or in conjunction with others (interpersonal skills development and leadership methods).As John Maxwell said: "The only way that i can keep leading is to keep growing. The day I stop growing, somebody else takes the leadership baton. That is the way it always it. "The only way for me to remain a leader is I have to constantly grow. When I stop growing, others will take over the leadership

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