In the contest between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, the contest of personal leadership is self-evident. What is personal leadership in the world? What qualities do you have to be the CEO of the United States? It's a great surprise that Trump, who has no political experience, full of talk and life, won the Republican candidate and won the president's throne. He was full of boastful and inconsistent hooliganism and threatened to build a high wall on the border between the United States and Mexico and launch a trade war against China. Is Trump's self-directed image of "personal leadership" not a rule of ridicule of traditional leadership?
Is personal leadership a natural endowment or a nurturing of the day after tomorrow?
German sociologist Webb divided leadership into "charismatic" and "bureaucratic". Human society admired personal charm in the tribal stage, characterized by bravery, determination, high IQ, instrument and so on. Later, due to the construction of the regulatory system, leaders should operate under a specific framework, so reason and experience More important. However, the worship of strong leadership has been written in the human genome, though it is irrational. Sometimes, charm can overwhelm everything.
The personal leadership of the business and political circles may have the same in the abstract, so Mao Zedong and Zeng Guofan have been on the cover of books that seem to have the leadership of governing the country and use it in corporate governance.
What is the quality of leadership in the end? Jeffrey Fifer (Jeffrey Pfeffer), a professor who has long taught the Stanford University business school, has collected more than 200 definitions from experts in the book "Leadership BS". Sometimes the definition of individual leadership in the same discourse, on the contrary, is not only decisive but also resilient; it has to be a firm belief and a broad view; the leader is a good manager, and it can go beyond the framework of management and have a macro view of a strategically advantageous position. Positive and negative dialectics, say it is not to say.
According to statistics, the United States spends 4 billion dollars per year on personal leadership training, which is a major industry. The premise of its theory and practice is that leadership is not innate, but can be trained. The function of leadership is to lead the group to complete a specific job. So the master of management stated that an excellent leader can stimulate the potential of his subordinates to be willing to serve their lives, and the ordinary managers can only ask for the rewards and punishments of "carrots and sticks". A successful leader has the virtues of modesty, sincerity, expression, trustworthiness, selflessness and so on, and seldom uses punishment to achieve his goal.
Since personal leadership is acquired through learning, people can be Yao and Shun, so in a group, those who are able to exert influence and drive others to do things are the actual leaders, although they have no title and power. In this way, an equal spirit is injected into the company's organization, which can reduce the friction caused by some grades. Personal leadership training has the function of "edification", so that middle-level employees believe that their superiors have all these virtues.
The role of personal charm in leadership can not be underestimated
Most of these "leadership skills" belong to the paper. However, for enterprises, the charm of leaders should not be underestimated. Leaders are the personified image of the company, especially for listed companies. Star leaders often bring high media attention to the company in the short term. In an era of star pursuit, the board of directors gives high expectations to the star CEO, which often appears in the media. However, too much emphasis on personal charm and lack of corresponding skills will lead to disappointment sooner or later. YAHOO chief executive officer, blonde beauty Meijer, charismatic personality, but a series of money purchase, not only did not twist the world, but a big hurt, the company bid for the sale of the main business, few bidders, and low bid. By contrast, the success of Apple Corp founder Jobs is not just charismatic. He is unequivocal in the process, from collecting information on the future technology, judging competitors, setting goals and selecting teams, executing plans, making every step of marketing, and ultimately making apple the highest market value. One of the listed companies.
Personal leadership training is a technical training, focusing on effective listening, understanding each other by identifying each other's character characteristics to find potential value to balance mutual interests. When communicating with students, some people express the confusion of the concept of personal leadership, and think that there is a gap between a set and a set of learning, especially on the principle of sincerity. The leader is often a small person who is narcissistic, obstinate and stabbed at the back with a knife in the struggle for and use of power. Leadership and power are inseparable. The use of power is to put their will on top of the LED team to accomplish the task. My answer is that employees' expectations of leaders should be based on reality. Too much real Dehua will lead to the weakening of trust. It is best to refer to data and facts, rather than using virtual standards to measure personal leadership.
The best manifestation of political leadership is how to deal with crises. In a climate of public unrest, how can leaders stabilize their positions and turn defeat into victory? In the United States general election, we must first have a crisis, even if there is no crisis, to create a crisis. First of all, Trump stressed the background of the panic of the people: the California robbing and the Middle East.