LEADING IN NEW ECONOMY

Sir,
 
Leadership is one thing that the whole world would pay its most precious price for. If there is anytime the world has needed it so much, it is now. The family is desperate for the mother who will teach her children the principles of success; the father who will raise his children under the banner of truth and virtue. Every institution and every nation must have a leader for guidance. For a ship is safe on the harbour, but that’s not what ships are made for.

Goal

On this subject, Chris Haggerty, a leading management consultant, said; “The goal of most leaders is to get the person to think highly of them as a leader, but the goal of the exceptional leader is to get the person to think highly of themselves.” The effective leader gets a lot done day by day, week by week, and month after month because he doesn’t mind who gets the credit. He accepts intelligent suggestions of the people he works with or leads, as long as it will benefit the organisation or institution and he goes on to give credit where it is due, hence the employee or those he leads are encouraged to use their ingenuity knowing that their contribution is rewarded. A good leader must also know how to be a good follower. For this leader doesn’t mind about who is right, but he is concerned about what’s right. He is fully aware that everyone’s idea is from one infinite source of supply (Universal Intelligence - God) and therefore genuinely recognises and reverences the ingenuity of others.

Credit

Andrew Carnegie, a steel mogul, observed: “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.” This leader doesn’t get threatened by any of those he leads when they upgrade themselves by going back to class. He doesn’t feel like his position is no longer safe. In fact, he does encourage those he leads or his employees to develop themselves by facilitating and or paving the ground for their growth. He generates an atmosphere in which others feel at ease and very much appreciated. He is good with human relations. This is unlike the leader who, when the staff had to be trained, asked the question: “What if we train them and they all leave?” to which the other leader replied: “What if we don’t train them and they all stay!” The latter is the representation of a leader in the new economy – he is very liberal and progressive. I’m sure you see that often times the difference in institutions and organisations is leadership.

Being a man of grit, a good leader has a high revolved will. No wonder Emerson said; “The education of the will is the object of our existence.” This leader, as Andrew Carnegie would have it, puts all his eggs in one basket, then watches the basket. He is a kind of sponge for information which aids him along the road of his life. His life is ‘a reservoir of power on which he can constantly draw, which will never fail him in any emergency’. He is sure that he has stored away, in his power-house, the energy, the knowledge that will be equal to the great occasion when it comes.

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