“Serve first, Lead
second”
At the first, Ken Blanchard said, the world needs a new leadership role model, who are servant leaders. Leadership is an influencer process because we are all influencing each other all the time. So everybody is a leader in their part of life. He said, effective leaders are just good human beings, they care about people.
Clear goals are one of three important things that must be owned by a leader. Because it will help people around you knowing exactly what they need to accomplish and you can do more unbias things to gain your target. The second thing is, as a leader, we need to know what our team feels after they did their job, praise them, and acknowledge all the things that they have done. Listen more than talk, if there is someone who has done the wrong things, the leader will not give some punishment, either he asks for something that he can do to help get back on the track. And we can say it called one-minute redirect, so as a leader and team, we trying to connect what the things that not good as we thought it would be. And as a leader, you are not there to punish him.
A good manager is who have a tight schedule and have intentional in their
behavior. There is a difference between success and significance. Success means
that you have to count how much money we already make, the recognition
that we get from our effort and we always want more and more of them. It’s
different from significant, we are not only talking about money but more of it,
generosity. The opposite of recognition is service and the opposite of power
and status is a loving relationship. Ken said, with all the things that we have
done in our lives, when we are gone, the only thing that we can take with us
is only our own soul, that’s where we are keeping our beloved and who loved you.
Tipe model kepemimpinan seperti ini menurutku cukup relevan untuk dipraktekkan pada era saat ini. Tentunya dengan pertimbangan rentang koordinasi. Semua orang semakin sadar kelebihan dan kekurangan yang ada pada diri mereka, dan kita saling membutuhkan. Status dan jabatan adalah penamaan dalam arti sempit, pemaknaannya dapat lebih dalam. Tapi kembali lagi, setiap leader punya visi misi masing-masing kemana arah gerak sebuah tim. Then, it's up to you, which leadership models that suit to you?
