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Although a position as a manager or supervisor gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks and objectives, this power does not make you a leader…it simply makes you the boss.
Leadership makes people want to achieve high goals and objectives, while, on the other hand, bosses tell people to accomplish a task or objective.
As you point out in the video, only a select few people know ALL the facts, have all the data and so forth.
My employees don’t know my margins, or what I take home, nor should they. But they should have confidence that I care about them and their well being, and that every decision I make is for the greater good.
Early in my career I worked for a staffing company that expanded too fast. The owner/CEO would come in to every company meeting and say how much we were growing and that four months into the year we had already eclipsed our entire revenue from the entire previous year and so on. That continued right up to the day when he ran out of cash and went bankrupt and we all lost our jobs.
This person was certainly popular among the 55 employees, at least until we didn’t get our final paychecks. And even though the business in hindsight was struggling, he never laid anyone off. But there is nothing particularly heroic about steering the ship onto the rocks fully loaded, when jettisoning something along the way could have saved the entire ship.
I remember reading last spring an article in The Economic Times that said leadership is not about popularity, it’s about character and excellence.
“Accountability – that is what leadership is all about. At one level this is appropriate. The buck stops with the job holder. At another level it needs investigation. But leadership is rarely about popularity.”
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