Jazz and Shifting Nature of Leadership
Reflecting on the perfect way of controlling people, I realized that the very phrase “controlling people” is a wrong approach to conceptualizing an expectation of relative order that is usually shared by the members within the same organization. Some people may prefer working in chaos; however, it is not a conventional method for organizing teamwork. I understood that the notion of control loses its positions due to the fact that business enterprises start to realize that control has very little or no value in itself. It is absolutely necessary for accountability and a proper working rhythm, basically, for obtaining and checking the results. I believe that employees with a solid work ethic need a clear understanding of why these or those rules exist rather than control the situation. However, this approach to interpreting the changes may be also caused by a generational feature.
Furthermore, in numerous places on the web I saw that currently workers do not have loyalty at their work placements. Some people may attribute this trend to globalization and greater mobility of people and information, while others tend to relate it to the features inherent in the generation of millenials. To my way of thinking, the lack of loyalty towards certain organization is worth acknowledging, because this happens when we gain the chance to make our concept of loyalty in business more human-oriented.
Proposing Leadership – 10 propositions
Considering the ten propositions that may help become an energy-giver and a stress-absorber, I faced some difficulties with Proposition 5 which is “Thou shalt be authentic.” To begin with, detailed knowledge of oneself is not only a challenging but also a controversial matter. We should be alert and attentive enough to spot the moment when his/her current answer to the question “Who and what are you?” stops fitting inner and outer contexts. Human being is not a static object with the fixed set of characteristics. In the best scenario, we spend most of the 100,000 hours of our careers evolving. Thus, knowing oneself is not a state, but rather the process of self-observation, self-acceptance, and self-correction.
I observed a small acknowledgement of my way to unpack “authenticity” by means of analyzing other propositions. It perfectly correlates with the idea of excellent situation-sensing skills, essentially meaning the same thing but directed toward the inner nature of one’s personality. I feel intellectually inspired with this interpretation: according to my perception, authentic leader will be able to detect the danger of total exhaustion both in himself/herself and in his/her colleagues. What is more, he/she will probably feel comfortable even being in the center of attention and will not be paralyzed by own shortcomings.
