Leadership interview
I had interviewed about leadership with Lee who is the manager of strategic planning in my company. To sum up the interview, he defined that leadership is causing other people to do what the leaders want. That is, leadership is helping other people to rise to their full potential while accomplishing the mission and goals of the organization.
He also illustrate that in order to demonstrate leadership well, honesty and ethical behavior are key value as best leader. Communication with subordinate employee, confidence in leader and followership, all of these are begun from honest of leader. Other important characterize as a best leader he mentioned is ability to delegate. As leader has no sufficient time and ability to deal with variety of works, leader should delegate many jobs to subordinate employees. He emphasized that leader must delegate power of decision-making as well as works. Additionally, through delegate power of decision-making, necessary information that the subordinate employee has for creating good result are gained.
He also argues that leader should show different leadership depending on situation and employee, and if leader cannot be flexible in their leadership style, he or she will fail. He talk about his experience that there were two team members, and their job was similar in the team and they are also similar age and same level, but their performance was different. Thus, he thought that he should be treated differently. However, he was confused between equal treatment and fair treatment. And he said that empirically equal treatment is easier than fair treatment. Because fair treatment, requires the leader to continually assess performance and react to employees in a manner specific to each employee and situation.
He also mentioned that leadership cannot be existed without followers and followership. In other word, leadership can be completed by followership. In order to make many good follower, he said, leader’s instruction has to be
He also illustrate that in order to demonstrate leadership well, honesty and ethical behavior are key value as best leader. Communication with subordinate employee, confidence in leader and followership, all of these are begun from honest of leader. Other important characterize as a best leader he mentioned is ability to delegate. As leader has no sufficient time and ability to deal with variety of works, leader should delegate many jobs to subordinate employees. He emphasized that leader must delegate power of decision-making as well as works. Additionally, through delegate power of decision-making, necessary information that the subordinate employee has for creating good result are gained.
He also argues that leader should show different leadership depending on situation and employee, and if leader cannot be flexible in their leadership style, he or she will fail. He talk about his experience that there were two team members, and their job was similar in the team and they are also similar age and same level, but their performance was different. Thus, he thought that he should be treated differently. However, he was confused between equal treatment and fair treatment. And he said that empirically equal treatment is easier than fair treatment. Because fair treatment, requires the leader to continually assess performance and react to employees in a manner specific to each employee and situation.
He also mentioned that leadership cannot be existed without followers and followership. In other word, leadership can be completed by followership. In order to make many good follower, he said, leader’s instruction has to be