The Prime Minister's Powerful Better Half
After reading The Prime Minster Powerful Better Half no I would not describe Ho Ching as an influential leader. According to the textbook influence can be defined as “the change in a target agent attitudes, value, beliefs, or behaviors as the result of influence tactics.” In order for you to understand my point of view I must specify what influence tactics are. “Influence tactics refer to one personal actual behaviors designed to change another person’s attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors.” In this mini case not once did it express Ho Ching’s abilities to change behaviors of others or her own. Yes, she is the CEO of Temasek but not once was there an example giving about other staff in the company, or in what manner she influenced anything beneficial to the staff. Meaning the title of CEO doesn’t directly correlate with the influence of others. A CEO can show up to work every day and not communication with the staff in the office. Next, as we learned early in the class a leader is someone who bring positive change. Ho great idea for positive change was the release of Temasek annual reports. As stated in the case “under Ho’s leadership Temasek has decided to publicly disclose its annual report with details of its performance.” This is a positive change which would make Ho’s a leader. But honestly this isn’t very important. The annual report is less important because, in the USA under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) every company annual reports are publicly displayed via the internet. So I would not view this as a vast achievement. Although this is what the whole mini case is centered on. Ho’s has made it to CEO status but once again this case never points out any way that she has influenced the value of others. Also the one leadership task that she did take on wasn’t enough to convince me that she did something drastic. For the reasons giving above I am not convinced that Ho is an influential leader.
Based on the experts from Ho Ching’s speech
Based on the experts from Ho Ching’s speech