Just yesterday 14 May 2007 I met and talked to a CEO of company so-and-so in Jakarta. One interesting thing about him is the way he perceives what HR Department should do to improve the company’s workforces. Here is the excerpt:
The staffs should value work-ethos more and more, otherwise they will not learn anything. He gives his own example of being ‘generous’ in giving up his own time to someone else who demands his time for just a ‘short’ phone calls. But then the phone calls are not short at all. One thing – in my opinion – is wrong here. When he generously gives her own time to someone (else), she forgets that others (maybe her staffs) who are on the long queue ‘sacrifice’ their time just to wait. Regardless to how urgent or how important the phone calls are, the modern principle of corporate worlds has been denied here, that is the so-called efficiency and effectiveness.
Stephen Covey teaches us how to become an effective individual, to ourselves and to others. This is the first step before embarking on the next: from effective to great. Leadership can translate its own term into EXAMPLE. If we give bad example, we don’t necessarily lose our leadership entitlement, simply we just add one more word before the word LEADER, that is BAD LEADER. The same thing happens when we give good example. We might be still a leader, whether we give bad or good example. But what kind of leader we want to be?
In this nano-technology age, human participation is gradually taken over by machines and artificial intelligence. We create something that potentially de-create us. Our attitude on human leadership should be firm and clear, or we might need to ask advises from a computer program on how to do something. What a crippled world!
The CEO of the company so-and-so that I met yesterday is a smart-professional, but certainly is not a noble-man by any leadership standard. I talk only about one issue here – generosity in time, and I already manage to set a conclusion about him. His time will come soon when he sees that leadership demands good examples, or else, who knows what lies ahead?
The staffs should value work-ethos more and more, otherwise they will not learn anything. He gives his own example of being ‘generous’ in giving up his own time to someone else who demands his time for just a ‘short’ phone calls. But then the phone calls are not short at all. One thing – in my opinion – is wrong here. When he generously gives her own time to someone (else), she forgets that others (maybe her staffs) who are on the long queue ‘sacrifice’ their time just to wait. Regardless to how urgent or how important the phone calls are, the modern principle of corporate worlds has been denied here, that is the so-called efficiency and effectiveness.
Stephen Covey teaches us how to become an effective individual, to ourselves and to others. This is the first step before embarking on the next: from effective to great. Leadership can translate its own term into EXAMPLE. If we give bad example, we don’t necessarily lose our leadership entitlement, simply we just add one more word before the word LEADER, that is BAD LEADER. The same thing happens when we give good example. We might be still a leader, whether we give bad or good example. But what kind of leader we want to be?
In this nano-technology age, human participation is gradually taken over by machines and artificial intelligence. We create something that potentially de-create us. Our attitude on human leadership should be firm and clear, or we might need to ask advises from a computer program on how to do something. What a crippled world!
The CEO of the company so-and-so that I met yesterday is a smart-professional, but certainly is not a noble-man by any leadership standard. I talk only about one issue here – generosity in time, and I already manage to set a conclusion about him. His time will come soon when he sees that leadership demands good examples, or else, who knows what lies ahead?
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