Defining Leadership

The conception of leadership is that the leader is to command a group whether it is employees in organization or a member of a team, give orders and see the work done. Your ability to command and run a business or a team is understood as the only quality of a leader. What you need for being a good commander is a strong mental power and your ability to tell the employees stubbornly that you want your orders to be fallowed and completed in a particular time frame. Your work will be done as you said and still you will see that you are not doing as good as your competition are doing. Your finance will call you and tell that the cost of your man hour is much more than your competition.

What went wrong and how?

A manager by his qualification and experience is competent in a particular area like Finance, Purchase, Sales or Maintenance. A good overall leader should know everything a bit and understand how it works in a company for the interest of every one and the growth of the company. I am not telling that you go to university and study each subject. You must understand that your job as the leader is not only to give orders but in the hierarchy of business management this is called Top Down method. A team on the whole consists of experts in different fields you will notice in a period of time that you have lots of followers who simply fallow your instructions and obey your orders. They will always go about their work spending time by thinking how you will like the result to be put to you instead of thinking how the order is going to help you in improving the sales or purchase or to overall growth of the company. Instead try and do the thing differently. Prepare a report what you want from the group to achieve your goal. Then call a meeting and discuss with every one individually and seek their advice and inputs and give them the limit you have to complete the job. The results will be astonishingly different. The same job which used takes a month or so will be completed by the same set of people within 15 to 20 days.

This is because people are more interested in pleasing their leader and if the leader is only interested in a set of people who always say “YES BOSS” and fallow the instructions does not always use their brain to do the work needed to be done and always tried to fallow the instructions given to them. Instead when you started giving importance to them and started seeking advice on how to go about in doing the work, each one of them has started putting their brain power to use.

Conclusion:

You will be good leader not just by commanding a group but by understanding individual, their ability, their knowledge and giving importance to their capacity to do their work on their own with a guidance and direction and not just by commanding.