A clear sense of purpose. Self-control, the ability to listen to your intuition

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill.

Many people want to be leaders. But at the same time, many people forget that, in addition to the undoubted “pluses” (power, powers, improved conditions), leadership also has “minuses”, among which one can confidently include increased responsibility.

If, for example, an ordinary seller, having completed the plan, can safely go home, the leader must constantly think about global tasks and methods for their implementation. If each employee is responsible for his personal area of work, then the leader is responsible for the department or company. The leader and performer have absolutely different level tasks.

In addition, it is believed that the working day of a manager consists of unhurried reflection on pre-set questions, planning, and, finally, making decisions.

While in fact it consists of a stream of problems that has neither end nor beginning. Prioritization of urgent issues has to be determined on the go, it is also possible to solve several problems simultaneously, communicate with many people at the same time. At the same time, there is often little time to think about them. But this, mind you, does not remove responsibility!

A leader is an ordinary person with extraordinary determination (saying).

Is a person, understanding all this, ready to take the post of leader? Check yourself now! A real manager will always answer “YES”, thus passing the check at the entrance. Did you answer in the affirmative? In that case, you can continue to read my articles.

Read more about this topic in my book (co-authored with Gali Novikova) - "Leadership and Management".

Leadership is good for health

Scientists have proven that leadership improves immunity. French and American experts have been observing the life of baboons in Kenya for 27 years. The results of their work, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, led to a conclusion that contradicts generally accepted ideas about leadership.

It turned out that baboons with high social status much faster recover from diseases than their fellow tribesmen. It is generally accepted that alpha males, including humans, are more likely to be exposed to stressful situations than other males. This is believed to inevitably have a negative impact on their health. However, in Kenya, scientists have found that this is not entirely true. Indeed, male leaders often find themselves in situations where they need to confirm their status. But this type of stress, on the contrary, “hardens” their body. After such a “shake-up”, their immunity increases and the work of all body systems is stimulated.

Beth Archie of the University of Notre Dame, who led analytical group, spoke about projecting the results of the study on people. The work of scientists has shown that human society the same mechanisms operate as in monkeys. People who hold high positions are much better at stressful situations, even though they are more common.

Whatever we do in business, we deal with people. And these people, our employees, are our reflection. We attract people who we are. A productive person will attract productive, capable - capable, idler (if you have such a recruiter) - idlers.

There are exceptions, it happens that the leader himself can move mountains, works day and night and “in the morning” still manages to revive those who are “blown away” by morning. It sometimes happens that you want to pick up a “Kalashnikov assault rifle” and yet at that moment you realize that the reason for their failures is in yourself. They are you. I am them. And it is a sin to scold them, because it will turn out that you scold yourself, perhaps your past self, and yet yourself.
As a rule, we show emotions in relation to only those “jambs” of our employees that we ourselves once allowed.

Below is an instruction I wrote for the leaders of my organization (slightly "smoothed" for public access). If you like the ideas I have outlined, let your friends read this article. I sincerely want to make this world a little better.

Enjoy reading.

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It will be at least strange to describe the whole technology of working with people and the technology of hiring personnel when all this has already been written and all this is in our office.

We have it in more simple form: in the form of courses adapted to the world of business public organization WEIS.

We have it in a still-still-still simpler form, and, in my opinion, it doesn't get any easier. In the form of instructions written by me and my friends. These instructions are TWO PAGES. I don't think it's that much.

So, instructions are needed.
Still need a permanent and fast hiring, fast learning new employees and placement, a quick apprenticeship period, and all this interspersed with exams, checking the real product on the post and screening failed - exactly in that order, without skipping anything.

Let's add here a few more elements, qualities that any leader must possess in order to be a good leader, and which can be attributed to magic, to the supernatural ability, your talent... anything you want.

These are the elements, these are the qualities:

The executive director must SEE - given to a person or not! It is the ID (executive director, hereinafter referred to as the ID; often this is CEO; any manager at the top of the management of the organization) and the head of the personnel department decide whether it is given to the candidate for a job by fate and life, for example, to sell or not even worth trying. It is given to him to lay bricks - or he should not be allowed even close to bricks, and even more so to people. Is it given to him to keep accounting or is it an empty idea to force this particular "accountant" to fill out a declaration of 4 lines.
Communicate more with candidates and staff members. Understand their manufacturing process. LOOK, not listen, but look - can he do his job or not. Does he give a product or not. Is he here at all? Or it's just the body and its mental "machines" and the guy is stuck a couple of light-years away. Fine! Does he do what you want and within the time frame that you have given him? It doesn't matter if he has instructions or not. You buy from him the result of his labor. Are you satisfied with its result? Are you ready to pay for such a result out of your (your) pocket? If you are not ready to pay out of your own pocket for “such” result, and yet, finding excuses, pay out of the pocket of the business owner, then you, along with this guy who does not give a product, are robbing him. Rob all those employees that give the product. What is right about this?
It is very important to interest a person to receive the product. It is very important to give importance, to make important what it does and what it produces. It is very important to achieve from the employee the desire to break into a cake, but to get, produce what you want and what is determined by his duties. So it will work better.
It is also important to pay for results in a timely manner. Most The best way to ruin the system of payment in the form of interest and make it hated and not accepted is a couple of times not to pay the interest earned on time. You take and, for one reason or another, pay everyone a little bit and only salaries, regardless of the person's real contribution. You do this because there is not enough money and because everyone needs money, everyone needs to live somehow. I congratulate you! Now, the guy who brought you money and did not receive his interest will no longer work and you will not have any money or people at all (including those who had nothing to live on and you “helped” him; only he will run away first, accusing you of bad work).
If the ED said “I will fire everyone who does not give a result in the first two weeks as a manager” - he must fire everyone who does not give a result after 2 weeks (I remind you that hiring should be massive and permanent). If the ID didn’t do it ONE time, didn’t do it the second time (he has his own cockroaches that make him love the proletariat; or maybe he is a communist; or maybe ... I don’t know who he is), well - no one else will work. For what? The ID is good, he will regret and understand.

No. Such an ID will have unhappy people and soon it will have no more people. They will find someone who will ask them, skin them, force them, train them, but achieve production and then pay on time.

People yell, grumble and criticize those who make them work.

But they run away from those they like and go after those who FORCE them to GET THE PRODUCT at any cost. In the depths of their souls, they instinctively understand that the one who hard and cruelly forces them to live is what they need. From their point of view, the one who can “hang” a neighbor because he had bad coffee in the morning is a leader and he must obey and follow him. A democrat who calls for honesty and rationality, who tries to achieve his goal through ethics and reason - will be pelted with rotten eggs and forgotten, and he will die a beggar, in a ditch, forgotten even by his friends. The tyrant, who hanged a third of the nation, will be erected monuments during his lifetime, they will worship, obey, work, receive money and will carry him in their arms. And he, a tyrant and a scoundrel, will build great empire whether it be a commercial organization or a government.

I am not calling you to be scoundrels and scum in order to succeed. I ask you to understand the society in which you live. So far it is exactly as I describe it. Look where our Democrats are now. I personally know Grigory Yavlinsky, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Lukin, Boris Nadezhdin, ... I saw many and talked to many, even if it was a short conversation. But it was informal communication, allowing to understand a person. Okay, let's take G.A. Zyuganov. You know he's smart he is a social democrat. I spent one day with him, in principle, in an informal setting. Why is he or the Democrats not in power? Why are there no more (democrats) in the Duma? Why isn't there any democratic movement. their people do not support. And who is supported? Who are they following? You have received the answers. You have five.

Manage people. Use people. Rearrange them like pieces on a chessboard. Move them. Use them, including for your personal purposes. If you use them, you have them. If you don't use them, they will spit on you, raise a rebellion and find a new owner who will simply use them. Yes, there's more. Someone, reading this order, will begin to be indignant and yell “how dare he treat people like that !!!”, “he treats us like cattle!” - Use it first. Mind-emotion-strength. The mind does not help, turn on the emotion (the force is already at the ready, you are already ready to cut off his head and he sees it), the emotion does not help - turn on the force. The force does not work - “cut off” his head - and he will follow you like a cute one and others, looking at this “bloody mess”, will say: “real boss, I’ll go to work.”
Don't be nice and nice to your subordinates. Keyword MAKE them work. Get production out of them at any cost. Scandals, screams, protests and mass complaints... don't give a damn. Income statistics will save you. And personally, I (remember, I wrote this for my managers), looking at your high income statistics and a growing team, listening to numerous complaints, just smirk to myself and yawn and say ... uuu .., many ..., many .. Certainly…. I'll figure it out and... I'll write you a bonus.
Direct your attention and strength to those who are higher than you in position and who are stronger than you. If you want to be strong, strengthen the one who is stronger than you. Do you want to become powerful - strengthen the power of the one who is stronger than you and do not waste a second on the one who stands and complains about his miserable life. Then, having become powerful, you will send a candy to him by courier. Now, strengthen the one who is stronger. If you want to survive in this crazy world (and that world is crazy), do not try to load the problems and work of someone who is stronger than you. So, strengthen the one who is already strong.

This can be expressed as:

make it so that he has more free time;
never burden him with problems;
don't make it wrong; take his wrong on yourself: “boss, you have nothing to do with it, it’s not you who are to blame for his “death” (maybe without quotes), it was I who slammed him, he dared to look askance in your direction.”
take on as much of his work as you can;

And study L. Ron Hubbard's article "The Responsibility of Leaders", it's about that. And you are in danger, having power or being around someone who is in power. They will not dare to kick him, but they will dare to dare you. You will be kicked, criticized, ridiculed and spat upon. You will not envy! But you are a LEADER and others will follow you.

The world is sweet! Watch TV, especially on weekends. The world is sweet. Everything in it shines and sparkles. But this is only external tinsel, behind which cruelty and violence are hidden. And in this world, as Hubbard wrote, only tigers survive, and even they have a hard time.

The ED is obliged to know and apply the above data and use them for any reason. And the ID must know that if the employee, having studied detailed instructions, describing all his work, and how he should produce something (provided proper learning), requires some more instructions, then nothing can help him. He has grade 4 brain cancer. Send him to "hospice", i.e. thank you. In fact, our society is a big “hospice” and you will add another poor fellow to this “hospice”, but you will have a chance to make this society a little healthier if you don’t have someone around who just does what puts spokes in the wheels of your company.

And God grant us - to achieve our goals and then, to get the same world without wars, crime and violence, where the able will flourish, and the honest will have rights. For now, we have what we have.

So, dear Executive Director, GO!!!

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I never forget anything and sooner or later I return to the topics I once started ...

It must be said that there is still no clear and unambiguous answer to the question of who is an effective and successful leader; what qualities he should have; what means should he use and how should he build a matrix of his strategic goals, tactical tasks and operational efforts?

In order to answer the question, what are the criteria for a successful leader, it is necessary to answer the question, what is “success”?

Some believe that success is the achievement of a goal (or movement in right direction to the target). Others are sure that success is understood as "social recognition" and "good luck in achieving something." Still others believe that success is wealth, fame and (infrequently thought) respect.

Everyone has different values and, accordingly, different views on what counts as success and who counts as a leader. But, by the way, almost everyone agrees that leadership and success should coexist side by side and complement each other as harmoniously as possible.

If we recall science, then at one time “leadership” was understood as a function of the environment, i.e. certain time, place and circumstances, including cultural ones. But this approach ignored individual differences people, explaining their behavior solely by the requirements of the environment. So, according to E. Bogardus, the type of leadership in a group primarily depends on the nature of the group and the problems that it has to solve.

Another scientist, W. Hawking, suggested that leadership is a group function that is transferred to the leader only when the group wishes to follow the program put forward by him.

R. Stogdill and S. Shartle once proposed to describe leadership through the concepts of "status", "interaction", "consciousness" and "behavior" of individuals in relation to other members organized group. Consequently, they see leadership as a system of human relations rather than as a characteristic of an isolated individual.

X. Gert and S. Mills believed that in order to understand the phenomenon of leadership, it is necessary to pay special attention to such factors as the traits and motives of the leader, his public image, the motives of his followers, the features of the leadership role, and also take into account the "institutional context" and "situation" .

D. McGregor developed two whole theories of organizing leadership.

The first, the so-called Theory X, is based on the assumption that individuals are usually passive, opposed to the needs of the organization and therefore need to be directed and "motivated".

The second, Theory Y, is based on the assumption that people are already motivated and seek responsibility, so they need to be organized and directed in such a way that they simultaneously realize their own goals and the goals of the organization. These two theories reflected, in fact, two stages in the development of the organization.

S. Argyris also pointed out the existence of a conflict between the organization and the individual. In his opinion, the nature of the organization involves the structuring of the roles of its members and control over the performance of their obligations. In the nature of man lies the desire for self-realization through the manifestation of initiative and responsibility. This means that effective leadership must take this into account and rely primarily on these qualities.

R. Likert believed that leadership is a relative process, and the leader must take into account the expectations, values, interpersonal skills of subordinates. The leader must make the subordinates understand that organizational process is aimed at their benefit, as it provides them with freedom for responsible and proactive decision-making.

Leadership is Responsibility

My personal opinion, which was formed not immediately, but through experience, suggests that leadership is, first of all, responsibility in a broad sense.

The leader is the leader of a certain group (and this does not contradict the points of view of the "professional husbands" that I mentioned above).

In any social and professional group, the leader must first of all be able to take responsibility for the final result, as well as for certain actions of individual members of the group.

Moreover, if the group achieves success, then the leader must position this success as a common one. That is, each member of the group must feel somehow involved in the success. It is very important.

If there are failures, it is the leader who must take responsibility for them. This is also important. Even more important than "community of success".

A successful leader must be able to effectively manage process, including (and above all) with all its "plus" and "minus" results.

Of course, a clear understanding of the “balance of results” and the ability to master it are not the only criterion for the success of a leader. At the same time, this is the necessary component, without which a person cannot be a leader. Or rather, it can, but not for long ...

Tankhaeva Anastasia

How to become a real leader? This question has worried mankind since time immemorial, because everyone wants to leave a bright mark in history. Therefore, discussions about the essence of leadership have become the main topic of this essay.

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Competitive essay on the topic "I am a leader 21st century".

School Parliament President

GBOU "Republican Mariinsky Boarding School"

Only by owning fire in one's own soul can one set fire to another's soul.

Leonid Leonov, Russian Soviet writer.

How to become a real leader? This question has worried mankind since time immemorial, because, whatever you say, history is the result of deeds prominent people, and everyone wants to leave a bright mark in history. Therefore, discussions about the essence of leadership go back to ancient times, but do not lose their relevance today.

Even Confucius believed that the ruler should honor the "5 beautiful qualities": in kindness not to be wasteful; forcing to work, do not cause anger; not be greedy in desires; be majestic, but not proud; evoke respect in the absence of cruelty.I think that much of the above should be remembered by the modern leader. But it seems to me that, first of all, you need to have a certain goal, a lofty idea, because the closest synonyms for the word "leader" are the words "leader", "leader", "leader". No wonder Maximilian Robespierre, one of the leaders of the Great French Revolution, wrote: "The leader has two important features: firstly, he himself goes somewhere, and secondly, he can lead people."

And further important point: yes, they followed you, but will everyone reach? Therefore, I think real leader forced to balance fine line: be strict but not rude; be friendly, but not weak, modest, but not timid, be firm and confident, but not arrogant, have a sense of humor, but at the same time be tactful. And, most importantly, he must remember that leadership is responsibility. Responsibility to the people who trusted you, and to the work that you do together. That is, there is a direct emotional and moral connection between the leader and those who follow him. An important role in these relationships is played by charisma - the ability to make a strong impression on others, charm. If the leader is charismatic, then not a few people will follow him, the masses will follow him. But the moral responsibility of such a person is much higher.

These are the qualities that a person who has chosen the role of a leader should possess, moreover, I think that these qualities are universal for any era. However, time factors cannot be ignored, because each period human history leaves its mark on everything, including the perception of the leader.

So what should be successful leader in the 21st century? Something remains unchanged: good organizational skills, a developed sense of responsibility, self-confidence, personal charm - this is always valuable. But that's not enough in a world of high information technologies, and today, in my opinion, we also need such qualities that the time itself dictates: the ability to make decisions quickly, insight, the ability to find new ideas. In addition, a modern leader must be able to absorb information from all possible sources and see new opportunities before anyone else. After all, it is not in vain that the proverb that characterizes our age is the words: "Who owns information, he owns the world."

This is, in my opinion, general characteristics a true leader of the 21st century. And I try to follow this ideal, because in order to become successful in the future, you need to nurture and develop these qualities in yourself now. Of course, some may object to me that, they say, leadership skills akin to an ear for music: either a person has them, or he does not have them. I think that to some extent it is. But still, if you do not develop these qualities in yourself, then you can hardly count on high results, after all, not all people with subtle hearing become great musicians. The path of labor, patience and perseverance leads to the heights of success.

That is why I have been a class asset since the first class, for several years in a row I was elected commander of my cool team. Having become a ninth-grader, I took part in the election campaign of the School Parliament, a body student government and took over as minister of culture. Together with other members of the School Parliament, we developed a plan that we implemented throughout the year. I was organizing holiday events, concerts, discos. To be honest, this work took me quite a lot of time and effort, but I saw the result of my work, and it made me happy. I received recognition from the students of our school: at first they simply recognized me, then respected me.

At the start of this school year I tried my hand again in the election of the President of the school Parliament, and I managed to get the largest number votes. I must say that the fight was not easy, but I understand that the main difficulties are ahead. I have to prove that the guys trusted me for a reason, that I really deserve to be called the leader of my school. And I believe that someday I will be able to proudly say about myself: “I am the leader of the 21st century!”