Apr 222012
Last Updated on 22/04/2012
Could one of the traits of a good leader be erasing and ignoring stereotypes?
Not trying to espouse and pose a rhetorical question, but exploring the question.
Can a good leader erase clichés from his or her thought process and instead turn to assessment, listening, understanding, experiencing and learning instead?
Here are some:
- Men are better executives.
- Men are more aggressive salespeople
- Immigrants do not do as well because they do not have local experience.
- People who work from home are lazing.
- ‘Command & Control’ gets better results than caring and accommodating.
The point is that these might be true for some people some of the time, but blanket statement and generalities are just that. A good leader listens and understands and draws conclusions based on information – not general and vague assumptions.
And there goes one cliché that needs to bite the dust: being cooperative and helpful detracts from the ‘executiveness’ of a person!
What a pelaurse to find someone who identifies the issues so clearly
My view is Leader and manager are complement of each other .To become a manager there should be a quality of leadership because without leading the things no one can become manager and in the same way to become a leader there is need of managment.eg. If i want to lead myself ,then i need to manage myself first. Without management no one can Lead .in other words managment is the foundation of leadership.e.g.Leading company always have good management.Answer of your above defined problem: Here project manager manage the project and give assignment to his/her project leader.Project leader again manage the things and assign it to their team members so we can say project leader is indirectly a manager as well as leader also .so we can not blame that leader reports to manager ,indirectly manager reports to manager.