Leaders sometimes have to fight and do their best at everything because…
The leaders have to prove that they have to … ‘consensus’ with the staff members.
But forget that the opportunity cost of doing this is much higher than being a true leader for periods 1-10.
When leaders help companies run themselves, they don’t stop working, but they do. there will be time to focus on only 4 things:
1. Really become a spiritual leader, not just a manager with the nature of killing and doing the RIGHT work.
When a leader acts as both a leader and a professional manager, it becomes difficult for a leader to be gentle to maintain an image of modesty or be strong to display majesty to pull the train forward.
2. Build a corporate culture with dedication, thoroughness and time to be careful in choosing who, hiring and how to behave if your employees do not follow the company’s core values. Leaders realize that culture is a competitive advantage, but this advantage is not easily built in a short time without really getting it right and requires serious effort.
3. Building relationships at the right level to have enough information about the external situation, to adjust the strategy to suit: Social, political, economic, technological and information trends from the front line. head (go to action) to argue against the vocational education and training levels or the head of the department.
4. Develop and finalize targets, goals, vision and strategies in the fourth quarter of each year based on data and strategic indicators (16 – 20 indicators) to come up with accurate, proactive and effective strategies. help all levels understand the strategy and implement, adjust, and prevent risks from happening or avoid things that are not strong enough to burn money but not bring effective results correctly and maximum.
When the leader of a large-scale startup is part-time, self-aware, self-regulating, have instant access to information, and if there is a wrong decision, the leader corrects himself and the loss is less severe.
When the company is large and decentralized, a wrong decision of the leader can affect a lot:
– Prestige, image, gestures and behavior of the leader.
– Violating core values of the organization
– Losing money
– Loss of people
– And other risks are not yet seen.
Therefore, from the 0 – 1 stage to the 1 – 10 stage, it requires a lot of change in approach thinking and old working habits, as well as the old competency dictionary into a competency dictionary. in the new period, which requires a lot of readiness of both the leadership, middle managers and employees.
Self-operating does not mean doing nothing, self-operating means that the organization realizes the responsibility, role and importance of liberating leaders so that their leaders do the right roles and tasks, right the ability to say no to what not to do in order to return them to their rightful place.
That is a leader.
At the stage when you apply for a job and say … stop, boss, don’t do this, take care of your boss’s work.
Then perhaps the organization has had to go through a lot of stages of conflict, struggle, training and development, right?