Ben SimontonPresident| Simonton AssociatesSun City Center, Fl, United States
Most executives and managers can only dream of having a workforce of fully engaged, highly motivated, highly committed employees having high morale and literally loving to come to work. These people apply 100% of their brainpower on their work thus unleashing their full potential of creativity, innovation, and productivity.
But actually, their dream is quite easy to achieve if they could turn away from the autocratic and bureaucratic approach to one of autonomy and support. Why? Because any form of autocracy and bureaucracy naturally tends to demotivate and demoralize employees, the exact opposite of what we need.
The second step is to understand what motivates us. This was revealed by the research of psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Best regards, Ben Simonton
Leadership is a science and so is engagement
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Ken VaughnPartner| Industrial Fabrication Consultants LLPCharleston, Sc, United States
To answer the question, if you search definitions of "Leadership", you'll spend hours reading the thoughts of some of the greatest minds in human history but one of my personal favorites is this one;
"The superior leader gets things done with very little motion. He imparts instruction not through many words but through a few deeds. He keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all. He is a catalyst, and though things would not get done well if he weren’t there, when they succeed he takes no credit. And because he takes no credit, credit never leaves him."
Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching
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Ben SimontonPresident| Simonton AssociatesSun City Center, Fl, United States
Thanks for that, Ken. I have always loved that quote.
BUT - it does not tell us what leadership is, only what it accomplishes. And that is true of almost every other definition I have read over my lifetime, every one except mine. My people gave me mine by telling me what it is they follow. Saving Changes...
