Now that Aug 22 is over, done with assignment 1, assignment 2 deadline is exactly 1 month from today... This assignment asks that we compare "leadership" before and after we have gone through this unit... in 4000 words! Some may think this is challenging, but technically this is chicken feet! With lots to spare too! Let's take the longer version "leadership", we scramble it and compute its permutation (or "roll" for 4D pundits). So the number of ways in which "leadership" can be re-arranged is:
l e a d e r s h i p, l e a d e r s h p i, l e a d e r s i h p, ..., p i h s r e d a e l = n! = 3628800
See, since I only need 4000, I can lease out the remaining 3624800! Ok ok, I know I'm talking nonsence... but this is what "leadership" has done to me!
On a serious note, as I talked about "erosion of leadership" in my previous post, I shall not repeat those. Before I did this unit, leadership" was largely taken for granted based on its generally accepted meaning. Leadership style, leader behaviour etc were like textbook answers. As long as we learn and practise those styles and behaviour, we will be closer to exhibiting good leadership. Now that I am in the middle of this unit, it became apparent that our understanding of leadership may have been overly one-sided. In other words, the focus and practise of leadership has been entirely leader-centric. Indeed, a significant proportion of leadership research are leader-centric.
A number of scholars however, argued that by being leader-centric, we may have unknowingly omitted a most important paradigm to better our understanding of leadership; the views of followers. I think there is much to be discovered if we shift our paradigm to look at leaders from the vantage point of followers. Afterall, whether or not a leader is a good or a bad one depends on the perception of followers (or potential ones). Since leaders do not only attract followers, they also attract enemies too. So no matter how agile a leader is in exhibiting the best style and behaviour to best suit a given situation, not everyone perceive them the same way; some love 'em, some hate 'em.
For now, this perhaps will be my entree into assignment 2... definitely not "pihsredael".
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