Leadership
Simon Sinek’s Ted talk has good ideas concerning leadership that I may agree to be important in the field of leadership and to those interested in leadership. I like the most important suggestion in this Ted talk that a leader should make the team have a feeling of being secure and should also draw the team in to a circle of trust (Sinek, 2009). The Ted talk describes a leader as someone willing to sacrifice and to serve others. Sinek in his Ted talk discusses of a military captain known as Swenson who received a medal of honor after risking his life into life fire to rescue the wounded soldiers into the helicopter (Sinek, 2009). This is a good quality of leadership which describes serving others. Swenson expresses great love towards the wounded soldiers he was rescuing and according to the Ted talk; he bends over and kisses the wounded soldier. This kind of love is a motivational factor to any team member under any kind of leadership. Without showing the subordinates love, they may not be motivated. It is also agreeable that for a leader to provide security, it takes trust by the followers therefore, trustworthy is also a quality that a leader must possess i.e. must be trusted by the subordinates. I also to some extent disagree with Sinek’s Ted talk. With leadership, there is authority that must be followed and observed and leaders are responsible of giving rules and regulation to govern a given organization. Therefore with the gate agent’s case, she was right to control the passenger boarding of the trip as long as it is one of the rules that must be followed but not as Sinek perceived it.
In the current world of business, when a leader fails to achieve as expected by the organization, it is a normal thing to lay him or her off. This disagrees with Sinek’s conception in the Ted talk as he compares a leader with a child to parent relationship where a parent cannot lay off his or her child in case of changes in the economy (Sinek, 2009). I also agree with Sinek’s example of a manufacturing company that suffered a loss and the CEO suggested that every employee should gave every worker a compulsory unpaid such that all members of the organization suffer instead of a few members of the organization being laid off and suffer for the rest as proposed by the board (Sinek, 2009). This kind of leadership describes a quality of equality where a leader feels the same for his or her subordinates.
Some of the ideas that I plan to put in practice while leading other include leading by example but not by authority. Leaders who lead by example are so influential to their subjects and tend to create a strong relationship with the subjects unlike an authoritative leader who tends to discourage the subordinates and always does not want to listen from them. Flexibility is also an important feature that a leader should possess such that he is able to adjust according to the existing circumstance. As a leader my plan is to be one with full commitment towards the responsibility assigned to me and also go beyond that responsibility as long as it causes a positive impact to the organization. Lastly as a leader I must be always ready and capable of creating a solution in case of any need a rising in the organization to avoid failures.
References
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_why_good_leaders_make_you_feel_safe?language=en
