A Good Leader

I always get bored when I had to read the book of leadership in college. All the literatures, theories, definitions and other things make me sleepy before I could finish read the book. But for me, three key points of being a good leader are self improvement, responsibility, and communication. These three key points construct these seven principles of a leader to gain respect from his/her followers. These seven principles are:

• Servant. A good leader is a servant. A good leader serves his/her team members to help them achieving their tasks with professional responsibilities.
• Self improvement. A good leader must well know every single of your job and your member’s tasks. Self improvement is unavoidable. A good leader maintains his/her learning process through self study, reflection or other people experiences, and attending classes.
• Responsibility. Accept the failure. If anything’s go wrong, sooner or later, do not blame others. A good leader had never blamed his/her team members, except him/her self. Analyze the situation; find the right answer for this particular situation. A good leader responsible for the accomplishment of his/her team task, he/she also develops the professional responsibilities of his/her team members.
• Problem solver. A good leader is a problem solver. A good leader accepts his/her member’s opinions and suggestions, but he/she is the one who responsible to make a decision.
• Role model. All members are watching you. A good leader is a model for the team. Everything you say is everything you do.
• Communication. Keep all team members understand every single detail of how the task shall be accomplished. A good leader knows how to communicate with various characters of his/her team members. Since he/she’s a good listener, a good leader knows his/her team members personally.
• Understand the advantages. A good leader does understand the capabilities of his/her team members, advantage and disadvantage of his/her team members. A good leader able to use all the advantages of every team member to accomplish all tasks.

We were born to serve others, nothing more nothing less…(Me)