{"id":355,"date":"2014-08-29T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/08\/29\/the-art-of-leadership-some-reflections\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:52:01","slug":"the-art-of-leadership-some-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/the-art-of-leadership-some-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Leadership \u2013 Some Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">28 June 2012 St Albans, UK [Bertil Wiklander] <\/span>A colleague recently reminded me of Peter Drucker\u2019s distinction between management and leadership:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Management is doing things right \u2013 Leadership is doing the right things.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It made me think again of the real nature of leadership. What helps us know how to do the right things? See here the fruit of some of my reflections:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Art and Wisdom<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leadership is the practice of an art. It is not an exact science and it is not accomplished simply by implementing rules.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is based on wisdom acquired by making mistakes and learning the right lessons from them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Character<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leadership is best learnt and exercised by persons with certain personality traits.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership comes from feeling good about yourself \u2013 avoiding self-destruction and not being over-sensitive to criticism, being humble and yet fearless and bold.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership requires being energetic, persistent and self-disciplined and yet constantly encouraging others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Abilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leadership comes from being able to listen to, having empathy with, and reading the minds of other people.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership comes from being able to see the big picture while understanding how its elements relate to the whole.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is not lost in the detail of things and never micromanages.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership comes from being able to focus on the essence in every given situation \u2013 a leader knows the difference between what is important and what is trivial.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership comes from being able to bring a group together that acts toward a common goal.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership comes from being able to communicate well \u2013 articulating your thoughts clearly while adapting to different kinds of situations and audiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Attitude to My Leadership Role<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leaders understand their central role in the process of inducing others to act toward a common goal \u2013 and know how to master this role.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is about relating so well to others that you are being followed.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders lead by their actions, not their positions.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders influence others by inspiring their trust, acting consistently, and motivating them by words and deeds.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders lead by legitimate authority, setting an example, setting goals, rewarding success and dealing with failure, organisational restructuring, team-building, and communicating a vision.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders act so that the organisation achieves its mission while all feel they were part of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><em>By Dr Bertil Wiklander, President of the Trans-European Division<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Used with permission from Leadership Development Journal &#8211; June-July 2012<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">28 June 2012 St Albans, UK [Bertil Wiklander] <\/span>A colleague recently reminded me of Peter Drucker\u2019s distinction between management and leadership:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Management is doing things right \u2013 Leadership is doing the right things.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It made me think again of the real nature of leadership. What helps us know how to do the right things? See here the fruit of some of my reflections:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1588,1576,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-united-kingdom","category-leadership-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}