I am the kind of person who is more pliable with persuasive/inspiration based leadership and management. I am not comfortable sharing my opinions with people who are authoritative and threatening. I stop looking at the actual problem and become defensive. I stop thinking creatively.
What do I consider authoritative leadership?
An authoritative leader
- forces his opinion on people. He does not let people make their decision.
- needs to control to see things done the "right" way.
- needs to create fear of consequence in order to get things done.
- will try not to give any impression that he could be wrong because he is supposed to be right, otherwise he cannot command respect.
- grooms puppets, not self-reliant thinkers.
- trusts very few.
- tries to persuade and convince based on reason, and also allows himself to be convinced if reason prevails.
- knows that there is something to learn from everyone.
- does not use his power and position to dictate terms with people.
- cares to first understand what the other person is thinking, and tries to start from there.
- acts more and talks less.
- does not fear to admit mistakes.
- allows people to make mistakes as long as they learn from them.
- can be trusted.
1 comment:
High 5! Well said. Couldn't have done it better myself.
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