The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab
We find that we usually make the distinction between good and bad leaders by how they make decisions and control those that follow them. A good leader makes good decisions and controls the public, religious body or whoever else in a positive manor and a bad leader the opposite. That is always how...
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| description | We find that we usually make the distinction between good and bad leaders by how they
make decisions and control those that follow them. A good leader makes good decisions
and controls the public, religious body or whoever else in a positive manor and a bad
leader the opposite. That is always how we do it. The problem with this is that the basis
of good and bad leadership is based on control, which is usually a breeding ground for
trouble. Why do we assume leaders are those that make decisions for other people?
That’s the consensus we see in politics. We want to ‘vote’ or choose someone to be our
leader that will make great decisions for us. Is it so we don’t have to? Is it so we have
someone to blame when things go wrong? We are starting to wonder if leadership in
Malaysia is to look drastically different then what we see elsewhere and usually from
what we want |
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| spelling | uitm-9102019-03-20T07:57:10Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/910/ The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab Aarab, Abdellah Management. Industrial Management Total quality management. Benchmarking Work groups. Team work in industry. Quality circles We find that we usually make the distinction between good and bad leaders by how they make decisions and control those that follow them. A good leader makes good decisions and controls the public, religious body or whoever else in a positive manor and a bad leader the opposite. That is always how we do it. The problem with this is that the basis of good and bad leadership is based on control, which is usually a breeding ground for trouble. Why do we assume leaders are those that make decisions for other people? That’s the consensus we see in politics. We want to ‘vote’ or choose someone to be our leader that will make great decisions for us. Is it so we don’t have to? Is it so we have someone to blame when things go wrong? We are starting to wonder if leadership in Malaysia is to look drastically different then what we see elsewhere and usually from what we want 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/910/1/K_ABDELLAH%20AARAB%20%20PEN%2010_P1.pdf Aarab, Abdellah (2010) The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab. (2010) In: 15th University Administrators Conference 2010, 20-23 December 2010, Pan Pacific, KLIA. (In Press) |
| spellingShingle | Management. Industrial Management Total quality management. Benchmarking Work groups. Team work in industry. Quality circles Aarab, Abdellah The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab |
| title | The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab |
| title_full | The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab |
| title_fullStr | The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab |
| title_full_unstemmed | The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab |
| title_short | The making of good leaders / Abdellah Aarab |
| title_sort | making of good leaders / abdellah aarab |
| topic | Management. Industrial Management Total quality management. Benchmarking Work groups. Team work in industry. Quality circles |
| url | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/910/ |