Manuel Noriega's Essay: Refining Leadership For The Next Century
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
~ John Buchan
As America entered the industrial era, men of vision lead the way. At the time America was a largely uneducated country. Subsequently, leaders, especially in industry and business, wielded power in ways that are very different from those we are accustomed to today. In the essay Refining Leadership for the Next Century, McFarland lists the following old-style management notions: * If I’m the boss, I’m not supposed to make any mistakes. * If I’m in charge, no one should question my authority. * If you want the job done right, you have to do it yourself. * If we create new things around here, they should be my idea. (as cited in Wren, 1995, p. 457)
Today we can only scratch our heads and ask, “What were they thinking?” It seems almost impossible to imagine that this type of autocratic, dictatorial control typified those who were considered the leaders at the beginning of the 20th century. Fortunately, due in large part to the demise of authoritarian dictators such as Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler and despotic regimes such as of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadhafi, Manuel Noriega this leadership style on a …show more content…
Choosing the one who typifies my perception of a citizen leader in business is a difficult challenge. All that I have known have always given their time generously in tireless efforst to grow their businesses and in return give life to the communities where they are located and do business. With this generosity in mind I have to recognize my first mentor in business, A. Glenn Bowman. At age eighteen I was a young unskilled and uneducated whippersnapper, but Glenn hired me into his company, a three-storeroom, four-department store located on Magee Avenue in Patton,
~ John Buchan
As America entered the industrial era, men of vision lead the way. At the time America was a largely uneducated country. Subsequently, leaders, especially in industry and business, wielded power in ways that are very different from those we are accustomed to today. In the essay Refining Leadership for the Next Century, McFarland lists the following old-style management notions: * If I’m the boss, I’m not supposed to make any mistakes. * If I’m in charge, no one should question my authority. * If you want the job done right, you have to do it yourself. * If we create new things around here, they should be my idea. (as cited in Wren, 1995, p. 457)
Today we can only scratch our heads and ask, “What were they thinking?” It seems almost impossible to imagine that this type of autocratic, dictatorial control typified those who were considered the leaders at the beginning of the 20th century. Fortunately, due in large part to the demise of authoritarian dictators such as Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler and despotic regimes such as of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadhafi, Manuel Noriega this leadership style on a …show more content…
Choosing the one who typifies my perception of a citizen leader in business is a difficult challenge. All that I have known have always given their time generously in tireless efforst to grow their businesses and in return give life to the communities where they are located and do business. With this generosity in mind I have to recognize my first mentor in business, A. Glenn Bowman. At age eighteen I was a young unskilled and uneducated whippersnapper, but Glenn hired me into his company, a three-storeroom, four-department store located on Magee Avenue in Patton,