Serving leadership

A review of interest on 8 February 2002 edition of Sinar Harapan, on the front page, the representative of the people who are reluctant to go down to the disaster-stricken areas of the flood. When the Jakarta floods, and when people hunger, cold and stomach because of flooding, we angkuhnya see how the politicians and leaders that we are even bergeming people suffering due to floods. Even said that people must go back massage chest swallow disappointment, when a representative of the people who comment with a damn said, "Musing floods not only in Jakarta or in Indonesia alone. Outside negeripun have flooding. "

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Aribowo Prijosaksono and Roy Sembel


Topics Mandiri deliberately chosen this time to ponder again the meaning of the sterling leadership. Leadership is often defined with the formal position, which demands for facilities and services of the constituency that should be served. Although many of the leaders or officials who said that when the appointed position is a trust, but in reality, very few or can be almost no leader who truly apply the leadership of the heart, which is serving in leadership.
An interesting book about leadership that serves (servant leadership) written by Dr. Kenneth Blanchard and his friends, entitled Leadership by the Book (LTB). Ken Blanchard is also co-author of the books that are in demand management, such as The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans, Gung Ho, and Everyone's Coach. LTB book around three characters that represent the three aspects of leadership that serve, that is a pastor, a professor, and a professional who is very successful in the business world. Three aspects of leadership is the heart (HEART servant), or HEAD mind serving (HEAD servant), and serving TANGAN (HANDS servant).

Serving the heart (Character Leadership)
Leadership starts from serving in ourselves. Leadership requires a transformation of the changes in heart and character. Leadership starts from the pure and then move out to serve their dipimpinnya. Is the importance of character and integrity of a leader to be a sincere leader and received by the people who dipimpinnya. Again how much we see the leaders who claim to representatives of the people or public officials, it does not have integrity at all, because what is spoken and promised during the campaign in the elections is not the same as when it is made to sit comfortably in kursinya.
At least according to Ken Blanchard and his friends, there are a number of characteristics and values that emerged from a leader who has a heart to serve, namely:
The main goal of a leader is to serve the interests of those who dipimpinnya. Orientasinya is not for personal self-interest and golongannya but it is of public interest that dipimpinnya. Whether this is a dream that was flown or not we have leaders like this, a clear leader of the public is very rare we met in this republic.
A leader would have a sincere yearning to build and develop their dipimpinnya grow so many leaders in the group. This is in line with the book written by John Maxwell entitled Developing the Leaders Around You. The success of a leader is highly dependent of the ability to build the people around, because the success of an organization depends on the potential of human resources in the organization. If an organization or community has many members with the quality of leadership, organization or nation will develop and become strong.
Leaders who have served the love and attention to those who dipimpinnya. Love that materialize in the form of awareness of the needs, interests, dreams and hopes of those who dipimpinnya.
The four leaders who have a heart to serve is accountability (accountable). The term means that the full accountability is the responsibility and reliable. This means all the words, thoughts and actions can be to the public or to any member of its organization.
Leaders who serve are leaders who want to hear. Want to hear every need, dream and hope of those who dipimpinnya.
Leaders who serve are leaders who can control the ego and personal interests than the public or those who dipimpinnya. Ego control means can control themselves when the pressure and challenges faced by a very heavy. A leader is always in a state of pure calm, full of self-control and not easy emotionally.

The Head of Service (method Leadership)
A leader is not sincere enough or have only the heart but also must have a series of methods of leadership that can become an effective leader. Many leaders have the quality of the first aspect, the character and integrity of a leader, but when a formal leader, is not effective at all because they did not have a good method of leadership. An example is the charismatic leader or leaders who became symbols of the struggle of the people, like Corazon Aquino, Nelson Mandela, Abdurrahman Wahid, may even Mahatma Gandhi, and many more leaders who do not become effective when he formally became president. This is because they do not have a method of leadership needed to manage their dipimpinnya.
Not many leaders have the ability this method of leadership. Because this is never taught in formal schools. Therefore, we are often in a variety of opportunities in order to encourage attention to formal institutions such as the skills that we call this the softskill or personal skills. In an article in the economist.com have a review entitled Leadership Can Be Taught. Clearly discussed in the article is that the leadership (in this case a method of leadership) can be taught so that they have a complete character of leadership. There are three important things in the methods of leadership, namely:
Effective leadership begins with a vision that this is a jelas.Visi power or the power to make changes, which encourage the process of a tremendous explosion of creativity through a variety of synergies and integration expertise from people who have in the organization.
In fact, said that nothing motivates change more powerfully than a clear vision. A clear vision can motivate the occurrence of the tremendous changes in the organization. Inspirator is a leader and visionary changes, that is have a clear vision of where the organization will be. Leadership is a simple process to bring people or organizations that dipimpinnya toward a goal (goal) is clear. Without vision, leadership does not have meaning at all. This is the vision that encourages an organization to continuously learn and grow, develop and maintain in survivalnya so that it can survive for several generations.
There are two aspects of the vision, the visionary role and implementation role. This means not only a leader can build or create a vision for the organization but has the ability to implement this vision into a series of actions or activities that are necessary to achieve that vision.
An effective leader is one who is very responsive. This means he is always responsive to any problems, needs, hopes and dreams of those who dipimpinnya. In addition, always active and proactive in finding solutions of any problems or challenges faced by organizations.
An effective leader who was a coach or assistant for people who dipimpinnya (performance coach). This means he has the ability to Conference, encourage and enable children fruit in planning (including the plan of activities, target or targets, the plan needs resources, and so on), perform daily activities (monitoring and control), and evaluate the performance of children's fruit .

Serving the hands (of Leadership)
Sejati leaders not only show the character and integrity, and have the ability in the methods of leadership, but he must show the behavior and habits of a leader. In Ken Blanchard's books have mentioned the four of a leader, namely:
Leaders do not just satisfy them that dipimpinnya, but really have always longing for the Lord. That means he lives in a line with the Word of God. He always has a mission to glorify God in what each thought, and diperbuatnya said.
Sejati leaders focus on spiritual matters than the mere worldly success. For wealth and prosperity is to be able to give and do more. Whatever is not to get the award, but to serve each other. And he prefer the relationship or the relationship of love and appreciation, compared with the power and status only.
Sejati leaders always want to learn and grow in various aspects, both of knowledge, health, finances, relationships, and so forth.
Every day senantiasi menselaraskan (recalibrating) himself against the commitment to serve God and each other. Through solitude (silence), prayer (prayer) and scripture (read the Word of God).
So that the leadership of the Ken Blanchard that we are very relevant to the leadership crisis situation experienced by the people of Indonesia. In fact, according to Danah Zohar, author book Spiritual Intelligence: the Ultimate Intelligence SQ, one of the measurements is the spiritual leadership acumen serving (servant leadership).
Even in a research done by the Gay and Kate Luderman hendrick, shows that the leaders who succeeded in bringing success to the top company is a leader who usually have a high SQ. They are usually the people who have integrity, open, able to accept criticism, humble, able to understand other people well, inspired by a vision, to know themselves well, have a high spirituality, and always seek the best for themselves and for other people.