By John Adair
Who're the good leaders in background and what can the train us at the present time in regards to the nature and perform of management? John Adair has introduced jointly quite a lot of charges from inspiring leaders, from Machiavelli to Mandela.
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Chuang Tzu, a later member of the Taoist school of thought, expressed it thus: ‘In an age of perfect virtue, good men are not appreciated; ability is not conspicuous. Rulers are mere beacons, while the people are as free as the wild deer. They love one another without being conscious of charity. ’ The Tao of Leadership It is this quality of doing things spontaneously and in an unselfconscious way, without regard to their effects upon other people’s perceptions of oneself, that links Lao Tzu with the teaching of Jesus.
In the Cyropaedia he listed the qualities of an ideal ruler as: • temperance • justice • sagacity • amiability • presence of mind • tactfulness • humanity ONE LEADERSHIP THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 21 • sympathy • helpfulness • courage • magnanimity • generosity • considerateness. Aristotle, Plato’s greatest pupil, suggested just four qualities of leadership: 1 justice 2 temperance 3 prudence 4 fortitude. Field Marshal Montgomery quoted them with approval. Lord Slim also taught four qualities, but they are different: 1 courage 2 willpower 3 initiative 4 knowledge.
For he knows that it is the power of the group, which he has guided and served, which has THREE THE SERVANT-LEADER 51 achieved the result. ”’ The difficulty, of course, is that leaders tend to be men and women with a higher-than-average level of self-assurance. They are often what are called strong personalities. These qualities do not mean that leaders are also necessarily self-centred or selfish: some are and some are not. But they do make it hard for many leaders to be self-effacing in the style taught by Lao Tzu and Jesus.