The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

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Following 21 Rules of LEADERSHIP Laws... Huebat.... in Quality Aspect..
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1) Hukup Katup (Ke... (show more)

Following 21 Rules of LEADERSHIP Laws... Huebat.... in Quality Aspect..
Mungkin bisa... dan terus belajar agar menjadi bisa...
1) Hukup Katup (Kemampuan Memimpin menentukan Tingkat keefektifan seseorang)
2) Hukum Pengaruh (Ukuran sejati dari Kepemimpinan adalah PENGARUH, tidak lebih dan tidak kurang)
3) Hukum Proses (Mengembangkan kepemimpinan setiap harinya bukan dalam satu hari)
4) Hukum Navigasi (Hanya pemimpinlah yang mengemudikan kapal itu)
5) Hukum EF. HUTON (Jika pemimpin berbicara, yang lain mendengarkan)
6) Hukum Landasan yang mantap (Jadilah pemimpin yang DIPERCAYA!)
7) Hukum Kehormatan (Pemimpin akan diikuti oleh orang dengan sendirinya)
8) Hukum Intuisi (Mengevaluasi segalanya dengan intuisi sebagai pemimpin)
9) Hukum Daya Tarik (Dia-lah yang akhirnya menentukan semua keputusan itu)
10) Hukum Hubungan baik (Sentuhlah hatinya, kemudian mintalah tolong)
11) Hukum lingkungan pergaulan (Potensinya ditentukan oleh siapa yang terdekat)
12) Hukum pemberdayaan (Hanya yang kuat yang akan membantu dan memberikan kekuatan bagi yang lain)
13) Hukum Reproduksi (Kemampuan mengakat orang lain)
14) Hukum Kepercayaan (Percaya orangnya, baru visinya)
15) Hukum kemenangan (Pemimpin akan berusaha sekuat tenaga agar teamnya menang)
16) Hukum Momentum besar (Pemimpin yang Dazat tahu benar kapan momentum yang paling the BEST)
17) Hukum Prioritas (Belum tentu semua aktivitas adalah pekerjaan dan belum tentu semua itu akan menghasilkan kemenangan dan presetasi)
18) Hukum pengorbanan (Rela berkorban dan memikul tanggung jawab)
19) Hukum Waktu yang tepat (Tahu benar kemana melangkah, kapan, dan apa yang harus diperbuat)
20) Hukum pertumbuhan Explosif (Pimpinlah para pengikut untuk melipat gandakan atas hasil)
21) Hukum Warisan (Nilai kelanggengan seorang pemimpin diukur dari suksesinya)

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John Maxwell is largely recognized as today's Christian leadership guru. He writes in an easy to read style, draws from personal anecdotes as well ... (show more)

John Maxwell is largely recognized as today's Christian leadership guru. He writes in an easy to read style, draws from personal anecdotes as well as historical and modern day examples. The book is well organized and Maxwell communicates very clearly his points. He does a good job of compiling fundamental leadership principles and expounding effectively on them. Many of the principles included are noteworthy and will prove to be useful.

That being said, the very foundation that Maxwell writes from is problematic. All throughout the book, it is evident that Maxwell's idea of success is no different from that of the business world. As revealed in his personal anecdotes, he is obsessed with numbers when it comes to church growth. Do numbers matter? Yes, but they are only one element of church growth. Numbers at what cost? Maxwell tells of time and time again when either he or another "successful" leader stepped in and fired just about everybody and consequently "succeeded". However, as a Christian, should not our idea of success be different from that of the world?

Maxwell also advocates a "run with the swift" philosophy of leadership. Of course we can recognize more potential in some than others, but recognition (or the lack thereof) does not necessarily determine the existence of potential. Yes, identify the areas in which people are gifted, but that doesn't mean abandon the "bottom 80%". Take a look at what Jesus did (and still does). Among his twelve disciples were people society would have called losers, people with a very low "leadership lid". Jesus took them and transformed them into apostles. Jesus also used Paul, a highly educated man who had all the right credentials (well, except for hating Jesus and his followers). We see then that God uses both those society recognizes as potential leaders as well as those society would label bonafide losers.

If John Maxwell is seen as a Christian leadership guru, it's no wonder many churches are the way they are, obsessed with attendance and new buildings, all at the cost of leaving behind the marginalized. The power of the redemption of the Cross and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is such that those whom with our fleshly eyes we see as the lower tier can become beautiful, broken vessels faithfully doing the work of the Kingdom.

In conclusion, while Maxwell's book does provide some good insight, the application of these principles must be very nuanced. Since Maxwell's concept of success is not consistent with what Jesus exemplified, it is not worth the time and money to invest in this book when there are other books on leadership out there that are much more consistent with the ways of Jesus Christ.

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” - 1 Cor. 1:26-31 (show less)

 

 

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  Earlier this year I discovered one story that explains both the paramount importance of management skills, and also why our country is declining as an economic power.

  A GM plant in Fremont, CA had such poor performance - high costs, bad morale, absenteeism, formal grievances, wildcat strikes - that GM closed it down and laid off all the workers. Three years later, GM joined Toyota in reopening the plant. Except for an all new management team, virtually everything else was the same - they ... (show more)

  Earlier this year I discovered one story that explains both the paramount importance of management skills, and also why our country is declining as an economic power.

  A GM plant in Fremont, CA had such poor performance - high costs, bad morale, absenteeism, formal grievances, wildcat strikes - that GM closed it down and laid off all the workers. Three years later, GM joined Toyota in reopening the plant. Except for an all new management team, virtually everything else was the same - they rehired and retrained most of the former workers. Under the new management they used Toyota's methods - empowering the employees using high involvement work practices and the Japanese management methods of quality circles (which ironically were mostly based on the work of an American, W. Edwards Deming). In just one year, the Fremont plant had higher productivity and quality than any other GM plant. Absenteeism dropped from 20 to 2 percent; outstanding formal grievances went from 2,000 to 2; costs from 30 percent higher than Asian plants to the same. It's all about the leadership.

  Any book that can help promote leadership skills, and persuade American business leaders to abandon their generally rigid hierarchical and authoritarian management style, must be acknowledged. And this is an excellent airplane book - something that can be read quickly even in a distracting environment. It offers great short rules that may help plant seeds for future change.

  The late Robert McNamara is highlighted in the chapter titled "The Law of Solid Ground: Trust is the Foundation of Leadership." The U.S. actually won all of the military battles involved in the Tet Offensive of early 1968, which might have been a crushing blow to the North Vietnamese, who had expected that people in the South would rise up against the Americans. The South did not and the offensive was soon repulsed. But Tet revealed that McNamara and other American leaders had not been truthful about the progress of the war. Trust in the leadership was lost, and soon afterwards the war was lost.
  
  Some friends in the MPA program recommended reading John Maxwell on servant leadership, and suggested this book. I was surprised to find very little on servant leadership here - perhaps only in "The Law of Addition: Leaders Add Value by Serving Others." I will check out his other books. (show less)

   

  by Facebook User on Jul 19, 2009 at 05:27PM

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  It was not a bad book, but I was not incredibly impressed. Though I have not experienced all of these "laws" I would say that all of them are likely true. However, I was somewhat disappointed because much of it was simple common sense. Add to that the overconfident, almost self-righteous, attitude of the author, as well as a plug for his seminars every few pages, and one comes out with a feeling that the author is as interested in advancing his career as he is improving your leaders... (show more)

  It was not a bad book, but I was not incredibly impressed. Though I have not experienced all of these "laws" I would say that all of them are likely true. However, I was somewhat disappointed because much of it was simple common sense. Add to that the overconfident, almost self-righteous, attitude of the author, as well as a plug for his seminars every few pages, and one comes out with a feeling that the author is as interested in advancing his career as he is improving your leadership performance. That said, the principles were, again, credible and would be helpful someone who has hit a roadblock in their personal leadership development. (show less)

   

   

  by Facebook User on Aug 15, 2009 at 04:23AM

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