"Only crazy people who expect a different result than the same ways."
-Anonimus-
I have a simple belief about the leader and leadership. For me, leadership qualities of a leader is measured from the work, not the oration or discourse, although the ability oration perhaps one important skill for leaders. Look at Allah's statement in Al Qur'an: And say: “Work (righteousness): Soon will Allah observe your work, and His Messenger, and the Believers: Soon will ye be brought back to the knower of what is hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did.”[QS. At-Taubah, 9: 105]
Consider also a stark warning of Allah SWT in other parts of Alquran: O ye who believe! Why say ye that which ye do not? Grievously odious is it in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not.[QS. Ash-Shaff, 61: 2-3]
Sound management paradigm is the basic capital to be able to lead transformational change successfully. Think with management to make a leader capable of describing the road map (road map) will deliver the changes that led from a position of communities here and now towards the future of Dreamland. Quality of management thinking that would also clearly distinguish between the ideals of mere wishful thinking, vision of the wish.
Without the ability of management thinking not unlike many leaders become mere orator or a philosopher, even a provocateur, a skilled pouring pearls of progressive-revolutionary thinking in the pithy words, whether in speech or writing that sharp, but still not succeeded in realizing a single great idea in reality community. When leaders model orator-philosopher of this speech, people listened stunned amazement. Their hearts thrilled. They feel the fatwas of the leader enlighten the mind and refresh the spirit. They fly to the sky dream. Their hearts beat faster. Their blood surge. It is hardly wait to conquer the world. But what happens when the speech was finished? When they have to go back to the real world? When they are faced again with the reality that is too far from ideal? They are like hitting a wall, or met with an impasse, because the leader was unable to show the country road map to that dream.
True that the leader should be visionary. But leaders must also be transformative, able to parse that vision into a number of milestones between, while acting as coachman who spurred his horses to pull the train moving from one milestone to the next milestone, and so on, until arriving at the destination terminal.
In the previous section we discussed the first two signs in the management, namely process, as well as systematic and logical. Does every process that is composed with a systematic and based on a certain logic automatically be referred to as management? Whoa. Not necessarily. It should be underlined that the leaders take advantage of management, rather than drowning in the complexity of management.
I have a friend. Just mention his name Anto. Nicknamed Mr. Sisdur, aka Master System and Procedure, because it Anto's regular department. Almost everything in life there Anto protocol, there are procedures, and almost nothing had changed. But Anto often seen not happy. His brow often furrowed. His face was bent. Such default expression when faced with situations outside estimates. Fondness on the systems and procedures to make Anto completely lose flexibility to face uncertainty.
More fun again, systems and procedures continue to reproduce more and more. Increasingly indistinct edge base. For example, in the dictionary Anto something must be done according to procedure A, but we'll change the way B, confirmed he will explode aka furious. If then we ask, why should not A and B? Anto answer yes because it is so appropriate! The procedure has to be like that Because it is the procedure! Halt altogether, like the northern point of the season Lebaran (Ied Mubarrak).
That is, management is not simply a systematic and logical process. He also should aim to achieve pre-determined goal (s), objectives, or goals, which have been specified before the process began. That goal was certainly not simply plucked from the wind, but unloaded, translated, also in a systematic and logical, the leader of great vision.
Full awareness and appreciation about the purpose of this is what makes a leader into a dynamic figure, which combines the two sides, which seemed paradoxical. On the one hand he is very strong - consistent, consistent, and presisten - with goals to accomplish. But on the other hand he is very flexible in selecting and determining the way - including the systems and procedures - which he believed most likely to help him achieve that goal. Like a driver. May be not very important question which route is taken - as far as not violating the traffic signs, of course - as long as the car being driven to move the passengers from the place of origin to destination.