Mobilization management

A leader is a person who has a vision, a drive and a commitment to achieve that vision, and the skills to make it happen. Let's look at each of those in detail.

A leader has a vision. Leaders see a problem that needs to be fixed or a goal that needs to be achieved. It may be something that no one else sees or simply something that no one else wants to tackle.

Whatever it is, it is the focus of the leader's attention and they attack it with a single-minded determination.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A true leader wants nothing more than to make people stand on their own, as leaders in their own right. Instead of trying to blind us with his or her brilliance, a true leader reflects our own light back to us, so that we may see ourselves anew.

In general leaders belong to difficult contingent for manageming because, of the the followings reasons:

Firstly, leaders have lower level of loyalty to the employer. Leaders are in demand at labour market. In addition, leaders are career-oriented. If a leader recognized that he(or she) ceases to develop, he doesn’t expect, when head hunters will pay attention to him, but begins actively to find a perspective job.

Secondly, leaders distinguished independent of thought. Leaders must be convinced. Certainly, they can reluctantly obey incomprehensible order, but it is not worth expecting their ardour executing it. Moreover, they will raise a doubt team.

Thirdly, leaders are peace instigators. It is difficult for them to be engaged in leaders a routine. Their energy requires an output. If to limit them, they can do a self-will. Their initiatives in many cause an irritation in many people. Permanent overcoming must be in leaders life. Otherwise, they go there where is the place of exploit.

Fourthly, leaders aspire to prevailing. Leaders repress the opponents instinctively. They aim to leave the last word after themselves.

Leaders want to be in a position to influence making strategic decisions, behavior of people as well as bussines process. They are the serious source of tension in a team.

Fifthly, it is necessary to observe a carefulness when hiring leaders. Being outcast, they quite often try to slander guidance of a firm in the eyes of business community.

In addition, passing to a new job leaders lead their way not only «their people» but also entice the best staff, bare whale directions of work.

Sixthly, leaders threaten authority of leader in crisis situations. Every leader expects the star time.

If a leader demonstrates confusion, hesitates, lost situation control above a situation, he (or she) immediately lifts a head and starts a race for the first person.

As a result there is a voluntary withdrawl or active squeezing leaders out of the company in «smooth» years. In periods of prosperity leader potential of administrative command falls sharply.

At the other hand , leaders are the source of life-breath of business. And there are serious grounds for this:

- A leader undertakes responsibility in critical situations

- A leader mobilizes a team on solving difficult problems

- A leader is reliable during the work in extreme terms.

That is why, when there are not leaders in a management team, a company appears defenceless in catastrophic changes.

There is no a desire to be responsible and as it happens nobody is sure that he (or she) will manage. More precisely, nobody needs it.

Nobody enjoys the proper authority in a team to mobilize people for work in the breach direction.

Nobody wants to work without sleep and rest, the matters of great urgency and reasonable excuse appear in everybody.

Conclusions:

• Leaders are a powerful weapon. But they need a careful treatment

• Leaders must become manager’s support for team mobilization on solving difficult problems and for persuasion of stakeholders to support a firm in a tricky situation.

Those who rid of leaders or make them their opponents, remain in the company of dependants before the future experience.