Leadership excellence

LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE should be distinguished leadership of hierarchical power: The hierarchy can be, but the moral authority can only be achieved with leadership. It may be that in a human group the leader and the leader are different people: The head is one that is ranked higher rank, while the leader is one who enjoys moral authority over the rest of the group. In a situation like this, the boss may give orders to be obeyed and enforced for fear of disciplinary action, while the leader does not give orders (no hierarchical authority), but their indications, their opinions, proposals will be accepted by the rest of the organization. Therefore, we must make it clear that leadership excellence is not only a role reserved for the top management of a company, but it can have a role to any person regardless of their position.

The leader's ability to mobilize the team to achieve the goals, make decisions, to get results if the reference group, and so on., Can be performed at each level of the organization. Each person can exercise leadership within their area of ​​competence. For example, within a company chief executive may act as leader, but so can the head of a department, a salesman, a clerk, a mechanic, and so on. The chief executive will be exercised on the whole organization, while the head of a department may do so within his unit, and commercial, administrative or mechanic can play this role among their peers. An employee who occupies a position intermediate or low within a company does not have to limit its action to a mere conformity or seguidísimo, but within its sphere of action it may take a proactive, innovative, feisty, maverick, concerned about the good of the organization and motivating for the rest of the team. In short, to exercise leadership as intense as if they occupy the top spot in the rankings. In fact, one of the responsibilities of the leader of a company is to promote this spirit of leadership at all levels of the organization.

A leader who fails to transmit his enthusiasm to promote its values ​​and way of working is a leader who holds the mode of failure. In addition, the leader has an obligation to be forming new leaders among their colleagues with a view to tomorrow to replace him.