Leadership is a
foul-weather job
The most
successful leader of the twentieth century was Winston Churchill. But for twelve years, from 1928 to Dunkirk in
1940, he was totally on the sidelines, almost discredited – because there was
no need for a Churchill. Things were
routine or, at any rate, looked routine.
When the catastrophe came, thank goodness he was available. Fortunately or unfortunately, the one
predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That’s when you do depend on the leader.
The most
important task of an organization’s leader is to anticipate crisis. Perhaps not to avert it, but to anticipate
it. To wait until the crisis hits is
abdication. One has to make the
organization capable of anticipating the storm, weathering it, and in fact,
being ahead of it. You cannot prevent a
major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, that
has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself and where people
trust one another. In military training,
the first rule is to instill soldiers with the trust in their officers, because
without trust they won’t fight.
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| Hon PM Moana Carcasses and his crew Ian Wilson 1'st PA, Johnson Naviti Acting DG of PMO and MP Hosea Nevu, returning to the Police vessel after launching the extension of the VNPF Agri-Superannuation account and IMMS pilot, as well as the National Organic Certification Strategy for Coconuts and Cocoa on Malo, 4/4/2014 The national strategy is bold challenge for current VanGov and designed to eradicate agricultural poverty in the coconut sector by 2016. |
ACTION
POINT: Confront the major problems facing your organization. Communicate their essence frankly and
fully. Gather support for taking the
steps necessary to solve them.
Managing
the Non-Profit Organization
Quoted from
The Daily Drucker, page 112
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