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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
----Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
An
effective leader is a person who has a clean focus on the task at
hand. That is, when you are around this type of leader there is no
sense that the signification of status and power is “what it's all
about” for this person. Rather, there is a sense of comfort and
relief that this will be a clean working relationship and not one
freighted with a legacy of obsessive relational emotional conflict
and turmoil. It is the difference between working with a bundle of
fulminating dynamite on the one hand....and a pristinely focused
camera on the other.
An
interesting window into the role of prejudice in hereby evident. An
effective leader looks externally for facts and reality and not
within drawing conclusions and reactions from set prejudices and
obsessions. An effective leader, for example, will engage in active
communication and interaction with a target group while a leader of
the old order relies not on first hand experience but upon
indoctrinated prejudices. The first is founded upon love and reality
while the second rests on hatred and assumptions—interestingly,
even when the prejudices are groundlessly favorable.
Woe
to any society that predominately cultivates and elevates either by
design or circumstance delusional, self-absorbed leadership.
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