As you can tell from the title, this is part four of the leadership perception survey I conducted last month on this blog. I will share a couple more posts next week to finish this series, one with some thoughts and observations and some of the pertinent statistics, and one about the two open-ended questions in the survey. Here are the last two closed-ended questions.
Are the qualities to be a successful leader today different than they were 20 years ago?
Yes – 40%
No – 60%
Does the quality of the leader play a major factor in job satisfaction?
Yes – 99.5%
No – 0.5%
Do you think perception matters in the field of leadership and the people a leader attempts to lead?
Which makes me think of another question, is a person a leader if he or she “attempts” to lead? To be a leader must one have people who follow?
is a person a leader if he or she “attempts” to lead? To be a leader must one have people who follow?
i see 2 answers to this.
1) if by “attempts” to lead you mean fails. a lot. then i would say yes, a person is a leader if they attempt to lead and fail/miss the goals they set out for. they may not be a good leader, but they are a leader. also, many times, the highest level leaders will take a failure and truly lead by example and show followers how to overcome the attempt. how to overcome failure. (rambling, but hopefully making sense.)
2) i think that all of us, in one sense, are leaders in that we are called as followers of Christ to set an example. not to be perfect. not even to be right. but to be examples. regardless of if we each have followers (or in a social media age: friends, buddies, subscribers, twitterati, etc) we are all examples as we go about life.
thinking out loud.