MY CULTURAL NARRATIVE AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR MY LEADERSHIP WORK.
“The big man” leader
As consequences of living in a tribal society, where the man in authority position is the only one who should give decisions, no one can object nor question these decisions. The work inside this tribe centered on the head of the tribe instructions. Based on that the terms of teamwork, task force, and the making decision based on studies and consultation, these terms are absents inside the tribe. This kind of authority is preferred for anyone in a position of authority. It is a “big man” authority while the other should follow me. It is the way where the tribe considers the one in authority position as a strong man, so based on that he deserves the respect …show more content…
Greenleaf, which is “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first…“the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served”
I try to be a “servant leader” at any time I was in an authority position. However, in a culture, where leaders are known as “big men”, it is certainly a difficult to lead others using the idea of teamwork, making task forces, and consulting in prior to a taking important decisions. Usually in all my authority positions I had been assigned I consult the concern people, I seek their point view for any issue before a decision can be taken. Of course, that does not mean I cannot take a decision alone, especially when critical decisions are needed immediately.
Unfortunately, this kind of managing the authority, is unexpected in our society, and I been always asked by others, to take a decision without consulting my department’s staff. Sometimes they using the term of “you are not strong”, or sometimes “we know you cannot take decisions …show more content…
For instance, we share thoughts a decision for a big things such as buying a new car or moving to another house, while a small thing such as a daily house needs from food and other stuff all of these under my wife responsibility. I can claim that is an internal agreement inside my small family, and only the close people around us, knew that kind of family control I follow.
This idea of family management not only because I am usually busy all the day, and I don’t have time to control these things, but this is due to I believe that the women should share the man to manage all family responsibilities. In fact, this idea of sharing the responsibility for husband and his wife, currently, starts to be applied to many Saudi families, and it is spread over the society these days, however, it is spread in “silent mode”, i.e. it is known but the people did not like to recognize it.
“The big man” leader
As consequences of living in a tribal society, where the man in authority position is the only one who should give decisions, no one can object nor question these decisions. The work inside this tribe centered on the head of the tribe instructions. Based on that the terms of teamwork, task force, and the making decision based on studies and consultation, these terms are absents inside the tribe. This kind of authority is preferred for anyone in a position of authority. It is a “big man” authority while the other should follow me. It is the way where the tribe considers the one in authority position as a strong man, so based on that he deserves the respect …show more content…
Greenleaf, which is “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first…“the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served”
I try to be a “servant leader” at any time I was in an authority position. However, in a culture, where leaders are known as “big men”, it is certainly a difficult to lead others using the idea of teamwork, making task forces, and consulting in prior to a taking important decisions. Usually in all my authority positions I had been assigned I consult the concern people, I seek their point view for any issue before a decision can be taken. Of course, that does not mean I cannot take a decision alone, especially when critical decisions are needed immediately.
Unfortunately, this kind of managing the authority, is unexpected in our society, and I been always asked by others, to take a decision without consulting my department’s staff. Sometimes they using the term of “you are not strong”, or sometimes “we know you cannot take decisions …show more content…
For instance, we share thoughts a decision for a big things such as buying a new car or moving to another house, while a small thing such as a daily house needs from food and other stuff all of these under my wife responsibility. I can claim that is an internal agreement inside my small family, and only the close people around us, knew that kind of family control I follow.
This idea of family management not only because I am usually busy all the day, and I don’t have time to control these things, but this is due to I believe that the women should share the man to manage all family responsibilities. In fact, this idea of sharing the responsibility for husband and his wife, currently, starts to be applied to many Saudi families, and it is spread over the society these days, however, it is spread in “silent mode”, i.e. it is known but the people did not like to recognize it.