Leadership: Rebuilding organizations through self
Various experiences have shown that there is a calling for moral
and ethical self-leaders. Many may have opinions and derogatory statements in reference
to leaders’ decisions; however, leaders have to live with those decisions. This
blog post is addressing the tenacity, resourcefulness, vision and the ‘not
listening to others’ to achieve success model: self-leadership.
The term self-leadership is described differently in the
field of academia and the leadership profession. In this blog, self-leadership
will be approached from the Furtner, Rauthmann, and Sachse (2010) definition “managing
one’s own thoughts and behaviors in order to intrinsically pursue goals
effectively and be productive (p. 1191).” By focusing on Furtner and colleagues
description of self-leadership, it may allow for a greater understanding of the
possible implication of autonomy and self-directed learning that one could
engage to guide their success regardless of field of study or career.
Within present day society, role models and mentors are
becoming scarce due to immoral decisions in their own personal life. This
creates a need for individuals to develop as a leader more independently. One
of the dangerous of doing this is that without moral and/or ethical checks and
balance, a person may develop the wrong skills to succeed. However, by engaging
in self-leadership behaviors that seek to succeed within a moral and ethical
manner, a new generation of leaders will grow to hold executive positions
within organizations that have been abandoned. In order to develop this
positive sense of successfully self-leadership, one has to guide their own
learning and curtail their behaviors and associates to ensure that they display
knowledge, skills and abilities of a moral and ethical leader.
All in all, choose whom you surround yourself with because
without a moral and/or ethical mentor, you could be one of those leaders who
may make a poor executive decision! Life is not about people pleasing; it is
pleasing one’s higher calling! Who are you trying to impress?
Furtner, m. R., rauthmann, j. F., & sachse, p. (2010).
The socioemotionally intelligent self-leader: examining relations between
self-leadership and socioemotional intelligence. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 38(9),
1191-1196. doi:10.2224/sbp.2010.38.9.1191
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