The Process of Leadership

Everything goes through a process. You are born, you grow up, and then you become old and die. This process happens over and over again and it works for us. So what if you developed a process for leadership?

Well they did and they called it process theory. So here is what goes into this process. The first is a purpose something that you and your group are working towards. You have to have inclusiveness. Everybody is part of the process; leaving people out of the process will only delay the solution to the purpose. You also need to empower the people in your group. This can be done in many ways but low moral always slows down the process. Contrary to popular belief moral does not improve with continuous beatings. Finally you have to be weary of ethics. Lying and saying that “witches possessed you” only works in a group for so long until somebody in the group steps up. Ethics are very complicated but there are many standards such as lying and stealing that everybody follows. It’s a process it works. Government is a great example of this process and when they don’t follow the process they have a tendency to run into problems.

Speaking of governments not following the leadership process Libya has been running into a lot of problems in the past couple of the weeks. This is a true example of somebody who doesn’t follow the process. Governments have many purposes; among them is protecting the people and preserving them as a country. They aren’t doing to good at moving towards their purpose. They leave just about everybody out, as their country is a dictatorship instead of a democracy that the people want. Well there goes inclusiveness. As for empowerment… Maybe I shouldn’t have made that joke before about the beatings. This government is sadistic; instead of empowering them they just beat them down until all forms of hope are lost. What about there ethics? More like what ethics? The entire problem is there lack of basic human rights. They are lied to, cheated, beaten, and often murdered. There is no leadership process at least not as a country.

What about their military? It almost works but it still doesn’t quite. The entire military is included in there actions. Inclusiveness is met. The men feel empowered as they stand over the people shoving their guns into them. Yet there is still a problem with the process. There are still no ethics. The system doesn’t work and now it is beginning to backfire on them.

The process doesn’t always work and it isn’t always used but it is important to keep you mind open for things of such magnitude. It could change the lives of many.