By : NANCY LAI
KOTA KINABALU: Leaders
should avoid committing eight mistakes in order to be successful, said Tourism,
Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun at the Leaders Conference
organised by Yayasan Sabah yesterday.
Delivering a keynote address
at the conference titled, ‘Leading from within – Leveraging lessons to meet
future challenges’, Masidi said one of the mistakes that leaders should refrain
from making is avoiding personal responsibility.
The person wants the perks
as a leader but not the responsibility, he said, adding that a leader must have
responsibility to himself or herself as well as to others.
“You must lead yourself
before leading others … you must walk the talk,” Masidi said.
Another mistake leaders
commit is that they do not build a leadership team but build followers instead
and these people will not be able to complement the leader’s skill or duties,
he said.
Leaders must also not
possess a limiting attitude, be of negative thinking, be unwilling to change
and be purely selfish, he stressed.
He also believed that
treating everyone the same is a mistake that must be avoided because people are
different and so are their work styles.
“Love them equally but
reward them according to their productivity at work,” he said, adding that it
is also a mistake to babysit trouble makers in an establishment.
Leaders must not focus too
much on problems as it can cause them to lose focus on the objectives of the
organization if they do that, he opined before stressing that the role of
leaders is to build and maintain momentum of an establishment.
Managers deal with problems
and leaders deal with momentum which in turn takes care of problems, Masidi
said.
“Then there is the mistake
of desiring to please everyone. Remember, it is better to do what is right and
not what is popular,” he said.
“Leaders must also set a
standard for their team and ensure that they live, touch and show love for the
standard.
“Failure to train people
through continued education and systematic, comprehensive, reasonable as well
as inductive training should be avoided, as well as tolerating poor
performances,” he said. (BP)
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