Leaders & Their Roles, Jobs, and Responsibilities are not leaders’ duties.
Roles are partly played by a person in an activity. Leaders’ roles are certainly not leaders’ functions or duties. Any man standing has many role-plays he plays; perhaps as a father, as a son, as a husband, as a leader, as a follower, as a schoolmate, as an associate or colleague. But this does not suggest the person’s functions or duties. Leaders have duties they perform. I’ve noticed many followers don’t know the duties of their leaders. Some companies’ staff see their MD/CEO as that man who travels and answers telephone calls all the time. Some civil servants see their CEO as one representing the governor/president/chairman. Some CEO see themselves as one having their turn to have a piece of the cake. The worst is that some of these so-called leaders don’t know their duties more than people who pay salaries. QUESTION: How will you deliver as a leader if you don’t know your duties, talk less about knowing your job, and have no responsibility? You see why good leadership is far from our society. EXCUSE ME: Do you know these things? Leaders should know their;
- Roles.
- Duties/Functions.
- Jobs.
- Responsibilities.
Please note that you cannot PERFORM if you don’t know these. It’s not an evil spirit, it is a knowledge spirit.
Respective roles of the leaders and followers
The roles of the LEADER and the FOLLOWER are distinctly different from each other. There are:
Role of the Follower
- Followers SUBMIT to the leaders’ authority.
- Followers TRUST the leaders to accomplish their purposes.
- Followers DON’T quit or become DIVISIVE.
Anywhere these SUBMISSION, TRUST, and UNITY are not, the system has got trouble. It makes the followership withdraw from SUPPORTING the leader. See:
Role of the Leader
- Leaders exercise authority with wisdom and caution.
- Leaders recognize that no human controls all of life.
- Leaders lead others by serving, not bossing them.
This is serious! Summarily put: Leaders LEAD followers while followers FOLLOW the leaders. This statement is not obvious. It’s pregnant with meaning.
Excerpts from Leadership Is Everything by Mike Ihezuo. Follow #LeadershipXcellence, @MikeOIhezuo.
