Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Noble Character Calls Loyal Followers

In January 1962, several American scholars visited some of the most outstanding American companies at that time. They hoped to observe how the motivation theory in management psychology was used by these creative entrepreneurs from production, organization, salary, employee benefits, etc. and other aspects put into practice.During this visit, they developed a deep respect for the excellent managers in the companies they came into contact with.These managers have some excellent qualities that are rarely found in ordinary intellectuals.They are strong-willed, decisive in dealing with things, and they are both principled and flexible in their dealings with others. They seem to have truly matured.On the basis of research on these outstanding business managers, scholars combined their consulting experience in enterprises, governments, and the military, and expounded in detail their views on the psychological characteristics of leaders and what kind of talents are excellent entrepreneurs. Perceptions and research have gradually formed an important basis for the theory of "leadership charisma."

India's first post-independence Prime Minister Nehru followed Mahatma Gandhi at the beginning of his political career and supported the movement led by Gandhi.Gandhi himself admired him very much and had high hopes for him.Gandhi often exchanged views with Nehru on various issues and took the initiative to promote him to a leadership position. Due to Gandhi's role, Nehru's status in the Congress Party rose rapidly.Although Nehru was arrested and imprisoned nine times, he never gave up his political ambitions and ideals.Even more valuable is that Nehru did not follow Gandhi blindly.He was not afraid of difficulties, and conducted a survey of Europe, and his views on many issues have already surpassed Gandhi's.He has always been at the forefront of the Indian national liberation movement, and he proposed the political goal of "complete independence" for India, which was widely supported by the Indian people.His good character, firm belief in revolution and vision are deeply respected and trusted by the Indian people.

Some politicians are dismissive of character, such as former US President Nixon in his book "Leader" who expressed contempt for morality."Virtue is not what makes a great leader superior to others," he said. But this perception is fundamentally wrong, and equates power with artifice.Power tactics are often unscrupulous. Under a power mechanism that is not democratic and transparent, it may work, but under a mechanism that is democratized and transparent, it often makes it difficult for leaders to take a single step.Nixon's final resignation because of the "Watergate Incident" illustrates this point.Therefore, effective leadership can only be achieved if morality is recognized.Otherwise everything is empty talk.

Leaders must attract followers through their own moral qualities.Subordinates often express admiration for the leader's ability and then obey, but more often they are moved by the leader's personal moral character, which leads to unconditional obedience and trust.Therefore, leaders should pay attention to the cultivation of their own moral character. Although they cannot be a great person, they must be able to be a noble person. To cultivate a leader's charisma cannot be accomplished overnight, and efforts can be made from the following four aspects: develop a unique personality

People often have some herd psychology, sometimes unconscious or subconscious.Leaders are in a very unique position within a department or organization and need to have their own unique personality.As a leader, in order to cultivate your own charisma, you must have your own unique personality. self-awareness and self-awareness Self-awareness refers to feelings that you are aware of as soon as they arise.Just as there are blind spots in the human eye, there are blind spots in the human personality.Sometimes people don't know their true feelings, and then they need to constantly reflect.If a leader does not even understand himself, it is impossible to talk about leading others.This self-awareness is a major part of emotional intelligence.Only those who have a clearer understanding of their emotions can better control their lives.

good at controlling mood Emotion is a special expression of people's reaction to objective content, and it has unique subjective experience and external performance.To cultivate a tolerant and straightforward character, one must be good at controlling one's own mood. find out the shortcomings Pride makes one lag behind.Identifying shortcomings and correcting them can make leaders more charismatic, mature and complete.This requires constant self-reflection and comparison with others. A leader cannot lie in a halo and live in a halo. He needs to analyze himself realistically and discard unreal feelings.False feelings tend to become "real" feelings.Leaders at the top are prone to bias their own evaluations.

Only when a leader conducts self-examination at all times, can he constantly find out the weaknesses in his character and correct them constantly, so as to finally form his own personality charm. The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras pointed out in "Golden Words": "The most important thing is self-esteem."Hegel believes in "Man should respect himself, and should regard himself as worthy of the most noble things."Simply put, self-esteem is consciously being a noble person.This has two aspects. From the perspective of the relationship between people and things, people are masters and things are subordinates, thus manipulating and dominating things. People are more noble than things, not the other way around.There is an old saying: "Wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, poverty and humbleness cannot be moved, and power cannot be subdued." Two of the three are about money and wealth, that is, the test of material desires on people's self-esteem, and people can maintain their self-esteem if they can choose correctly.This is called "things without things in things", that is, to be the master of things, not to be slaves to things.From the perspective of the relationship between people, self-esteem is self-recognition, self-affirmation, and self-respect among the crowd. It is formed by self-consciousness and independent personality, and is respected by others because of the behavior of self-esteem.What kind of things people do is what kind of people they become.Because the relationship between people and things can only be established in the relationship between people, and actually runs through the relationship between people, so the content of the latter aspect is more important.

Self-esteem means being responsible for one's own thoughts and actions, so first of all, one must have a sense of autonomy and an independent personality.The former is inner self-esteem and the latter is outer dignity.Self-awareness is the independent judgment of right and wrong, good and evil in social life based on one's own understanding of truth.Self-awareness requires independent thinking, and the pursuit of truth cannot follow what others say, echo what others say, let alone succumb to authority or the opinions of the majority, and give up one's own opinions against one's will.In principled debates, those who sit on the fence who have the right and wrong, and those who are in a hurry in the sudden changes in the social situation, have lost the most precious sense of autonomy.Of course, self-awareness does not mean self-righteous and stubborn, which is precisely the manifestation of poor self-awareness.Because human beings are social beings, human self-awareness cannot be separated from social space.In fact, self-awareness is the self-selection, self-identification and self-adherence to society, including the values, moral principles, and behavioral norms of the social group to which one belongs. These social and group consciousnesses, such as party spirit and national integrity, exist in people's In self-consciousness, only through human self-consciousness can it be vividly expressed in reality.If people's self-consciousness only reflects personal selfish desires and does not reflect social requirements, then there is absolutely no way to talk about self-esteem and human dignity.

Self-awareness directly determines a person's independent personality.If a person loses his sense of autonomy, or intentionally follows others, clings to others, and is at the mercy of others, he loses his independent personality.Such as belittle oneself, flattery, groveling, loss of national dignity, etc., there is no dignity to talk about.Some leaders have two faces in front of their superiors and subordinates. When holding a subordinate meeting, they do not speak to the subordinates in the audience, but blindly speak sideways to the superiors.There are also leaders who respond quickly to the criticism of their superiors immediately, or falsely agree, or make a painful review, appearing to be rash, which is a loss of self-esteem.A person with self-respect is at least slow to express his position on the criticism of his superiors, and after rational thinking, he will give a realistic answer.In short, self-esteem has the standard of society. Only when people's behavior conforms to social standards and is praised by society can they have self-esteem.Self-esteem is essentially a manifestation of self-discipline, self-control, self-direction and self-evaluation with social values ​​and moral standards.

In short, self-respect is the most valuable quality of a leader.Leaders do their work by first relying on the power of truth and second on the strength of personality.The strength of personality must be cultivated and tempered by the power of truth, and the power of truth is even more supported by the power of personality.The leader's personality strength is the image and prestige of the leader in the minds of subordinates.An old saying goes: "If you have authority, you can be fearful; if you have faith, you will be obedient. Anyone who wants to convince others must have prestige." The image and prestige of leaders are shaped and cultivated by leaders with their self-esteem words and deeds for a long time. , by no means achieved overnight.However, to damage and destroy their image, prestige, and reduce the power of personality, due to the special status of the leader, only one misconduct is enough.Bacon said: "Virtue is like famous incense, which becomes stronger after being burned or squeezed, because luck can best reveal evil virtues, and misfortune can best reveal virtues." If holding a leadership position is a kind of luck rather than bad luck, leadership Those who want to strengthen self-cultivation, be careful with it.

A good leader should have a broad mind. The main advantage of being broad-minded is that it can improve the quality of life, improve the living conditions of all human beings, and enable everyone to live a happy life.With a broad mind, people can tell right from wrong, know good from evil, have love, and understand courtesy, so that society can be more prosperous, progressive and harmonious. Everyone wants everything to go according to their plan, but there are many things that don't go as planned.Therefore, there are often disputes between people, and because of this, there are many frustrated people in the world.With a broad mind, people will have the ability to judge things, know what can be done and what can't be done, and make their own plans based on this, the so-called "know what can be done and do it". With a broad mind, one can accept everything openly and humbly without being influenced by external things.A person with a broad mind can abandon selfishness, can follow truth and justice, and has a sense of security, so he can not be affected by anything and maintain a generous spirit at any time. A broad mind can also avoid unnecessary confrontation and disputes, so that people can maintain a peaceful state of mind.As long as everyone has a broad mind, they will be able to eliminate conflicts and disputes and live a happy life.With a broad mind, the causes of disputes will be reduced.With a broad mind, there will be no disputes caused by emotional disharmony.Because a person with a broad mind will not be emotional, nor will he intentionally use words to stimulate or provoke others.Even if you accidentally say something that hurts others, you will resolve it with a broad mind. With a broad mind, you can also distinguish right from wrong and maintain an orderly life.As long as you can maintain a broad mind anytime and anywhere, you will not only have a tolerant attitude, but also use a fair and objective attitude to distinguish right from wrong, and work with a responsible attitude. With a broad mind, you can also give full play to your expertise and achieve the purpose of making the best use of your talents.Everyone has their own specialty and wants to have the opportunity to develop it.However, because not every leader has a broad mind, having such and such views on people leads to the inability to develop the expertise of others. If a leader has a broad mind, it will break the limitations of all aspects so that everyone can Play to his expertise. A broad-minded person generally has a healthy body; a broad-minded person will be open-minded in dealing with life, and will not worry about unnecessary things, let alone disturb others.In real life, we can all encounter things that don’t go our way, and different people deal with them in different ways. A broad-minded person will always deal with difficulties with a calm, calm, and rational attitude.