Leadership: influence is the core

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Some time ago, Zhejiang private economy Conference to Zhejiang business people of origin, age and educational level, and other information publicly available. Data indicate that more than 70% of Zhejiang merchants only lower secondary education level, following nearly 80% comes from farmers; they engaged in industrial levels are very low, the size is very small, but eventually was able to play a piece of the sky of my own.

Leading these non-State-owned enterprises, have certain common characteristics of individuals — who are very humble:

Wanxiang group Lu guanqiu — æ‰;

Chint group Nan cunhui — repair Shoemaker;

Hengdian group wenrong — farmers;

Delixi group Hu chengzhong — tailor;

Aux group zhengjianjiang-mechanic;

Ockham group Wang Tao — Carpenter;

Wahaha group Zong qinghou-wage earners;

Zhengda qingchunbao group Feng gensheng huqingyutang apprentices;

Juneyao group Wang juneyao – farmers, workers;

Xingxing group leaves the immortal jade — farmers;

Rongsheng chemical fiber group Li water capacity-Carpenter.

These humble person, how can we become increasingly prominent corporate leaders? commented that the key is the culture of their hard-working, frugal, seriously, adventurous, smart features.

An international famous consulting companies last year's survey: Asia enterprise employees are most dissatisfied with the problem, first pay, leadership and leadership effectiveness, including effective decision-making, implementing the necessary changes, honest, and adhere to their own values.

Personal property cannot fully explain the leadership

Exactly what features or conditions can cause a person to become a leader? if you ask this question, then you become a leadership qualities on the advocate. Leadership qualities on the view that effective leader must have certain characteristics. Thus, almost a century, numerous researchers lifelong exploration enable us to become the leader of those qualities – stable ground exists on each person's body, to make people's behavior difference between those inherent personal property.

Early point of attention is the leader of the special attributes, including natural properties such as height, weight, appearance, etc.; personality, such as the dominant desire, self-esteem, stronger, better, and so on; the capacity property, such as smart, creative, and so on. Later, people have summed up the results of these studies, the formation of a distinction between leaders and non-leader of the six fundamental qualities that any effective leaders, most of them showed the following personal characteristics: aggressive, with leadership, honesty and integrity, full of confidence, with extraordinary wisdom, has led the field of basic knowledge and experience.

Enterprise leader himself holds the same view. For example, Microsoft's CEO Paul Mortimer believes that a leader in enterprise requires ten basic characteristics: the spirit of cooperation, decision-making skills, organizational skills, art, resourceful, willing to be responsible for, to be creative, adventurous, respect for other persons of high moral character.

Unfortunately, this was an attempt to personal characteristics of effective leadership to explain, after more than half a century of exploration, with no final conclusions have walked to the end.

Why lose influence?

To understand the effective leader's personal characteristics, it is first necessary to ascertain what is leadership. The so-called leadership is a process in an organization to influence others, allow others to try to achieve organizational goals of a course of action. Leaders are engaged in the process of the individual. Therefore, the essence of leadership is influence, is affecting people willingly, and hopeful enthusiasm to achieve group goals and efforts.

Obviously, this kind of impact can be achieved through a variety of ways. For example, threat, coercion, reward, etc. But all this is irresistible "its body is not order" the great strength. Thus, Western scholars according to their practice, and summed up the charm of the "leaders" leadership theory, where the charm with leaders who have demonstrated a strong and confident, vision, ability to clearly describe and express their own goal and unwavering determination, they are not rigid, but dare to innovate, often in unexpected ways, they constantly change the traditional, trying to establish new rules, they have on the environment of change and development, particularly with sensitive and highly anticipated capacity.

Mentioned at the beginning of this article refers to the characteristics of Zhejiang businessman, we are very difficult to achieve?

In fact, the leader of the required features, is very easy to do. Perhaps precisely because of the easy, so people tend not to focus and attention, and thus lost into the leader's influence.