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(The author can be contacted at: alisalman74@hotmail.com) Leaders develop a bad habit of becoming
a model. They start believing and practicing ‘leading by example’. However
there is a flip side of leading by example, which means making people dependent
on your examples and hence rendering them ineffective. They start idealizing
the leaders and losing self-confidence. They become creatures of communication:
whatever the leader says is right and a must. I propose, therefore, leading
by doing mistakes, instead of leading by examples. Leadership by examples
has many problems. It is individualized and hence non-systematic. It creates
jealousies and hence lack of co-operation. On the top, it is tiring. On
the other hand, leadership by mistakes, and I mean deliberate mistakes
of course, is humane. It makes your team members realize that you are a
normal person, and hence can be at fault. It generates a confidence in
your team, which then shows eagerness to help you in coming out of crisis.
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