Leadership

A Leader is defined a person who command an organization, country or group.

Are leaders born or developed?

 It is a question which makes people struggle all the time in business industries. From my perspective I think that leaders are more often made through development. I do not deny that some humans are born with extra intelligence, guts, and responsibility. Etc. But even though they have own those benefits, they still have to develop talent in order to use to their talent to the limit. As for leaders that are developed, they just do not have the benefits like born leader do, but those benefits can be trained by attending courses, inner students. Etc. From the statement above, It shows that everyone can be a leader though born leaders have it easier and leader that is trained needs time.

     

 Naturally, my selected leader is Tony Fernandes as you can see his catch phrase through. “Now,  Everyone Can Fly”- Tony Fernandes. From the word “fly”, airplane is the transport you can relate to. Tony Fernandes is the first person on earth who introduced the concept of budget airlines and has applied this concept by establishing his own airlines, Air Asia. From what I know about Tony Fernandes through the web, his leadership style is most likely democratic when considering the overall situation.“The guy who is not carrying bags actually subsiding the guy who is carrying five bags because and we need more people to carry those, even the plane becomes heavier it means will burn more fuel so invariably if you charge the same, some of the people who travel with no bags actually are the low cost to me. So, we are trying to make things democratic as possible as we can.  

We will charge only where you have an option like in bags and food.” – Examples given by Tony Fernandes.

So, what I admire Tony Fernandes for is his determination and courage. Before he invaded the airline industry, he suffered from his failure in the music industry. And he took another high risk by purchasing an airline for RM1 but with the terms that consist of $11 million of debt. Furthermore, airline industry wasn’t doing that well due to 911 terrorist attack. He had zero knowledge of airline industry at the time so he says that "It really was a little bit of stick your finger in the air and hope for the best.”.

Usually, presidents likes to sit in their own private room and having upwards communication within his employees. But Fernandes likes more of both which he has also set his own office table within his employees, known as downwards communication. He doesn’t want his small office being sealed with walls because he wants to let his employees know that they can come to him with problems. At the same time, he also recognizes his employees needs and wants better conditions. It could also help him to understand issues his department are having by working as a cabin crew, baggage-handler or even a check-in-clerk for day, weeks or months.