Fundamental Leadership Factors 11 to 15

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Fundamental Factors of Leadership 11 to 15

Leadership Factor Eleven:

Due to the contrary and divergent purposes and interests of individuals in a community, the determination of the specific freedoms and restraints to ensure the preservation of those desirable interests are generally acknowledged as common to the individuals in the community is vital.

The acknowledgment and protection of these personal interests are summed up as common interests that enable the individual to accept the administration of the community, society, or group over himself or herself.

Notwithstanding the magnitude of the following forces, a group, community, or society needs to grant recognition, acknowledgment, and protection of those interests, purposes, and freedoms the individuals consider essential for the group, community, or society to survive.

The forces are:

1. 1. 1. Forces that are assumed and available to the group, community, or society for deployment by the group that may utilized to overwhelm or restrict the purpose, liberty, and interests of individuals.
      2. Force that the conditions of urgency or emergency may demand to address or curtail certain threats that may confront the group, community, or society.
      3. Forces assumed by some social administrations that tend to discount the interests and existence of the individuals, or internal factors within a group community, or society.

These forces or factors, and others, should not be permanent reasons why a group, community, or society should curtail, abridge, or destroy the purposes, interests, and freedoms of the constituent individuals.

To dismiss the interests, purposes, and freedoms of the individuals in a group, community, or society is a recipe for the ineffectiveness, retardation, or destruction of the survival potential, stability, and capacity of a group, community, or society to attain its goals.

Therefore, leaders of families, purpose-driven, interest-inclined, or culture-dictated groups must seek to clarify, understand, publish, adhere to, and give effect to protect the interests, purposes, and freedoms of the individuals within their group, community, or society.

Leadership Factor Twelve:

For the common interests of a group, community, or society to be monitored, maintained, and adjusted after their initial determination, publication, and member education, it is held desirable to have a few competent, ethical, responsible, and willing members perform such roles as will enable the group, community, or society to strive toward the realization of its aspirations and goals, both of the individual members and the group, community, or society.

Therefore, we have leaders.

Up to the Leadership Factor Eleven above, a group, community, or society stands absent of leaders.

This is because it is after the purposes, interests, and freedoms of the individuals and the group, community, or society are defined, and made to align that the activities of the group, community, or society can commence.

The commencement of the activities of the group, community, or society demands the emergence of individuals who have the competence, ethical fortitude, responsibility, and willingness to assume responsibility for the critical functions that will lead the group, community, or society toward the attainment of its goals and aspirations.

Leadership Factor Thirteen:

Due to the truth that only one individual is capable of decision-making in and for a group, and never a ‘group’ of people, a sole authority in an individual, monitored by others, to administer the overall and common interests and purposes of the group, community, or society must, perforce, be appointed by either despotic, approbation, election or similar means. Thus, a de facto leader is mandatory.

The outcomes of the emergence of a “group” of people to give effect to the administration of a group, community, or society are as follows.

1. 1. 1. 1. Where the members of a group, community, or society who determine and maintain the common interests of the community imposed their wills with despotism, a group, community, or society as close to absolute slavery or subservience of the majority to the minority obtains, to the fatal detriment of both the majority and minority.
         2. Where the sole authority to determine and maintain the common interest of the community has more than a certain individual, indecisions, arguments, conflicts of interests and purposes, egotistical contentions, and general chaos are certain in such a community, with the community partied into diverse groups with diverse interests marching those of the members of the authority.

We can easily confuse the sequence of the emergence of the topmost leader of a group, community, or society, and assume that they precede the formation of the group, community, or society or the emergence of critical leaders.

A group, community, or society that will survive and thrive, always sorts out its topmost leadership after the determination of the general and critical functions and the emergence of subleadership.

Where this is done contrary to this sequence, the likelihood of electing a wrong, poorly qualified, incompetent, or unethical person as the topmost leader occurs.

Ownership factors in economic and business groups can make this admonition inconsistent with operating facts.

For instance, if you establish your business, it is assumed that you are the topmost leader because you own the business. The futility and duplicity of this assumption are evident across the world.

As the founder and owner of a business group may not be the best person to lead the business, we find that many businesses eventually succumb to the incompetence of the founder or owner.

Leadership Factor Fourteen:

The key decision-making person and the individuals (the leadership) who are charged with monitoring the responsibilities of determination and maintenance of the common interests of the group, community, or society must have elected to have as their ultimate or desired purpose the creation of group, community, or society effects for the appreciation, understanding, and acceptance by the membership.

Otherwise, the leadership may have to abandon, to some extent, the pursuit of their interests and purposes for the good of the group, community, or society and its constituent members.

When the interests, freedoms, and or purposes of the leadership of a group, community, or society conflict with those of the group, community, or society, either they suffer or the group, community, or society suffers.

Leadership may have to abandon, to one extent or another those personal interests, purposes, or freedoms that conflict with those of the group, community, or society for survival and effectiveness.

A great leader and leadership must suffer certain inconveniences and make sacrifices to deny themselves the rights to some personal freedoms, interests, and or purposes that non-leader members of the group, community, or society may enjoy.

This means, essentially, that no one can assume a leadership position without making some personal sacrifices.

Leadership Factor Fifteen:

The second unnatural group, which transformed into a community, and thence into society was formed to aggregate communal efforts for mutual protection and survival, using communication as a primary force to determine and exchange interests, purposes, freedoms, and sundry valuable contributions.

The first unnatural group is the family. The family did not just appear to human beings. Those people thought that living together with other people with deep emotional and ‘blood’ bonds made for a better, easier, more certain, and more trusting survival of one and the whole.

This first unnatural group was discovered to be inadequate to perform certain functions, fulfill certain obligations, or obtain certain goods and or services.

Therefore, a group, usually made up of men on the one side, and women on the other emerged. This was the onset of every other purpose-inclined, interest-based, and culture-determined group.

And these groups transformed into communities, then into societies.

An understanding of the factors of group formation can greatly assist an individual who is concerned, has an interest in, or deals with leadership and groups in their critical thinking aspirations.