Looking leadership of my organization according to Fullan’s five components

By Emma

Nowadays, as the development of technology and the improvement of life quality, relevant industries have to catch up the continuously change of people’s demand. There is a proverb, Survival of the fittest or perish. Yes, the world is becoming more and more cruel, if keeping rigid, one may be washed out. So innovation or reform is a vital condition for life-long living. But even one realized innovation importance, it may not be easy to carry out, because many internal and external factors need to be considered as well. All in all, leadership in this moment and future is the key point.

Moral purpose: In my father’s company, most managers have realized the necessary of change, not only product improvement, but also management system development. But the boss in this company is a well-meaning but ineffectual person, he has contributed himself most in the beginning, now, he just wanted to keep doing the old products not making much change. By the way, the boss doesn’t know much about management skill, and manage the company all by feeling and experience. But the fellow managers have much passion on change, especially management system due to it has a lot of space for development.

Understanding change: the boss knows if the company wants to further develop, he should do something change. Such as multiple products(not limit or circle itself in certain area, considering about other products or other industry). But only fellow managers strongly supporting is not enough, the boss is a final decision maker(it is still a traditional and small private company, every decision should be made by the boss).

Relationship building: although the relationship between boss and fellow managers are quite good, it can not change the right owner of decision. Our ancestor said the power of public is huge, two brains are much better than one. If the boss still keeps rigid, the company would stop operating much quicker. Why doesn’t he discuss or listen to others’ opinion often? I can not figure out.

Knowledge creation and sharing: In this organization, there is a learning room which providing knowledge sharing and correcting. Every week, mangers in different departments hold meetings or give lectures or make conclusion on the product quality or something else about work..

Coherence making: Leaders need “energy, enthusiasm and hopefulness” to help make people “feel that even difficult problems can be tackled productively. Every company has confronted hard time, I remembered last year, my father’s company almost stopped producing 5 months due to the main client(Chang Jiang corporation) was re-organizing. It made most employees have nothing to do. But fortunately, 80% of employees didn’t choose leave. Besides, department managers continuous encouraged their workers and still paid the basic salary and give some subsidy to them. The whole company was facing the big problem together which made me impressive.