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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

From The Coach : Ini baru leader.

Entri yang menarik dari Sifu Azaman. Selalu nya : Bila sesuatu project itu berjaya, ia adalah kerana kehebatan Ketua nya. Bila ada sesuatu project yang gagal ia adalah kerana ahli pasukan nya. Tetapi yang ini amat berlainan. Amat berlainan. Best contoh nya. Must read! Sifu Azaman thank you ya. Pssst Encik Azaman, nampak nya cerita di bawah ini banyak macam karakter anda. Saya masih ingat dengan jelas kenangan lama. We shared the same principle.



Salam Fi,

Below is another article that I read before. This is to show what is a great leader is all about. He or she will take full responsibility of the team failure and he or she will give credit to the team for its success. Let us look around us now, today. Look at the leaders that we have, in our department, in our company or in our country. Compare. I am sure you will find more on the reverse side. Everybody wants to claim glory but very few will admit mistakes or failures (sampai hujan pun jadi mangsa).



A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure
(Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum, Philadelphia, March 22, 2008)

Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?

Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India 's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.

By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order.

My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal . It was a big failure.

That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India ].

Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed.

Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.

The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today."

I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.

--- Wharton India Economic Forum
--- Submitted by Chithambaran --- India

5 comments:

Noor Jahan said...

Salam Masterji....

Wah dah beberapa entri saya tak sempat nk beri komen. Sebelum Masterji call saya...cepat2 saya komen kali ni...ha..ha..saya sehat(gurau jer Masterji)!!

Alhamdulilah makin aktif En. Azman memberi sumbangan. Terima kasih En. Azman!! Kalau kat office saya...apabila kita share something...mereka selalu kata "sharing is caring"...tapi kalau kita sebut laju sikit ayat tu bunyinyer mcam "sharing is scaring"(just joking)

Good sharing & he's a great leader!! Normally what we see leader (bukan semua)who like to do "tai-chi"....(faham ke?). Anyway this type of leader sooner of later akan tergolek ke bawah!! Tidak akan ke mana....

one said...

Salam ji and to Sifu

Another good article sifu. I am a fan of APJ.
Betul kat sifu, nak jumpa leader mcm nie zaman skrg mmg payah. Selalu nya bak kata pepatah lembu punya susu, sapi dapat nama. And another famous word yg diamalkan dlm mgmt skrg ialah Taichi apabila failure.

Ingat lg saya experiance dgn sifu. Bila dah buat salah, nak jumpa pun takut tp selalu senior advice jumpa admit ur fault tentu x byk soal tp kalau taichi free jer kena screw. Tue yg selalu admit and minta maaf jer.

Rgds

ONE&ONLY

azaman said...

Masterji,

Minta laluan.

Puan Noor Jahan, Thank you for your kind comment. I heard and read nothing but good things about you from Masterji. Let us (Masterji's blog readers) share what ever knowledge/experience that we have with each other.

The One, yang part free2 kena screw tu sebenarnya mahal. The One ada terkena jugak ke? Masterji tu selalulah!!

azaman

nazima,r said...

thank you en.azaman for sharing this story with us.. mmg a good one..
saya harap en.azaman sehat.. we miss him at KM..
moly

azaman said...

Moly,

Thank you very much for the kind words.

Selalu teringat dulu kalau nak mintak translate Jepun, you are the one.

azaman