The Teapot's Cabin

What makes a good leader? Such a generic question which many has learn to tackle...but first, what's your definition of a leader? Everyone has his or her own definition of a leader.. but i guess the basic of it is that a leader is a person who leads his or her team to finish up tasks that were given to them. In that case, anyone can be a leader... But what makes a good leader then? what's the extraordinary trait apart from the above? To me personally, after my 8 years of working, i get to brag that i finally know what a good leader is.  A good leader is someone who will motivate and inspire his or her team to greater heights. He or she is able to guide the team to move them to be more initiative in their given job/task. Guide here does not mean to constantly feed them with information and rules or procedures of what to do, but rather to lead them to the end goal of the task, as a back bench while the team is the one getting the job done. It is important to let the tea...

Need and Want. Two simple terms yet defined in such a broad manner. I was first introduced to these two terms during my tertiary studies by my lecturer, which have since stuck to me till now. He always tells us to only buy what we need and not what we want...and that has led him to wear the same pair of trousers from the first day we met him till now (maybe.....). that gave a huge impact on all of us, including me, on the vast difference between the two and how it has led us in our decision making daily...God bless this man! Lately, I came to see these two terms in a whole different light....in the form of persons...in an organization... people often don't view human resource as an asset, but they usually are...they are the hands that work the talk and the brains that generate ideas..... and it is down to these again..the kind of person you need in your team, and the kind of person you want in your team. Words does not mean anything if it is not furnish with the actions to su...