HOW TO THINK THAT LEADER SUCCESS

From the results of interviews with 50 leaders, Roger Martin found a way of thinking that a successful leader, namely integrative thinking, published in Harvard Business Review, June 2007. Integrative thinking by Roger Martin includes four steps. First, the traditional leaders only focus on the real picture and still relevant. In a functional organization, each function just thinking functions, such as the marketing department was just thinking of marketing, financial section only think of financial, human resources is only part of human thinking and the thinking operations and more operations using quantitative data. Instead the leader in integrative thinking when deciding important issues, they are very prominent, they are capable of thinking outside the sometimes less obvious but are all factors which are related and cross-functional thinking, and combining quantitative and qualitative data. Bill Gates who said that its operating system will be in every office and in every house there is a way of thinking windows on the first stage.

Second, the traditional leaders to consider only one way linear relationship between variables. Instead of thinking integrative leaders consider various relationships and non-linear relationship between variables. Larry Page and Sergey from Google's Brain tries to profit by not directly with the consumers of Google users, but non-linear thinking is mdapat non-users benefit from Google or the advertisers on Google.

Third, the traditional leaders to solve the problem by dividing into parts and solve the problem separately or in sequence. While integrative thinking leaders who see the problem as a whole and see how the one with the other parts connected together and how decisions affect one another. Charles Schwab thinks that bank customers are not just as savers, but also as an investor.

Fourth, the traditional leaders to make choices and choose the best option available. Conversely leader capable of integrative thinking creatively resolve the tension by using opposing ideas and new alternatives that produce innovative results. Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer integrative thinking when making an inventory of Dell Computer has a speed of 5 or 6 times compared to rivals Compaq and decided to sell computers online, which ultimately makes Dell Computer into a seller of personal computers in the world's number one.

The successful leader is the leader to use your four-stage integrative thinking was based with a strong spiritual foundation, resulting in a requirement to decisions that bring meaning to human well-being of the world and the hereafter. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize is one of the leading integrative thinking with a spiritual foundation that a world without poverty.

Source article: Mohammad Suyanto