Thought vs. Systemic Leadership

THOUGHT VS SYSTEMIC LEADERSHIP
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Thought vs. Systemic Leadership
In order to secure multiplicity of perspectives and experiences to fully inform processes, there is a need for adequate diversity that makes all stakeholders able to share their knowledge and thoughts. Every idea is vital and has to be valued since it yields a pathway forward as stakeholders are continually learning and complex issues continue to change. The learning by stakeholders is adaptive bringing forth services to the whole group. Since thought a re shared openly, emerging thoughts contribute to adaption and learning. Leadership thus is the process where ideas and thoughts generated are shared by individuals in an organization or group to optimize resources of the organization. Leadership relies on many steps that emerge from critical reflection and exploration that enhance a group to become more effective by raising the level of knowledge to all stakeholders on how things work out. There are two categories of leadership namely systemic and thought leadership which are both significant for success of an organization in achieving its objectives. This paper will explore the different types of leadership using emirates airlines as the case study to understand what these leadership styles entail.
Emirates airline is the largest in Middle East which started its business with only two aircrafts and its first route out of Dubai was flown in 1985. Currently the airline has expanded to a fleet of more than 130 flying over 100 destinations in over 60 countries globally (The Emirates Story, 2010). The company has been expanding at about 20 percent recording profits every year. Emirates airline has a cargo division that undertake cargo activities that provide cargo solutions in all its destinations, and in so doing confirming its future growth. The firm has expanded significantly carrying more passengers than before indicating that it is one of the fastest growing airlines in the industry.
The concept of thought leadership is term bestowed those leaders who advance in market place of ideas by being actionable, commercially relevant and research backed. The engage themselves in blue ocean strategy thinking on behalf of themselves and their clients rather than being product focused and brand centric mimics of other leaders’ ideas. The ever dynamic environment calls for thought leaders who are able to understand better and reorganize an organizations relationship and increasingly sharp on demanding and skeptical consumers. This implies that thought leaders have to differentiate their organization with innovative perspective that are inspiring to all stakeholders.
Thought leadership is embedded in culture of the organization empowering all employees by inspiring and supporting them toward accomplishment of their goals and that of the organization. Emirates CEO and chairman Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum is a thought leader who has created an environment that influence people to follow its direction because there is a clear vision that guide along the path in order to realize this vision. This is through getting things done by other people to accomplish the objective of both member and the organization (Brown & Posner, 2001).
Systemic leadership on the other hand is described as a discipline for seeing wholes through interrelations and change of patterns in an organization. Systemic leadership is said to span on the applications of efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency is the main interest in systemic leadership style that involves continuous improvement in production process by driving out unplanned and unwanted costly variations in the operational system. Effectiveness is applied in human systems for strategic innovation (Systemic Leadership, 2004). Effectiveness involves responding to nature of human variation expected by the public for their needs and wants unique and unpredictable. The influence of socio-economic environment defines the boundary for the process to be analyzed properly. Systemic leadership reflects internally on the manner in which leadership process work and improves how systems work for the benefit of the organization and business. This way the organization efficiency is enhanced as managers understands the application of production and service systems. Emirates airlines president Tim Clark is a systemic leader who directs resources according to established morals necessary for the organization to be successful.
Thought and systemic Leaderships plays an important role for success of organizations as demonstrated by emirates airlines, which has grown from a local airline to a global airline operating in more than100 destinations in 60 countries. This is due to quality leadership techniques, diverse and skilled workforce and quality customer service. The CEO and the president have shown their natural ability to lead the company effectively and economically. They are responsible by treating all people equally; being honest, hardworking and connecting their staff with their thinking and management changes (The Emirates Story, 2010). This way the firm is able to attract more customers making it successful.
Like any other company, emirates airline systemic leadership and excellent management has directs their members toward accomplishment of their objectives. The thought leaders have adopted a unique behavioral pattern that motivate and influence subordinate behavior. Consequently systemic leaders have enhanced the use of resources to generate revenue through appropriate application of condition that the organization achieves its goals (Reed, 2006). The combination of these leadership styles makes an o...