AIA6提纲讨论

根据孙远的提纲改编的，大家讨论一下哦

A6. “The type of leadership that an organization needs (be it a college, a country, or a business, for example) depends largely on whether the organization is stable or in crisis.” A6.“一个组织（比如说大学，国家或者企业）需要的领导的类型很大程度上依赖于这个组织是处于稳定的状态里还是处于危机中。” 2004.04.30

Complex。危机和稳定通常并存，不管是在稳定中还是处于危机中的企业，最好是拥有保持稳定和处理危机两种素质都具备的领导力量，很难说该企业要一个领导能处理危机却不能保持稳定，还是要一个领导能保持稳定却不擅长处理危机。但是处理危机的能力通常outweigh保持稳定的能力，无论哪种组织领导都应该具备。The real challenge to the leadership of an organization is how to avoid crisis rather than how to maintain stability in crisis.
A. 毫无疑问，能保持stable的领导是一个effective leader.Undoubtedly, one who can keep the stability of an organization can be trusted as an effective leader.
B. 但是，领导更重要是要保持危机意识并且确保组织在安全中行进。However, a more important quality of a leader is to remain alert against crisis and to make sure that his organization stay on the safe road.
C. 而且，还要把危机变成机遇。What is just as challenging to a leader is to turn crises into opportunities and failure into success.

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The author contends that the type of leadership that an organization needs depends largely on whether the organization is stable or crisis.  On balance, I agree with the author’s contention.  Different times require different types of leadership.  When an organization is stable, it benefits from leaders who can maintain the stability and growth; when an organization is in crisis, it demands leaders with courage, vision and determination that can lead the organization through the crisis.

   When an organization is stable, it needs leaders who focus on execution excellence, who can maintain stability and growth.  For example, Microsoft, after surviving the anti-trust battle, named Steven Ballmer to succeed Gates as CEO.  Ballmer quickly made it clear to Microsoft employees and the rest of the world that he believes Microsoft is now a mature and stable company and must behave maturely.  Under his watch, Microsoft quickly settled law suites and mended fences with other industry players, initiated the “trustworthy computing”, and refocused on listening to and serving customers.  Ballmer’s programmatic approach to lead a mature and respected – not hated -- Microsoft has won broad praise.

   On the other hand, when an organization is in crisis, it demands a different set of leadership qualities.  Organization in crisis demands leaders with great vision that can lead the organization out of the crisis, with courage to rise up to the challenges, and with determination that won’t easily flounder in the face of difficulties.  The saving of IBM by Lou Gerstner vividly illustrates this.  When he took control of IBM in 1993, the company was in a huge crisis and on the blink of becoming irrelevant.  Once a customer of IBM, Gerstner had a great vision for IBM.  He didn’t believe that IBM should be broke up – as his predecessor had suggested; instead he insisted to get IBM divisions to work as one and emphasized the importance of services instead of mainframe hardware.  His courage, vision and determination led IBM through the crisis becoming even stronger, and cemented his position as one of the greatest CEOs in modern business.

   Furthermore, it is worth-well to point out that stableness and crisis are not totally separated, static and absolute.  Actually they are interconnected.  One of the challenge to leadership in a stable environment is to always be on alert and avoid potential crisis.  In addition, great leaders of organization in crisis can turn crisis into opportunities and turn failures into success.

   In the final analysis, different times require different types of leadership.. A stable  organization benefits from leaders who can maintain the stability and growth; while an organization in crisis demands leaders with courage, vision and determination to lead the organization through the crisis.

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