Why A Lack of Leadership Can Lead to an Even Bigger Crisis
Sonia McDonald
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Why A Lack of Leadership Can Lead to an Even Bigger Crisis
Whether it’s the current pandemic wreaking havoc across the globe, a natural disaster, economic trouble or a business or workplace issue, in a time of a crisis, we look to our leaders to lead. We trust that our leaders will steer us out of the storm to safety and that they have our best interests at heart. True leaders are leaders who lead with direction, courage, kindness and empathy.
There are so many good and great leaders in this world, but there are also bad leaders. There are also those that are in positions of leadership, but don’t possess the necessary leadership skills and qualities or have no interest in leading whatsoever. Having a bad leader is one thing, but having a lack of leadership is a whole different ball game. The lack of leadership, especially in a time of crisis, can be devastating and can lead to an even bigger crisis.
This morning, I read an article by The Canberra Times published on the 30th?December 2021 about the dangerous lack of leadership and I found the below information from the first two paragraphs of the article to be interesting.
“Australians have every reason to feel let down by federal, state and territory leaders this week. At a time when the risk of catching COVID-19 has never been greater, testing and contact tracing systems are buckling under the strain and there are fears the health system will not be able to cope with rising hospitalisations many federal ministers, premiers and chief ministers have been missing in action.
“It took until Wednesday morning, after new case numbers in NSW had hit 11,201, for the Prime Minister to announce a snap national cabinet meeting for Thursday. He also pledged financial assistance for state and territory governments now engaged in a desperate scramble for millions of rapid antigen tests at a time when international demand for them has never been greater.”
You can read the full article here:?Dangerous lack of leadership during Omicron crisis | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
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Now, more than ever, Australians and the rest of the world need direction, courage, resilience, organisation, kindness, decisiveness and empathy from their leaders. This pandemic is unlike anything we have dealt with before and we need leaders who will be able to get us safely to the other side, so we can get on with a post-pandemic future, rebuild our economy and feel safe in our communities.
I’m not saying our leaders should be perfect because no leader is perfect (including me!), and each one has their own strengths and weaknesses. However, a great and effective leader takes the time to analyse where they went wrong and any weak traits so they can take measures to prevent these issues from affecting the community, business or organisation.
So, what is a lack of leadership?
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2 年Quite true Sonia McDonald (Dickson). Firstly we need to reset our expectations. Our politicians and media have been referring to elected politicians as 'leaders' for some time. They are not. They are our representatives in Parliament. Their job is to represent our needs and wants - not as they interpret them, but as we articulate and direct them. For two years we have mistakenly looked to politicians to take a leadership position in regards the scary pandemic and they have clearly demonstrated a lack of Direction, Courage, Kindness and Empathy. I believe the effects of the of all the current small problems, incompetency's, failures, are about to come together to result in a major social disaster. It is time for all 9 Governments and both major political parties to get out of the way, stop exacerbating the problems and appoint some true expert leaders to get us out of the Government induced pandemic problem (not the health problem - which they have botched up as well - but the entire Covid blamed societal mess).