Lessons in Leadership Mr. Kitashiro

The guest lecture on Monday was from Mr. Kitashiro, the Chair of the Board of Trustee, International Christian University and was the Executive Advisor of IBM Japan.


.As the content was similar to my essay topic, and learning practical skills from a real leader, the lecture was really interesting to me.
I learnt many things that I thought I would like to write it down and remember it. So I would like to summarize the lecture in this blog.

three major roles of a leader
1. show the vision, set the goals : make the decision and then moving on. As you show the vision and set a small goal to each big goals, as mentioned in Shackleton, it motivates us to concentrate on that task and makes it possible to be done in a short-term.
2. show the way to realize the vision, execution : the leader itself can be the model of leadership, and tell others what you have to do by first doing it
3. encourage people in the organization : to encourage people you will have to communicate with everybody for example your employees. I was surprised that Mr. Kitashiro said that he talks to all of his employees (though it is not a one-one situation). But when thinking about myself, I thought that as my club has only about 20 people it is possible to talk to everybody in order to build trust.
 

"Be positive"
The word Mr. Kitashiro said was quite shocking for me. and the strongest message I got from Mr. Kitashiro.
The word was "By my failure, the world will not collapse".
I had never thought about that, I thought that my failure is a big problem for me and I will have to try to overcome that failure. Before listening to his lecture, I thought I was quite optimistic but after listening to Mr. Kitashiro I thought I am still thinking things negative and I should think more positive like him.

Another thing I was impressed through his lecture was his word, "People who can do the right things even nobody is looking at you is the person who is good at leadership".
It might be hard to this such thing than just thinking about it. As leaders are always being looked by others, they will have to be careful on their behaviors or attitudes. Although people might want to take a rest and do not do their work all the time, but as a leader that is not allowed. If you are a person who can any work when others are looking at you, you are not a person who takes leadership.

Mr. Kitashiro, thank you for giving us a great lecture!