Advocacy and Leadership versus Leaders as Advocates
The reading focuses on the role that leaders play in advocating issues in their organizations. Good leaders should be advocates. Leadership entails empowering people to take a collective goal to ensure they succeed in the future, while advocates take actions, and make themselves accountable for making a better life for themselves and their organization. Good leaders should advocate for the process and growth of their organizations. Advocacy entails defining the goals of the company. The leaders should state the goals of the organization and the procedure to be followed in achieving the goals. The leaders should clearly define the territory by indicating the mission and the objectives of the company. All employees should adhere to the set rules and work hard to achieve the common organizational goal. The leaders should call their employees for action. The leaders should evaluate the whole process to ensure that they achieve the intended goals and objectives as planned.
The reading insists that the leaders should be accountable for the results. The leaders should give accurate data to the people they want to get support from. they should ensure that the people that they depend on to achieve the organizational goals have all the data required. The consumer of the information should be keen enough to ensure that the data they get is not manipulated to ensure that the leaders achieve what they want. The consumers should ensure that they observe the emerging trends and the data given should answer to the questions provided. Accountability is the new norm that every person in the company should adhere to, to ensure the company grow in accordance with the set procedure.