{"id":6901,"date":"2017-08-31T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2017-08-31T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:09:14","slug":"column-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/column-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J.\u00a0*<\/a><\/h4>\n

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[eltdf_dropcaps type=”normal” color=”Black” background_color=””]E[\/eltdf_dropcaps]veryone has a theory about leadership, but all of us want strong, effective, and moral leaders. They\u2019re in great demand but hard to find. Families and schools, sports teams, businesses, and faith traditions rise or fall on leadership. Governments, armies, and nations rise or fall on leadership. According to James MacGregor Burns, historian and political scientist, leadership is \u201cthe process by which groups, organizations, and societies attempt to achieve common goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Political leadership is a matter of personality, and it concerns the relation of authority and power with the people. Yet, within this definition lies a mysterious and mercurial quality known as temperament\u2014the most difficult characteristic to gauge in a leader, the most challenging to pin down.\u00a0 Different leadership styles and different temperaments produce varying degrees of success or failure, a topic requiring lengthy discussions.<\/p>\n

In this essay, we will consider three aspects of leadership: personal and professional qualities of leaders, vision, and decision-making.<\/p>\n

Personal and Professional Qualities of Leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n

To paraphrase the Hallmark motto: The nation should care enough to elect the very best men and women with proven effective leadership, strength of character, and moral probity.<\/p>\n

Character<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leaders should reflect on a key question: Who must I be, and what must I do to bring about and advance the vision I have for the common good?\u00a0 Having learned the art of self-discipline, strong leaders are master listeners, master communicators, and masters of their emotions.\u00a0 Honesty lives at the core of their moral compass; it undergirds and supports the public trust. Strong, effective, and moral leaders speak the truth to themselves and to others without shaving it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0On the eve of Britain\u2019s entrance into World War II, Winston Churchill delivered the stark and sobering truth to a nation in distress:\u00a0 \u201cI have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.\u201d<\/div>\n

George Washington was acclaimed for his integrity, wisdom, and astounding courage on the battlefield, and Nelson Mandela, as a \u201ccolossus of unimpeachable character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rose Kennedy was not a public figure but the matriarch of a family of political leaders.\u00a0 She inspired thousands of men and women through her courage in the face of so many family tragedies.<\/p>\n

The Burmese-Myanmar politician, statesperson, and author Aung San Suu Kyi has inspired women throughout the world for her courage to withstand fifteen years of house arrest by the authorities who considered her an enemy of the state.\u00a0 She writes in\u00a0Freedom from Fear<\/em>: \u201cIt is not power that corrupts but fear.\u00a0 Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Communication Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n

Effective leaders have the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a charismatic patrician. With his clear sense of\u00a0noblesse oblige<\/em>, he led the country through the Great Depression.\u00a0 From his struggle with polio, he learned to empathize with others.\u00a0 Roosevelt\u2019s fireside chats gave him a direct, personal, and immediate contact with the country.\u00a0 He simplified his grand-scale programs capped by the motto, \u201cThe New Deal\u201d which gave jobs to the millions of unemployed roaming the streets in despair.<\/p>\n

As a sickly child and young adult, President John F. Kennedy spent many solitary hours with books.\u00a0 The breadth of his reading history and politics, literature, science, travel, and biography served as one source of his eloquence, whether in prepared speeches or presented spontaneously.\u00a0 His press conferences became the stuff of conversation pieces in Washington. The press corps was riveted as much on Kennedy\u2019s oratory as on his responses to questions. Here was a master communicator thoroughly enjoying his own press conferences.<\/p>\n

Winston Churchill\u2019s strongest quality as a leader was his ability to inspire others, despite the ominous circumstances Britain was facing during his tenure as Prime Minister.\u00a0 The source of this ability lay in his own character\u2014and of course his ability to find the right words to fit the country\u2019s mood.\u00a0 On the eve of World War II in 1940, Churchill declared before the House of Commons: \u201cWe shall go on to the end.\u00a0 We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.\u00a0 We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.\u201d\u00a0 Labor MP Josiah Wedgwood promptly responded:\u00a0 \u201cThat was worth 1,000 guns, and the speeches of 1,000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April 1963, when President Kennedy made Churchill an Honorary Citizen of the United States\u2014Churchill\u2019s mother was an American\u2014the President offered this word of praise: \u201cHe mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sense of Humor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Strong leaders have a developed sense of humor that may enhance their Office.\u00a0 \u201cI am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it,\u201d declared the President in the spring of 1961 on their visit to France.<\/p>\n

Acerbic wit was never far from President Lincoln\u2019s lips or from Winston Churchill\u2019s.\u00a0 In a letter to his good friend, Joshua F. Speed, Lincoln wrote, \u201cWhen the Know-Nothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will read: ‘All men are created equal except negroes, foreigners and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty\u2014to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.\u201d\u00a0 Regarding his pro-slavery opponents Lincoln declared, \u201cWhenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.\u201d<\/p>\n

One evening as a tired and wobbly Churchill was leaving the House of Commons, the Labor MP Bessie Braddock accused him of being disgustingly drunk.\u201d He replied: \u201cBessie, my dear, . . . you are disgustingly ugly.\u00a0 But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Vision<\/strong><\/div>\n

Leaders have vision, a quality that conceives of an idea or sees a picture into the future before others can visualize it.\u00a0 St. Ignatius of Loyola chose and trained leaders who would be affable, attractive, and persuasive messengers of his vision and not those who were rich or powerful.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Back to Methuselah<\/em>, George Bernard Shaw wrote: \u201cYou dream dreams and say \u201cWhy?\u201d\u00a0 But I dream dreams that never were and say \u201cWhy not?\u201d\u00a0 His words were paraphrased by Robert F. Kennedy in his 1968 campaign for the presidential nomination.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Transformative leaders can rouse a nation to action when their goals are persuasive. They articulate a shared\u00a0raison d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em>\u00a0in words such as the Rev. Martin L. King, Jr. orated in his \u201cI have a dream\u201d speech.\u201d\u00a0 He asked men and women to dream today and tomorrow of a better America.<\/p>\n

In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy put his vision this way: \u201cAnd so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you\u2014ask what you can do for your country.\u201d He simplified this vision in the motto: \u201cThe New Frontier.\u201d\u00a0 This phrase encompassed pursuits in science and the arts, foreign affairs, race and inequality.\u00a0 He invited the country to become pioneers on this noble quest.\u00a0 Soon the Peace Corps appealed to the generosity and self-sacrifice of American youth to serve all over the world.<\/p>\n

It is no small thing for leaders to touch our hearts and minds by appealing to \u201cthe better angels of our nature,\u201d a phrase of Charles Dickens which Lincoln quoted in his First Inaugural Address.<\/p>\n

Decision-Making<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leaders make decisions throughout the course of a day or over a longer period of time.\u00a0 Some decisions are so consequential they can change the public image of an organization.\u00a0 Such was the case with a decision taken at Vatican II regarding the fate of Gregorian chant.\u00a0 At the close of the Council, it was hastily whisked away from parish Masses in North America, though it was kept alive in a few monasteries. Popular songs, accompanied by thumping guitars and percussive bongo drums, hastily replaced it.\u00a0 Latin gave way to the vernacular.<\/p>\n

The pros and cons cannot be debated here, but music scholars were shocked at the sudden change. Gustav Reese, a noted expert on Gregorian chant, could barely contain himself at the hierarchy\u2019s decision.\u00a0 In a passionate cry, he exclaimed:\u00a0 \u2018What have you done to the chant!\u2019<\/p>\n

To avoid open criticism of the Church, other scholars described the drastic changes in neutral and measured language as the most dramatic and consequential of all the changes made at Vatican II. Internal struggle was marked by \u201cdefiance versus intractability.\u201d\u00a0 This struggle \u201chas sapped the church of its vitality not to mention the effect it continues to have on matters that are \u201caesthetic, political, sociological, or even purely technical.\u201d<\/p>\n

In times of crisis how do leaders make decisions?\u00a0 Some leaders make decisions without consultation, while others call for collegiality. Collegial leaders point the way forward to advance the purpose of the organization.\u00a0 Still, the personality of the leader plays an important role in this model. Whereas strong leaders get the best and brightest to execute their vision by delegating responsibility, weak leaders fear initiative and creativity from their workers.\u00a0 They lack trust in the abilities of others.<\/p>\n

To sum up this complex topic, St. Paul exhorts leaders of the community \u201cto lead their lives worthy their calling\u201d (Eph. 4:1).<\/p>\n

Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY, holds degrees in philosophy (Ph.L), musicology (Ph.D.), theology (M.A.), and liturgical studies (Ph.D). She has taught at all levels of Catholic education and writes with a particular focus on a theology of beauty and the sacred arts. Her e-mail address is\u00a0jroccasalvo@optonline.net<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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