The Leadership (Versi Ikhwan Lutfi)

            Leadership. What is that? Every people often say about leadership, but do we know about leadership? The first, I want to tell you about the definition. The word leadership is taken from the word “lead” which has four manners, they are loyalists, educated, be an adviser, and discipline. So, all of the leader must have that manners.

            Loyalty means, the leader must have loyalty and power to organize something that he lead. Educated means that people are called leader must have a power to give good education. Next, be an adviser means that the leader can give us suggestion or a good idea for our problem. Finally, a leader must be a good example for the discipline itself.  

            Based on Gardner (psychologist) defines the leadership as “The process of persuasion or example by an individual (or leadership team) induces a group to pursue objectives held by the leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers. For example, when we want to be a president of BEM, we must have manner to give persuasion for other students university, probably, something like a twitter account that we use to inform our programs.

            Same as Gardner, George writes that a leader is ability to bring people together to achieve sustainable results over time. “They not only inspire those around them, they bring people together around a shared purpose and a common set of values and motivate them to create value for everyone involved.” Same example too, when you want to be a president of BEM, your twitter account must be a good persuation and give motivation from another student university to bring them together  to take a shared purpose.

            Next, Conger writes that leaders are “Individuals who establish direction for a working group of individuals, who gain commitment from these group members to this direction, and who then motivate these members to achieve the direction’s outcomes.

            In psychology, a new perspective about leadership was born, that’s a leadership psychology.  Leadership psychology is an integrates the study and practice of leadership and organizational systems with the fundamentals of human psychology to create a 21st Century approach to leadership. This approach teaches leaders the skills and perspectives necessary to meet the local and global challenges of a networked world. Leadership psychology emphasizes the need to understand individual and group behaviors as a complex system in order to achieve positive and long lasting change. Therefore, leadership is defined as the art of influencing followers to achieve success by identifying joint goals, finding best-fit roles in teams, collaborating constructively and dynamically, and adapting to change within their environments.

            Although people may recognize the need for change, it is often difficult to move people, and therefore organizations and institutions, out of familiar behaviors, models and beliefs. This demands an adaptive approach to leadership. For example, one of  psychology academy in USA has created the first Leadership Psychology doctoral program in the U.S. to understand leadership, followership, and to deploy the best research and practice to address challenges in for profit, non-profit, higher education, healthcare, and government domains. I think It’s very interesting think.

            What about in Islam theory? Imam Ghazali says that leadership is a how to be a great influence, like maqamuka fii qulub al-nas. Next, we know that Rasulullah saw is a great leader that give us a great influence in Islam, and specially in our life. Rasullah saw have a special characteristic to be a leader. There are siddiq, fathonah, amanah, wa tabligh. 

            Siddiq means that the leader is a honest people and always try to be a right people, in ayat (QS. Al Qalam: 4)

4. dan Sesungguhnya kamu benar-benar berbudi pekerti yang agung.

            Fathonah means that the leader is a smart people and have a high intellectual, in ayat (Al Baqarah: 269)

269. Allah menganugerahkan Al Hikmah (kefahaman yang dalam tentang Al Quran dan As Sunnah) kepada siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya. dan Barangsiapa yang dianugerahi hikmah, ia benar-benar telah dianugerahi karunia yang banyak. dan hanya orang-orang yang berakallah yang dapat mengambil pelajaran (dari firman Allah).

             Amanah means that the leader is trust men, in ayat (QS. Al Ahzab: 21)

21. Sesungguhnya telah ada pada (diri) Rasulullah itu suri teladan yang baik bagimu (yaitu) bagi orang yang mengharap (rahmat) Allah dan (kedatangan) hari kiamat dan Dia banyak menyebut Allah.

            Finally the leader must be Tabligh, when leader always try to give information that he knows, in ayat (Asyu ara’: 84)

84. dan Jadikanlah aku buah tutur yang baik bagi orang-orang (yang datang) Kemudian,

            In Islam, there are many ways to say Leadership, there are  khalifah, imamah, ra’in and ulil amri, and they have a specific characteristic too. And you know, the ayats that want to tell about leadership are:

QS. Al Baqarah: 30

30. Ingatlah ketika Tuhanmu berfirman kepada Para Malaikat: "Sesungguhnya aku hendak

menjadikan (khalifah) di bumi itu orang yang akan membuat kerusakan padanya dan

menjadikan seorang khalifah di muka bumi." mereka berkata: "Mengapa Engkau hendak

menumpahkan darah, Padahal Kami Senantiasa bertasbih dengan memuji Engkau dan mensucikan

Engkau?" Tuhan berfirman: "Sesungguhnya aku mengetahui apa yang tidak kamu ketahui."

QS. At Taubah: 28

128. Sungguh telah datang kepadamu seorang Rasul dari kaummu sendiri, berat terasa olehnya

penderitaanmu, sangat menginginkan (keimanan dan keselamatan) bagimu, Amat belas kasihan

lagi Penyayang terhadap orang-orang mukmin.

Or in a fenomenal  hadist from Imam Bukhari Muslim:

Setiap kamu adalah pemimpin, dan harus bertanggung jawab atas rakyat yang dipimpinnya; seorang imam (kepala Negara) adalah pemimpin dan harus bertanggung jawab atas rakyat yang dipimpinnya. (HR. Bukhari dari sahabat Ibn Umar).

            And finally we know that every person from us is a leader, so we must be a good leader (specially to ourself), because when you want to be a leader from another person, we must be a good leader from ourself before. It’s like how to ménage our psychologys, and It’s will be back again in our department, department of psychologys. Say Alhamdulillah, we were in psychology.

Picture:

From the picture, we can see that how the way to be a good leader. Maybe, one of them is a leader from this community, and to built the team he did not care about the dirtiness, etc. Because in his mind, giving a good persuasion and motivation by doing.

References:

            Beinecke, R.H. 2009. Introduction: Leadershipfor Wicked Problems. The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 14(1) 1-17

            dailamifirdaus.net Diakses pada hari Selasa, 16 April 2013

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_psychology Diakses pada hari Selasa, 16 April 2013

            Gardner, J.W. (1990). On Leadership. New York: The Free Press

            suryadiharyanto2003.blogspot.com/2012/06/kepemimpinan-dalam-psikologi-sosial Diakses pada hari Selasa, 16 April 2013

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