Write a summary of maximum 1200 words covering following studies:

1. What Are Your Blind Spots? Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders Back
2. The Leadership Killer, Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance
3. Extraordinary Influence: How Great Leaders being out the best in others
4. Leading Professionals Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas

Blind spots are mistaken but appealing management concepts that execute mistakes for great
ideas and that breed employee apathy. In management blind spots are the traits in a leader that may
limit the way we act and behave and therefore it limits our efficiency and effectiveness. Leaders are
usually influenced to five blind spots that can be hugely destructive are as follows:

1) Purpose: “Purpose matters, but it doesn’t drive our numbers. Profit matters more”.
Every employee wants to work for that organization whose purpose they respect. About
90 percent of Leaders think that that their purpose to not drive their organizations.
Simon sink says that purpose doesn’t concern what you do. It concerns with “Why you
do what you do”.

2) Story: This blind spot says “We have a compelling story to tell that our people care
about”. Most of the time, Companies background stories are often boring and leaders
think that these stories will inspire them but in reality it doesn’t. Instead of telling these
stories, leaders can tell them how their employees helped their organization to achieve
its goals.

3) Engagement: This blind spot says that “rational presentations engage the hearts
and minds of people”. You can’t win over people with full fledge pack of logics. Instead
of presenting slides on Power point. Try to talk to them in a way they wanted. Try to
speak to their emotions.

4) Trust: This blind spot comes from on believing that “people will do the right things
unless you tell them what to do and hold themselves accountable to do it”. But in
reality, if you force your employees to stick to rigid scripts, you severely limit what they
can accomplish as individual with singular talents and capabilities.

5) Truth: This comes from thinking “My people feel safe telling me what they really think
and feel”. But in reality, in many organizations no truth telling exist. In meetings,
employees are fear of speaking because they know if they speak their boss can fire him
or insult him. To remove these fear among employees, good interpersonal relationship
with employees can help.
Hubris is the worst enemy of leadership skills which poisons the leader’s mind and force him to
misapply his powers. It causes problems in the mission, reputation, performance, loyalty, morale
and ethics. Now the question is that what this leadership trait (Hubris) has on leaders. A leader
infected with Hubris becomes arrogant, selfish and always work for his own benefits rather than
organization’s goals. Hubris is actually the exaggerated pride and self-confidence. A hubristic
leader compromises on 5 main things:

Mission: A hubristic leader replaces organizational goals to his personal goals which
effect the organization badly. When he compromises with organizational goals which
means he is not sincere to organization he is just working for his own benefits

Performance: Employees do not work for those whom they do not like, so a hubristic
leader not only destroying his moral character but also the performing ability of
employees.

Reputation: A hubristic leader not only destroy his own reputation within the
organization but also his organization’s reputation. When employees hates someone
they do not work for them from the bottom of their heart.

Moral: Hubristic leader destroys morale. As we know success of any organization

depends upon the morale of workforce.

Loyalty: This type of leader is not is not loyal to his organization but loyal to his own
benefits which badly destroys the organization.

Ethics: Ethics is very important in any organization. Strong leaders are ethical and
hubristic leadership is the opposite of it.

For example: We have an example of United Airline CEO Oscar Munoz, in which a
messenger is dragged out of the air plane with blood. In this example the Munoz’s
hubristic leader cost him. As a result of which his airline lost more than half a billion in
one week because of his behavior.

In Pakistan, from previous 30 years, every prime minister misuse the power which he has been
given by the public. (PMLN) a political party use to think that Pakistan have no other option
other than them. Sharif family looted Pakistan for approximately 18 years and see what
happens they loses their mandate. Whoever who tries to occupy hubristic behavior falls badly
because Pride hath a fall. According to Cherokke legend, two wolves lives inside us. One is aggressive,
angry and proudy known as bad wolf and the other one is generous and trustworthy known as good
wolf. So a leader have to handle these both. So we cannot choose one but we can increase the ratio of
good wolf to be a good leader. So suggestion is that “Feed the good wolf but do not ignore the bad
wolf”.

A leader is the one who is representing his organization in front of whole world and he is a role
model for his employees. These employees learn ethics, morality, performing in different
situations from him. A leader cannot lead others if he cannot govern himself. You cannot expect
anything good from your employees if you are not working with honesty. A leader have to value
the values if you do not value then how can you expect your employees to value. A leader is like
a mirror for his employees whatever he do his employees tends to follow him. So, being
hubristic is not a way, you cannot force your employees to work but you can inspire them to
work. A leader when accepts his mistakes and fears, it develops the courage in his employees to
accept their failures and fears and work on them. In these 10 tips, interpersonal relationship is
important than everything. There are some key points to remember for extra ordinary influence
and positively affect them:

1) Try to help and encourage your employees for success

2) Giving credit to others and take risks
3) Make environment safe for your employees
4) Always try to boost them up
5) Speak to their emotions

Leading professional’s power, politics and prima donnas is a book by Laura Empson. He
explores the foundation of leadership and find out that how power, politics is involved in
the organizations. Politics is an unavoidable feature in organizations and it determines
“whose interests count more” and it is regulated by power. This power is the authority to
do things with your own and favorite’s wishes keeping check on your own personal benefits.
There is a difficult task for professionals to balance between private and collective interests.
Every organization have their own culture known as “Personal ethos”. Socialisation means
that leaders thinks about collective interests.

In Pakistan, power, politics is involved in every sector. Politics in internal factors of

organization is not beneficial as it damages the organization internally. In this situation,
leaders try to think about their own benefits ignoring the benefits of their company. Wrong
Use of power regulates the politics in which employees make their own groups and fight
with others for their own benefits. Leaders should know how to make a balance between
interests. A leader should speak to the hearts of their employees. We cannot completely
eliminate the politics and wrong use of power but we can decrease it by good interpersonal
skills.
 ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE OF WHOLE SUMMARY:
The Leadership Killer, Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance

What Are Your Blind Spots? Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders Back

According to holy prophet, Pride is a disease. Hubris means being arrogant and an egoist
person. According to Islam, Islam doesn’t allow a Muslim to be arrogant. Holy prophet said “N o
person with an atoms weight of pride in his heart shall enter paradise. Islam tells us to
be humble with everyone. Allah said in Surah Al Nisa “Allah loves not the proud and
arrogant”. The Almighty says, “‘Do not avert your face from people out of haughtiness and do
not strut about arrogantly on the earth, Allah does not love anyone who is vain of boastful,”

‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
“No one who has an atom’s weight of pride in his heart will enter the Garden.” A man said,
“And if the man likes his clothes to be good and his sandals to be good?” He said, “Allah is
Beautiful and loves beauty. Pride means to renounce the truth and abase people.” [Muslim]

So, Islamic perspective is also against the hubristic view, so a leader should be humble so that
employees can work with more ease. As stated earlier, a leader should inspire others to work
instead of imposing their orders on them.

1. Extraordinary Influence: How Great Leaders being out the best in others
2. Leading Professionals Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas

According to Islam, Islam supports the concept of making things easy for your employees.
According to Islam, Islam encourages to speak the word of goodness and benevolence. Hazrat
Muhammad said: “The only reason why I am send is to perfect AKHLAQ”. An act of goodness of
a person is dear to Allah than one’s wealth, and this goodness comes from good morality and
ethics. In any organization, ethics are very important, and these words of kindness to your
employees helps them to get the best out of them and do the best for their organization.
Hazrat Muhammad said: The best of you is who is best in the character. There are two ways of
getting output from your employees, by having strict tone with them or speaking the words of
affirmation which galvanize their core and sense of self. When you speak kind to them they
become loyal to you automatically and Islam also supports the words of kindness.

COVID-19 PERSPECTIVE: As we know Corona virus in spreading rapidly in Pakistan

and it is very difficult to work in these circumstances. For better relation with employees, we
must give a little freehand to our employees, For example: As we know there is lockdown in
some areas, so, we should give them space if they come to office 15 to 20 minutes late. The
second thing is that we must develop a proper safe working condition for them by providing
them sanitize-rs and masks. For better HRM, we should give them their proper salaries in these
conditions