{"id":157,"date":"2016-09-30T19:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.socsci.nu.ac.th\/en\/?p=157"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T09:46:08","slug":"dean-talk-no-13-leader-and-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Dean Talk No. 13: Leader and Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several months, I have been to several places and have met many people. Some of them are prominent leaders in higher education institutions, some successful businessmen, political leaders and former political activists. I have tried my best, at any chances, to scrutinize them and learn from them on what lies behind their success and failure. Most of these leaders brought me tons of inspirations when we were discussing, however, some of them made me depressed. As Naresuan University is now looking for their new leader, therefore, I will deal with the theme of \u2018leader\u2019 and \u2018leadership\u2019 in this Dean\u2019s Talk.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership, the term we use quite often, is an influence which people employs in order to bring change towards their own groups or organizations. Influence, in this sense, is not an enforcement of coercive power over the others. However, it is a reciprocal consent between the leader and the led on the basis of rational consensus. Leadership, therefore, is a mutual cooperation between the leader and the follower in order for the organization to achieve sustainable development. Leadership is not a politics of maintaining \u2018status quo\u2019 for only the leader\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership, thus, contains with, on one hand, \u2018the leader\u2019 who can build trust, justice, and be able to inspire the others. On the other hand, \u2018the followers\u2019 who are influenced and willing to participate and bring their organization to reach their aims.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed that the \u2018good leader\u2019 has emotional maturity, politeness, modesty, and strong work ethic. In addition, the leader has a clear rationality and power motive to bring success to their organizations. However, the most important aspect for all good leaders is that they all are \u2018happy\u2019 with their own lives and works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.socsci.nu.ac.th\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/leaders-inspire-action.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2.socsci.nu.ac.th\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/leaders-inspire-action.jpg\" alt=\"leaders-inspire-action\" width=\"638\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/leaders-inspire-action.jpg 638w, https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/leaders-inspire-action-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Dr. Patcharin Sirasoonthorn<\/p>\n<p>Dean, the Faculty of Social Sciences,<\/p>\n<p>Naresuan University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Translated from the Thai version by Dr. Watcharabon Buddharaksa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socsci.nu.ac.th\/th\/?p=3076\" target=\"_blank\">Thai edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several months, I have been to several places and have met many people. Some of them are prominent leaders in higher education institutions, some successful businessmen, political leaders and former political activists. I have tried my best, at any chances, to scrutinize them and learn from them on what lies behind their&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/?p=157\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dean Talk No. 13: Leader and Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deantalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.socsci.nu.ac.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}