Seminar to showcase successful leadership

JAKARTA (JP): The Army's Special Forces, General Electric and PT Astra International have one thing in common -- good leadership.

The Foundation of Management Education and Development (YPPM) is organizing a seminar next week on leadership in the future in which these institutions will be showcased as examples of successful leadership.

Next Wednesday's seminar is to commemorate the late T.B. Simatupang, an intellectual and a military leader who helped found YPPM. He died in 1990.

The seminar will look at the kind of leadership governments, businesses and social organizations will need going into the next century.

The armed forces has supplied many leaders to government positions which is a tribute to its education system, organizers said.

The seminar will look at the preparations and the profiles of leaders in elite military organizations like the Special Forces.

It will also look at corporate leadership and what it means in international corporations like General Electric.

The seminar will examine how Astra applied GE's center for leadership development concept by establishing the Astra Management Development Institute.

Organizers cited management guru Peter F. Drucker who said business corporations could learn from social organizations about how to survive even though they were not profit oriented.

"Many management experts are surprised to find that non- governmental organizations can operate smoothly and command strong loyalty from their members even though they are not as well rewarded as they would be in business," organizers said.

Speakers in the seminar will include transmigration minister Siswono Yudohusodo and Maj. Gen. Bambang Yudhoyono, assistant for sociopolitical affairs to the armed forces' sociopolitical chief.

Speakers from the business sector will be Singapore Telecoms chairman Koh Boon Hwee and Astra International vice president B. Subianto, while social organizations will be represented by Malaysian AIDS Council president Marina Mahathir and Indonesian legislator Nafsiah Mboi. (09)