Seminar to showcase successful leadership
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)