The Position Myth

I just finished the workshop conducted by my boss. The workshop is about leadership and it was conducted after one of my people, who is very capable, resigned from the company. I'll talk about the whole saga pertaining to his resignation in another chance as I want to focus on the leadership issue here.

My boss gave everyone a copy of a chapter from one of the books written by John C. Maxwell (her favorite author). The title of that article is "Myth #1 The Position Myth - I can't lead if I am not at the top." Having read that article, I ended up with writing her an email (which I cc to my HR Manager, with the hope she could comment on that too). And this is my email.

start of email - "

Hi Boss,
Thanks for sharing with us the interesting article on “The Position Myth”.

My opinion is this:
I agreed 100% if we say “Title and position are not what a leader need”. In fact, in some organizations, position and title are totally screwed up. What leaders truly need is SUPPORT.

Support can come from Top or bottom. In country, the support is coming from below. In organization, I think it is most importantly must be coming from the TOP. At the end of the day, it must be coming from BOTH directions. The problem here is should it come from the BOTTOM first then top, or TOP first then bottom? My bet is in organization, unlike in a country, the support should come from TOP first, and let the leader build the rest (of the support) from the BOTTOM.

Egg first or chicken first?

Hi Mrs.HR Manager, I thought it will be good to cc you too as you are much into organization/leadership stuffs.

Regards,
Me

" - end of email