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Advocating sheep and other leadership challenges. Why we need a change in business education?



Leaders face many challenges and it is those which carve out a leader of him or her. But not all overcome these challenges, you need leadership qualities and more than that should use them effectively to tackle the challenges and grow. Never run away from them. 


Leaders face challenges like adapting to change, managing diversity and a lot more but we have very common ones but never or almost taught  such as the ' Advocating sheep'.
 Advocating sheep is a leadership dilemma where by one or a few number of subordinates advocate for you, and seems almost like they will die for you. Maybe because of your charisma  or something that made them to follow you madly, but the problem is when these advocating followers are the trouble. A dilemma arises, what could you possibly do to them, you have tried everything, the solution that lies in front of you is to fire them. The only thing they do is singing praise for you. The whole office knows this, "If this is what will happen to a die hard follower than what about us"  they might think, leading to stress and  demotivation. Moreover some leaders will find it the hardest to look at a co worker who sees them maybe like God and say you're fired.  


   Some possible things that you could do is get someone above your hierarchy fire them hence absence of a situation where you directly have to fire them, and you could convince them that it was way out of your hand.another case is that if they are extremely skilled but the only problem being they are unproductive as all the time they are worshiping you around, keep them at bay. Never show partiality and do not give them any more attention than they deserve . You could move them across to a  different division or chapter if found necessary.make sure you never demotivate them

Situations like advocating sheep are very common in today's organizations and business schools leave out on practical scenarios like these, making it nothing more than 'for the sake of a title' education. Tomorrows leaders should be induced to real life situations, Longer Internships and shorter lectures, more of entrepreneurs and less of full time professors. We need to revamp the business education so that our leaders of tomorrows do not stumble with memorized theories and equations when they get out into the sunlight.