Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.

  

            January 7, was the first day of my graduate school class for the year 2012. I was 15 minutes early before my first subject at 8 o’clock . Most of my classmates are late for our first subject since they taught that we would not meet the class anymore as we already decided on what to do for our seminars and fieldtrip last class meeting but it wasn't that fixed. Our professor was just observing us while he gave us the time to think about the realization of our plan for our trip to Laguna as the other students coming to the class late. Before 10’oclock , time for Organizational analysis subject, the professor gave us a sermon about time management and stretching on how we behave as IT people in our respective organization.

The question was raised by a university professor for us to ponder, “Can we become a leader— can we become a manager?” All the students are required to make their own point of view with regards to the topic.

             “Can we become a leader? Can we become a manager?” for me the answer is yes. From my short experience during my colleges’ days, I became the leader of some school organization so little to mention, namely Informatics Students Society, Institute of Engineering and Informatics Society and even Student Supreme Government. As a leader you must not only be motivated to succeed, you have to be able to motivate others to succeed. You are not just a leader in your professional life but many of us have people that look to us in our personal lives. Now skipping the past tense of my life, I am presently connected to Surigao del Sur State University – Tagbina campus.

            Surigao del Sur State University have six campuses namely SDSSU Tandag – main campus, SDSSU – Catilan campus, SDSSU – Cagwait campus and SDSSU - Tagbina campus where i am associated with. The School is much more like a fluid network of interaction than a bureaucratic structure. The branches are powerful, exciting and dynamic entities. There is frequent cross-fertilization of ideas, and a regular exchange of information, especially between campus directors and the university president. Much effort is devoted to creating shared appreciations and understandings of the nature of the organization and its mission, but always within a context that encourages an open, evolving, learning-oriented approach to the university. The school is constantly trying to find and create the new initiatives, ideas, systems and processes that will contribute to its success. It is a kind of adhocracy, finding and developing its form as it goes along.

          School branches have a campus director and for me represents the bee by work and the university president act as the lion by nature of work. Somehow its hard for me say what is the most important among the two. I guess both the bee and the lion characteristics must go hand in hand. 

          As a college instructor, I, sometimes act as a bee and sometimes a lion. Applying both the characteristics of manager - bee and leader - lion will give a good result to oneself not just in the workplace but in the whole organization.