Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno spoke on leadership (transformational leadership versus transactional leadership) during a seminar held at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Makati City, Philippines. Thus:
“A transformational leader focuses first in transforming self to become selfless, to look out for each other, to promote unity and harmony and to give more importance to the interest of the whole more than its parts.” (citing the late American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of a transformational leader).
“Transactional leaders motivate followers by appealing to their self-interest. They approach followers on a quid pro quo basis with an eye to exchanging one thing for another, such as jobs for votes or subsidies for campaign contributions. Leadership to them is more of a transaction, more of business where you get your goal through the bargaining of interests.”
“A transactional leader is obsessed with the completion of an objective with little regard to its moral and ethical hazards on his followers.”
See:
SC chief blasts RP leaders
By Dona Pazzibugan, Daxim Lucas
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:25:00 01/30/2010
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100130-250242/SC-chief-blasts-RP-leaders
