A leader knows, decides, and moves.

This is the conclusion I came to after meeting, talking with, and sharing my concerns with the leader.
It is divided into three parts, but it is one.
Even if you can classify them into head, chest, and stomach, if they are separated, they are as if they are dead.
You have to know to decide, and you have to decide to move.
To move in the opposite direction, you must decide, and to decide, you must know.
It's a cycle like spring, summer, fall, and winter, where it's hard to tell which comes first and which comes last.
But if I had to put it in order, spring would be natural.
After the seeds are sown, new shoots appear on the trees and flowers begin to bloom.
For a leader to bear the fruit of change, he must first plant the seeds.
The seed of leadership is information.
It means you need to know.
How much do leaders know? Do they perhaps only possess information from the past? In the information age, knowledge is an asset.
To be a leader you must know and to lead you must know.

There are people who focus purely on what they know and are happy with it.
The scholar says so.
It is not acceptable for a leader to be satisfied with merely having the enlightenment of a scholar.
You have to make what you realize visible in reality.
To make the invisible enlightenment visible in reality, you must pass through the door.
It is the door of decision.
A rough definition of a leader is someone who makes decisions.
Conversely, a leader is someone who has to make decisions.
The worst leaders are those who don't make decisions.
If you know and have decided, all that's left is to get moving.
It's called change.
The reason I don't use the word change is because I think it's too abstract.
It's easier to understand change than change itself.
If you stay still, nothing will change.
You have to move to change.
A leader must not be satisfied with what he has realized and decided.
You have to take responsibility.
There are many who talk, but few who actually do what they say.
Leaders are responsible for their actions.

There is no end to learning and knowing.
Decisions are hard and lonely.
Easy to say, difficult to do.
The saying that a leader knows, decides, and moves hides this endless hardship, loneliness, and difficulty.
That's why being a leader is difficult.
I even miss the days when all I had to do as an employee was to do the work I was told to do.
But all experiences are useful someday.
After night comes morning, and after winter comes spring.
That day is not far away.
If it's still difficult, don't suffer alone and fiddle with your resignation letter. Look around you.
There are trees that still reach for the sky today, carrying broken branches.
These are my fellow leaders.
Neither my seniors, my teammates, nor my family know.
There are feelings that can only be shared with fellow leaders.
It is the power of presence that comes from a fellow leader, a gift that you can learn without receiving leadership consulting and that gives you strength without receiving a bonus.

I hope you use the book that way.
Think of it as a conversation with fellow leaders, not reading for information.
If you think of the book's questions as your colleagues' and write them down as if you were answering them, you will experience the mysterious power of writing.
If possible, I would like to open a book in a leisurely space during a leisurely time, rather than in a busy workplace.
Because conversations become deeper in such time and space.
In Korea, at the height of neoliberalism, choosing welfare may be the most difficult choice one has ever made.
The fact that he persevered there and became a leader is something to be applauded for.
Moreover, in an era where the middle generation, the backbone of the organization, is disappearing, the position of connecting the upper and lower levels with one's entire body is burdensome.
There seems to be no way.
At times like these, we need to go back to basics.

It is natural to put people in leadership positions.
acquaintance.
The one who decides.
mover.
Sounds like humanities, not leadership.
Before being born a leader, you were born a human being.
The essence is connected as one.
You have to be human first.
We must become people who live meaningful lives and have a positive influence on the lives of others, rather than just being biological beings who eat and live.
So the beginning and end of leadership are connected to humanity.
Leadership in social welfare, where people work with people for people, must be even more so.
I look back and wonder if I was intimidated by organizational theories and leadership programs that didn't fit my body.
Perhaps my humanity is the best and all we can do.
It would be okay to say that a leader knows, decides, and moves like this.
Know me, I decide, I move.
I sincerely hope you become that kind of person.

Servant leadership, spirited leadership, reading leadership, self-leadership, genuine leadership, Lincoln leadership.
Leadership has no end.
There are many types, and leadership styles that are popular in each era are different.
If you go to a bookstore, it is still full of books about leadership.
Leadership training programs are still diverse.
So it's confusing.
What is leadership and what kind of leadership is required?

Let's not begin by defining what leadership is.
Defining leadership is as difficult as defining love.
Even if you define it with difficulty, it is difficult to put it into practice.
No one loves knowing and fully understanding the definition of love.
You learn about love by meeting people and parting ways.
The same goes for leadership.

Chizuko Ueno, author of “The Sociology of Care,” asserts that good care is individual care.
It is said that if there are 100 people, there are 100 cares.
To borrow a phrase from Chizuko Ueno, if there are 100 leaders, there are 100 types of leadership.
Now, at the beginning of the book, the answer is out.
The most ideal leadership is finding your own leadership.

In the days when overseas travel was not free, taking an airplane was a mystical experience in itself.
It was a time when there was no internet and no information about overseas travel.
There is no other way then.
There is no other way than using a travel agency.
We left the entire process, from plane ticketing, to the travel agency.
I travel, but strictly speaking, I fit into a travel agency's package program.

It's a completely different world now.
I've been traveling abroad since I was young.
I go with friends and at work.
You can take care of everything yourself, from flight tickets to accommodations and itinerary.
Restaurants, experiences, art galleries, accommodations, shopping.
Everyone just has their own tastes and styles.
I can't say which trip is better.
It's lowbrow to say that art museum tours are great and food tours are not.

Just as we live in an era where travel is tailored to each individual's taste, leadership must also be individualized.
One important reason to find the leadership style that suits you is that it allows you to nurture the individuality of your team members.
It's difficult to let others experience something I haven't experienced myself.
It's like the older generation, who haven't experienced a culture of free discussion, find it difficult to conduct meetings where ideas can freely exchange.
Leaders must find their own leadership.
Only then can team members find their own colors, and an organization with such leaders and team members can achieve results with its own colors.

--- From "My Own Leadership in an Age of No Right Answers"