FOUR TYPES OF LEADERSHIP : BY ARCHBISHOP ANGEL LAGDAMEO, D.D.

by Felizar Mortillero

I can still vividly recall the lecture of the then Bishop of Dumaguete, now the Archbishop of Jaro, Iloilo Angel Lagdameo D.D. in our leadership seminar as an eighteen year old Assemblyman of the Student Government of Foundation University of Dumaguete City twenty-two years ago. In that leadership seminar, he exhaustively discussed leadership to my amazement, I was awed in the sense that he was really a good public speaker and a good lecturer even if he was/is not indulged in politics, anyway he is also a leader of a religion and one of the pillars of the Catholic faith in the Philippines.

In his lecture, he said that there are four (4) types of leadership to wit: 1) Leadership WITH TASK and WITH SOCIALIZATION; 2) Leadership WITH TASK but WITHOUT SOCIALIZATION; 3) Leadership WITHOUT TASK but WITH SOCIALIZATION and 4) Leadership WITHOUT TASK and WITHOUT SOCIALIZATION. He elaborated such kinds of leadership to our approval and I would like to share it to as far as my recollection of such lecture is concerned.

LEADERSHIP WITH TASK and WITH SOCIALIZATION : This is a kind of leadership where the leaders have so much projects that were made for the good of the people and the government being represented by the leaders has great relationship with the governed. A concrete example of this was the U. S. Federal Government under the ever illustrious President Ronald Wilson Reagan. In the Reagan Administration, President Reagan had balanced both the domestic and foreign policies of his Presidency, he was famous with his economic policy dubbed as REAGANOMICS which improved the American economy which was in shambles during the Carter Regime and at the same time managing the COLD WAR properly and also bringing the government more closer to the people.

LEADERSHIP WITH TASK but WITHOUT SOCIALIZATION : This is a kind of leadership where the leaders have so much tasked being done, where many projects were/are made for the good of the people, but the government is very far from the people since the former does not have a good relationship with the latter. A concrete example of this is the former government of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As far as I know, the communist state of U.S.S.R. now Russia and her neighbors, was properly managed by U.S.S.R. totalitarian leaders, U.S.S.R. and her satellite states had improved a lot in almost fields like sports, economics, science etc., as a matter of fact U.S.S.R. was relegated from a third world country to a second world state. However, the freedom of speech of the people, the liberty of religion of the populace, the pursuit of happiness of its inhabitants, the civil and political rights of the same ... were stifled, violated and worst were even obliterated by the authorities.

LEADERSHIP WITHOUT TASK but WITH SOCIALIZATION : This is a type of leadership or management where the leaders/managers have not done goodness to the constituents but such leaders/managers have pictured themselves to have done something good for the betterment of the society. This type of leadership is only good in propaganda that it is doing well in leading the people, that it is properly delivering the basic goods and services to the people when in truth and in fact it is even destroying the government and the state by siphoning its coffers and even violating the civil liberties of the people. A concrete example of this leadership is the former Marcos Regime of the Philippines.

LEADERSHIP WITHOUT TASK and WITHOUT SOCIALIZATION: This is a type of leadership where the leaders have not made something good for the better living of the majority of its constituents and at the same time has failed to depict itself to be a good protector of the interest of the people. This is the type of management where the leaders/managers of the state have even destroyed the state for pushing their wrong ideologies and for enforcing rules that are likened to the rules of the jungle in order for them to realize their personal glories and aspiration AND FAILED TO CONVEY A MESSAGE to the world that they are doing well as the caretaker of the state that they are representing. A concrete example of this is the notorious former communist leadership of Pol Pot of Cambodia who was famous of slaughtering millions of innocent Cambodians for the sake of communism.

Now, we have just known the four types of leadership by Archbishop Angel Lagdameo and I hope and pray that we can get something out of this, for the betterment of our country the Philippines, for the betterment of all governments of all the states in the whole wide world, and would guide future aspirants of good leadership in the near future. Amen