Leader with Local Wisdom
CEOs in many company especially in developed countries blamed as one of factor that make economic crisis happen in this century. Many CEOs blamed that they cannot lead and manage their business. And the result many of those CEOs fired from their company in 2008.
There is a learning point that we can take from global economic crisis. Because of several problems that occur caused by western style CEO, a lot of countries try to learn their own local wisdom of leadership. Every country, like Japan, Korea, and China, try to search again their local values for leadership from their own culture.
Indonesia actually rich with values of leadership with derived from local culture. And one of local values of leadership from Indonesia is the leadership style of Ki Hajar Dewantara. His famous leadership principles are ing ngarsa sung tulada (a leader must give guidance and example in front of his followers), ing madya mbangun karsa (a leader must be able to transmit his vision and motivate all his followers as a team), tut wuri handayani (a leader must be able to push the spirit of his followers and backup them with full support).

