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There is no doubt that administration and leadership is an art and that one must be qualified to be able to lead a group of administrative, financial or technical employees in both the private and public sectors. The most important quality of a leader is confidence, so that he can be decisive in his decisions and appear respectable in the eyes of his employees and also have a scientific and objective view of the work that is being done and those who are doing.

The basis of successful administration is that a leader should not be in the center of every little detail and should share responsibility with his employees depending on the organizational chart. When the leader is the central point of the company that indicates that he does not trust his employees either because of something he has heard previously or because of something he experienced. In this case, he and his administration will be the victims of those doubts and uncertainties.

Sometimes you will find a manager who revokes executive privileges from people assigned by the previous manager and changes their work descriptions without thinking about the consequences of his actions just because he believes what has been said about them. And another manager will remove employees working in managerial or financial jobs because such jobs will pave the way for them to commit acts of administrative or financial corruption.

Some employees will be given managerial or consultant jobs without actually doing any work and getting full pay for coming only seven hours a day, and that is considered financial corruption because no one should be paid for just sitting behind a desk doing nothing. This corruption is a violation of the system, executive privileges, and any financial or managerial job description.

The manager should equally and wisely distribute jobs and supervise from afar to make sure that everything is running smoothly and if he indeed finds something wrong in the financial department, he should ask the employee first and let him defend himself. Sometimes something in a financial transaction goes wrong, which could be for two reasons: one is a deliberate mistake which means financial corruption and the second reason is an unintentional mistake which means that the employee is unreliable or just does not have enough experience.

Distrust and doubt could create an unhealthy and toxic atmosphere in the workplace. And because of that many could lose authority or even their jobs, which would result in work being delayed.

Furthermore, some materialistic employees may see this as an opportunity to climb over the backs of others by snitching and claiming to have information to please the manager and get on his better side. Under these circumstances, how can a leader be successful and lead his employees and company to success? When he realizes the consequences of his actions and how he became a sleepless paranoid person who led his company up a blind alley, he will say: “My paranoia is the cause of all of my misery”.