Leadership Is Everyones Business

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Chapter 1

• Leadership Is Everyones Business

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The goals of this book are to

• Help you become more effective in leadership
  situations by helping you better understand the
  complex challenges of leadership
• Serve as a guide for you to interpret leadership
  theory and research

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The goals of this book are to
Cont.

• Integrate summaries of leadership with advice on
  how you can become a better leader

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Defining Leadership

• Leadership is the process of influencing an
  organized group toward accomplishing its goals.
  (Roach and Behling)

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What does leadership involve?

• Research to determine when, where, and how to
  accomplish something.
• Skills of understanding leadership situations and
  influencing others to accomplish group goals.

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What does leadership involve?
Cont.

• Rational, explicit, rule-based methods of
  assessing situations and determining actions.
• Emotions that will inspire action.

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Leadership and management are closely related but
distinguishable functions
Leadership
Management
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Leadership and Management

• Distinctions between managers and leaders
  (Bennis, 1989)
• Managers administer leaders innovate.
• Managers maintain leaders develop.
• Managers control, leaders inspire.
• Managers imitate leaders originate

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Leadership and Management
Cont.

• Distinctions between managers and leaders
  (Bennis, 1989)
• Managers have a short-term view, leaders, a
  long-term view.
• Managers ask how and when leaders ask what and
  why.
• Managers accept the status quo leaders challenge
  it.

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Leadership

• The idea of one-man leadership is a
  contradiction in terms -- leadership and
  followership are indeed related. There is no
  simple line dividing them they merge.

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Myths That Hinder Leadership Development

• Good Leadership Is All Common Sense
• Leaders Are Born, Not Made
• The Only School You Learn Leadership from is the
  School of Hard Knocks

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Focusing on Three Leaders

• Colin Powell - former chairman of the Joint
  Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officer in
  the U.S. armed forces, and the first African
  American ever to hold the position.

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Focusing on Three Leaders
Cont.

• Madeleine Albright - U.S. Secretary of state, the
  highest-ranking woman official in the nations
  history.
• Konosuke Matsushita - founded Matsushita
  Electric, a company with revenue of nearly 50
  billion.