Four leadership myths

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Four leadership myths

• Everyone can be a leader
• - no they cant
• Leaders deliver better results
• - not always
• People who get to the top are leaders
• - not necessarily
• Leaders are great coaches
• - rarely
• Source
  Goffee and Jones

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Four thoughts on leadership

• Focus on process as well as people
• Truly understand your organisation
• Strive for sense and coherence
• Achieve clarity through conversation
• 
  Source Bicknell and OConnor

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Four priorities for a leader

• Assess organisational context
• Envision the future
• Align people
• Show the way

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Four parts to a leaders fundamental state

• Results centred
• Venturing beyond familiar territory to pursue
  ambitious new outcomes
• Internally directed
• Behaving according to values
• Other focused
• Putting the collective good first
• Externally open
• Learning from the environment and recognising
  when there is a need for change
• Source
  Quinn

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Four things leaders must be

• Open minded and flexible
• Caring and service oriented
• Team players
• Communicators
• Personally effective and accountable
• Source
  Pepe

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Four unintentional biases in decision making

• Implicit prejudice
• Bias that emerges from unconscious beliefs
• In-group favouritism
• Bias that favours your group
• Over-claiming credit
• Bias that favours you
• Conflict of interest
• Bias that favours those that favour you
• Source
  Banaji et al

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Four ways not to persuade

• Make your case up front, with hard sell
• Resist compromise
• Assume a great argument/case is the secret to
  success
• See assumption as a one shot effort
• Source
  Conger

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Five things leaders must do

• Focus and concentrate
• Reveal and engage
• Timeshift and re-place
• Delegate and develop
• Explore and venture
• 
  Source Friedman

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Five responsibilities for leaders

• Provide direction
• Offer protection from external threats
• Clarify roles and responsibilities
• Manage conflict and maintain order
• Shape and manage norms
• Source
  Heifetz and Laurie

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Five ways to make leadership succession planning
work

• Focus on development
• Identify lynchpin positions
• Make it transparent
• Measure progress regularly
• Keep it flexible
• Source
  Conger and Fulmer

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Six schools of leadership

• Trait
• Behavioural or style
• Contingency
• Visionary or charismatic
• Emotional intelligence
• Competency
• Source
  Dulewicz et al

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Six leadership styles

• Visionary
• Coaching
• Affiliative
• Democratic
• Pacesetting
• Commanding
• Source
  Goleman et al

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Six challenges for leaders

• Earn trust tell the truth
• Engage with the organisation
• Maintain focus and consistency of purpose
• Deliver performance to be proud of
• Provide opportunities for growth
• 
  Source Eisenstadt et al

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Six ways to counter follower dissent

• Keep vision and values front and centre
• Make sure people disagree
• Cultivate truth tellers
• Do as you would be done to you
• Honour your intuition
• Delegate dont desert
• Source
  Offermann

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Seven steps to leadership failure

• Self confidence
• Self promotion
• Self admiration
• Self worship
• Self exclusion
• Self indulgence
• Self destruction
• Source Lewis and Boone