Leadership

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Leadership Influence

• Organizational Behavior
• Cameron M. Ford, Ph.D.
• Summer 2007

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Approaches toUnderstanding Leadership

• Identifying predictive traits
• Identifying effective behaviors
• Matching leader behaviors to managerial
  function(s) required by a situation
• Understanding followership, leader/follower
  relationships, and cues people use to attribute
  the quality leadership to others
• Identifying predictive traits and behaviors

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Key Processes Associatedwith Leadership (Ancona)
Visioning
Relating
Sensemaking
Inventing
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Leader Change Signature
Future Self
Underdeveloped Self
Developed Self
Credo
Past Self
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Good to Great Confront the Brutal Facts

• Problematizing can motivate individuals to
  search for new approaches
• Fear must be externalized individuals must feel
  comfortable speaking honestly to each other,
  especially when differences in power exist
• Practices that encourage truth telling
• Leading with questions
• Engaging in dialogue and debate
• Examining failures without casting blame

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The Stockdale Paradox

• Retaining faith that you will prevail in the end,
  regardless of the difficulties, and
• Confronting the most brutal facts of your current
  reality, whatever they might be
• How can a company enhance its hardiness factor?