Leadership

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Leadership Management

• Discussion for Lesson 1 Introduction to the
  Study of Leadership

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Lesson 1 Reading Objectives

• The student will comprehend the historical and
  modern definitions of leadership.
• The student will comprehend the five fundamental
  transformations in today's organizations and
  leaders.
• The student will comprehend the primary reasons
  for leadership derailment and the new paradigm
  skills that can help them avoid it.

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Lesson 1 Reading Objectives

• The student will comprehend how their leadership
  potential is developed and the stages of
  development.
• The student will comprehend and appreciate the
  value and potential of learning about leadership.
  
• The student will know the three basic myths of
  leadership study.
• The student will comprehend the interactional
  framework for analyzing leadership.

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Lesson 1 Discussion Objectives

• Discuss the historical and modern definitions of
  leadership.
• Discuss the five fundamental paradigm
  transformations in today's organizations and
  leaders.
• Discuss the primary reasons for leadership
  derailment and the new paradigm skills that can
  help them avoid it.
• Discuss the interactional framework for analyzing
  leadership.

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WHY STUDY LEADERSHIP?
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Myths(?)

• Good leadership is all common sense.
• Leaders are born, not made.
• The only school that teaches leadership is the
  school of hard knocks.

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Acquiring Competency

• Unconscious Incompetence
• Conscious Incompetence
• Conscious Competence
• Unconscious Competence

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Definitions of Leadership

• Navy 1944 Leadership is the art of inspiring,
  guiding, and directing bodies of men so that they
  ardently desire to do what the leader wishes.
• Text 2000 An influence relationship among
  leaders and followers who intend real changes
  that reflect their shared purposes.

• Text 2000 An influence relationship among
  leaders and followers who intend real changes
  that reflect their shared purposes.

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What Leadership Involves
Intention
Influence
Personal Responsibility
Leader
Followers
Shared Purpose
Change
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• Rapid Environmental changes are causing
  fundamental transformations that have a dramatic
  impact on organizations and present new
  challenges for leadership.
• WHAT ARE THEY?

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Rapid Environmental changes

• Globalization
• Information Flow
• Rapid Technological Change

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Five Paradigm Transformations

• From Industrial Age
• Stability
• Control
• Competition
• Things
• Uniformity

• To Information Age
• Change
• Empowerment
• Collaboration
• People and Relationships
• Diversity

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Reasons for Leader Derailment

• Insensitive, abrasive, bullying style.
• Cold, aloof, arrogant.
• Betrayal of personal trust.
• Overly ambitious.
• Over-managingcan not build a team.

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The Interactional Framework

• Leader
• Position
• Expertise

Example Teaching

• Followers
• Values
• Norms
• Cohesiveness

• Situation
• Task
• Stress
• Environment

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DISCUSSION

• Define Leadership
• Greatest Generation
• Why? Hint Leadership Definition!
• How do you define success as a leader?

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Next Class

• The Changing Paradigm of Management.
• Decision Making.
• Read Leadership Management, Chapter 2.
• Written Assignment 1 is due at the start of class
  on the day of Lesson 5

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Summary

• The historical and modern definitions of
  leadership.
• Five fundamental paradigm transformations in
  today's organizations and leaders.
• Leadership derailment and the new paradigm
  skills.
• The interactional framework for analyzing
  leadership.

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Hybrid SailorsSea Power January 12, 2006

• Rating changes are business as usual for the Navy
  as required job skills change with requirements
  and technology.
• The pace of mergers, however, is accelerating as
  the Navy implements its Human Capital Strategy, a
  plan to reshape the way the service mans its
  fleet and shore establishments by reducing the
  size of the work force and achieving efficiencies
  and streamlining training, thereby improving
  effectiveness at lower cost.
• More generalists or hybrid sailors will be
  needed as the service staffs its future ships, he
  said. For example, the Littoral Combat Ship will
  have a basic crew of 40 to 45 sailors.