LEADERSHIP IS EVERYONES BUSINESS

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• LEADERSHIP IS EVERYONES BUSINESS

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Seminar on LeadershipMBAProfessor-Murray
Johannsen

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What..? Why..?

• What is Leadership.?
• Why Leadership is everyones business?

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What is Leadership..?

• The Leader always sets the trail for others to
  follow.
• The Great Leader chooses a path that others will
  follow.

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What is Leadership..?

• Leadership is not about position, title, power
  or authority.
• But
• Leadership is about relationships, about
  credibility and about what you do.

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What is Leadership..?
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Why leadership is everyones business?

• Leadership arises with a challenge
• Leadership arises with responsibility
• Leadership arises with creativity
• Leadership arises with opportunity

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You are the most important leader in your
organization

• The leaders who have the most influence on people
  are those who are the closest to them.
• Theres no escape. Leadership is everyones
  business.

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Leadership is learned.

• Are leaders born or made?
• We are all born. What we do with what we have
  before we die is up to us.
• Leadership is an observable set of skill and
  abilities.

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Leaders make a difference

• Person to person and over time, leaders make
  difference.

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First lead yourself

• Leadership development is self-development.
• The quest for leadership is first and inner quest
  to discover who you are.
• Learning to lead is about discovering what you
  care about and value.

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Moral Leadership Calls Us to Higher Purposes

• Leadership is amoral but leaders are moral or
  immoral
• Higher purposes through establishing moral values
• Great leaders must have done some soul searching
• Daily decisions are infused with purpose when
  ones principles are clarified

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Moral Leadership Calls Us to Higher Purposes

• Organizational life is stormy, so a personal
  creed is a necessary point of reference
• Leaders take people where they have never gone
  before
• The most critical knowledge of all is
  self-knowledge
• Explore the inner territory to step out into the
  unknown

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Morality in Action

• In the Washington Post, on Sunday, November 13,
  2005, the Dalai Lama, while giving a talk on
  science and morality is quoted as having said
• "It is no longer adequate to adopt the view that
  our responsibility as a society is to simply
  further scientific knowledge and enhance
  technological power and that the choice of what
  to do with this knowledge and power should be
  left in the hands of the individual, By invoking
  fundamental ethical principles, I am not
  advocating a fusion of religious ethics and
  scientific inquiry. Rather, I am speaking of what
  I call 'secular ethics' that embrace the key
  ethical principles, such as compassion,
  tolerance, a sense of caring, consideration of
  others, and the responsible use of knowledge and
  power -- principles that transcend the barriers
  between religious believers and nonbelievers, and
  followers of this religion or that religion."

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Humility is the Antidote to Hubris

• Virtues can become vices
• Power and importance are seductive
• Humility is the way to resolve problems
• We are human need the help of others
• Pride and pretense may lead to short-term
  success, but long-term weakness
• Self-effacing humor sincere credit to others
  lead to higher performance levels
• Leaders do not have to be perfect, but they must
  be humble and unassuming

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Humility in Action

• Upon returning to India from South Africa, where
  Gandhi had enjoyed a successful legal practice,
  he gave up wearing Western-style clothing, which
  he associated with wealth and success. He dressed
  to be accepted by the poorest person in India,
  advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi).
  Gandhi and his followers adopted the practice of
  weaving their own clothes from thread they
  themselves spun, and encouraged others to do so.
  While Indian workers were often idle due to
  unemployment, they had often bought their
  clothing from industrial manufacturers owned by
  British interests. It was Gandhi's view that if
  Indians made their own clothes, it would deal an
  economic blow to the British establishment in
  India. Consequently, the spinning wheel was later
  incorporated into the flag of the Indian National
  Congress. He subsequently wore a dhoti for the
  rest of his life to express the simplicity of his
  life.

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Leadership is in the moment

• It is easy to think too much of oneself to miss
  the simplest leadership opportunities
• Everyday we can make a small difference
• Say thank you more often
• The deepest craving of human nature is the need
  to be appreciated. William James, 20th cent.
  Psychologist/Philosopher
• Listen better
• The first duty of love is to listen. Paul
  Tillich, 20th century Theologian/Philosopher
• Be positive toward people
• I think it's an honor to be a role model to one
  person or maybe more than that. If you are given
  a chance to be a role model, I think you should
  always take it because you can influence a
  person's life in a positive light, and that's
  what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

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Secret to Success in LifeLeadership is an
affair of the heart, not the head

• Leaders must keep hope alive in order for their
  constituents to maintain courage in the face of
  troubled times
• Hope is essential to achieving the highest levels
  of performance
• When things are bad, we take comfort in the
  thought that they could always be worse. And when
  they are, we find hope in the thought that things
  are so bad they have to get better. Unknown
  Author
• If you wish to succeed in life, make
  perseverance your bosom friend, experience your
  wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and
  hope your guardian genius. -17th/18th cent.
  Essayist Statesman

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Staying in love is the key to sustaining
leadership over time

• One must stay in love with leading, with the
  people who do the work, with what ones
  organization produces, and with those who honor
  it by using the organizations products
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
  a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
  compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
  which have the potential to turn a life around.
  Leo F. Buscaglia, American guru Advocate of
  loves power
• When the power of love overcomes the love of
  power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix,
  20th cent. Rock Music Legend

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Conclusion

• All the leaders were born but leadership was not.
• Everyone is leader
• Leadership is happening in anytime.
• Love is the essential element of a good leader.

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References

• Leadership Theory And Practice-Peter Guy
  Nothouse
• Leadership Challenge-James M. Kouzes, Barry Z.
  Posner
• www.wikipedia.org
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• www.progress.org
• www.allposters.com
• www.thinkexist.com

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• Thank You.