Leadership is Everyone

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Leadership is Everyones Business
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Chapter

• Lives of great men all remind us we can make our
  lives sublime and, departing, leave behind us
  footprints on the sands of time.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Purpose of This Book

• The purpose is to help develop effectiveness in
  leadership situations by better understanding the
  complex challenges involved.
• This book will serve as a guide for interpreting
  leadership theory and research.
• This book aims to provide practical advice on how
  to be a better leader.

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Three Leaders

• Charles de Gaulle
• Former French President
• Peter Jackson
• Film director, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Howard Schultz
• Chairman and Chief Global Strategist of Starbucks

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Various Definitions of Leadership

• The process by which an agent induces a
  subordinate to behave in a desired manner.
• Directing and coordinating the work of group
  members.
• An interpersonal relation in which others comply
  because they want to, not because they have to.
• The process of influencing an organized group
  toward accomplishing its goals.
• Actions that focus resources to create desirable
  opportunities.

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Various Definitions of Leadership (continued)

• The leaders job is to create conditions for the
  team to be effective.
• The ends of leadership involve getting results
  through others, and the means of leadership
  involve the ability to build cohesive,
  goal-oriented teams. Good leaders are those who
  build teams to get results across a variety of
  situations.
• Leadership represents a complex form of social
  problem solving.

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Leadership is Both a Science and an Art

• Bass Stogdills Handbook of Leadership Theory,
  Research and Managerial Applications cites
  approximately 8,000 studies on leadership.
• Some managers may be effective leaders without
  ever having taken a course or training program in
  leadership.
• Some scholars in the field of leadership may be
  relatively poor leaders themselves.
• Leadership will always remain partly an art as
  well as a science.

Any fool can keep a rule. God gave him a brain
to know when to break the rule. General
Willard W. Scott
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Leadership is Both Rational and Emotional

• Leadership includes actions and influences based
  on reason and logic as well as those based on
  inspiration and passion.
• Since people are both rational and emotional,
  leaders can use rational techniques and/or
  emotional appeals.

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Leadership is Both Rational and Emotional
(continued)

• Aroused feelings can be used either positively or
  negatively, constructively or destructively.
• The mere presence of a group can cause people to
  act differently than when they are alone.
• Leaders need to consider both the rational and
  the emotional consequences of their actions.

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Leadership and Management

• Managers administer leaders innovate.
• Managers maintain leaders develop.
• Managers control leaders inspire.
• Managers have short-term view leaders, a
  long-term view.
• Managers ask how and when leaders ask what and
  why.
• Managers imitate leaders originate.
• Managers accept the status quo leaders
  challenge it.

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Leadership and Management
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Leadership and Followership

• Leadership is a social influence process shared
  among all members of a group.
• Relationship between leadership and followership
  can be represented by the Möbius strip.
• Although indistinguishable in organizations,
  leadership and followership are not the same
  thing.

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Leadership and Followership (continued)
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Leadership on Stages Large and Small

• Not all leaders are famous or powerful.
• Most leaders are not known outside their own
  particular sphere or activity, nor should they
  be.
• Every one of us has the opportunity to be a
  leader.

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Myth Good Leadership is All Common Sense

• Most leadership literature only confirm what
  anyone with common sense already knows.
• However, common sense is an ambiguous term.
• One challenge of leadership is to know when
  common sense applies and when it does not.
• If leadership were nothing more than common
  sense, then problems in the workplace would be
  few, if any.
• Effective leadership must be something more than
  just common sense.

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Myth Leaders are Born, not Made

• Innate factors as well as formative experience
  influence many sorts of behavior, including
  leadership.
• Research indicates that many cognitive abilities
  and personality traits are at least partially
  innate.
• Our basic natures may be fixed, but different
  environments can nurture or suppress different
  leadership qualities.
• Leaders are born and made.

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Myth The Only School You Learn Leadership From
is the School of Hard Knocks

• Formal study and learning from experience
  compliment each other.
• Analyze what kind of study will help students
  learn to discern critical lessons about
  leadership from their own experience.
• Being able to analyze your experiences from
  multiple perspectives may be the single greatest
  contribution a formal course in leadership can
  give you.

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An Overview of The Book

• Part I
• Leadership is an interaction between the leader,
  the followers, and the situation.
• Leadership develops through experience.
• Leadership can be assessed and studied.

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An Overview of The Book (continued)

• Part II
• Uses the leader-follower-situation interaction
  model as a framework for discussing various
  theories and findings.
• Focuses on the leader, and the issues of power
  and influence, ethics, values, and attitudes.
• Theories and research concerning the leader how
  good and bad leaders differ in personality,
  intelligence, creativity and behavior.
• Charismatic leadership.

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An Overview of The Book (continued)

• Part III
• Focuses on followers.
• Summarizes research.
• Provides practical advice on topics such as
  motivating subordinates and using delegation.

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An Overview of The Book (continued)

• Part IV
• Examines how the situation affects the leadership
  process.
• Part V
• Explores several specific leadership skills,
  including practical advice about handling
  specific leadership challenges.

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Summary

• We define leadership as the process of
  understanding leadership situations and
  influencing others toward achieving group goals.
• Both education and experience are important for
  effective leaders.
• Leaders must weigh both rational and emotional
  considerations when attempting to influence
  others.
• Leadership is a whole-person process.
• Leadership does not occur without followers.
• Leadership is everyones business and everyones
  responsibility.