A New Sense of Leadership

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A New Sense of Leadership

• Chapter 3

Advanced Organizer? Nuances about Leadership
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• Value of Leadership
• Related to the success of the initiative, person
  or organization
• Based on persons need for organizing
• It requires
• An event
• Progressive encouragement and support
• Which leads to bonding, divisions and transitions
  that guide (influence) behaviors
• In the biological world, it requires?
• survival?organization?initiation
• and facilitation cellular interactions
• It also requires social skills or
• relationships?awareness of potential
• self or others

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• Leadership is an open concept that probably will
  never be conclusively defined
• Taking charge
• Helping others achieve
• Problem solving
• Directing resources for a purpose
• Showing the way
• Facilitating actions of a group
• Exercising power and influence
• Making things happen
• Coordinating a collective (interactive) effort

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• Components of Leadership

Is a process between leader and follower
Involves influence that affects others Occurs in
the context of groups
It also involves the attainment of goals

• Within the context in which it happens
• Hunter-gatherer
• Agricultural
• Industrial
• Technological

• Select period
• You are leader
• Select goal
• How will you get
• Information
• 5. What is your perception
• behavior of the role of leader

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• Leadership Theories
• Trait Theories and Measurement Movement
• L one unquestionable in charge with higher
  traits?the use of measurement of traits?no
  specific characteristic emerged
• Behavioral Theories and Leadership Styles
• Gain wealth through competition?maximize
  profits?leader (bureaucrat) dont think just
  do?efficiency, productivity, etc.
• Bureaucratic Control
• Era of depression and nationalism?manage large
  systems with clear boundaries of what to do and
  how to do it.
• Situational Leadership
• 60s 70s?more egalitarian view of society
  informed leadership?person could be a leader
  depending on circumstancesno specific skills
• Transformational Leader
• 80s non-leader leadershipmany leaders?informed
  by motivation, morality and idealism?characteristi
  c of the entire organization
• Systemic Leadership
• 80s 90s?management gurus, system thinking,
  teaming and strategic planning

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• Leaders in the 21st century need to challenge old
  assumptions
• Creating new categories of thinking
• Openness to different sources and points of view
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Primed by a sense of context? adjusting to the
  events of the past decade engaging in new ideas
• Primed by the sense of capacity?clarifying and
  defining previous assumptions construction of
  new mental models
• Primed by a sense of alignment?rely on intuition
  or insight from trial and error?align leadership
  behavior to intelligence?connecton with other
  leaders to achieve goals
• Primed by a sense of advantage?advantage of
  information (historic and current content)

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• New definition
• Mindful leaders understand and apply their own
  intelligence
• To the understanding and the application of
  intelligence throughout their organization
• To achieve meaningful purpose
• Premises
• Organization 2 or more people gathering
• Human potential of any organization greatest
  asset
• In order to achieve this asset, minds in the
  organization must be fully engaged
• Actions of a leader can influence whether an
  organization can be intelligence friendly
• Knowledge about the brain essential in all
  organizations