Transcript Leadership Effectiveness MHR 702

Leadership:
State of the Art
“If I were truly lucky, I wouldn’t have this job” (Ronald Regan)
“By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and
work 12 hours a day” (Robert Frost)
“Boy, the things I do for England” (Prince Charles)
(on sampling snake meat)
The Historical Progression
Leadership rivals in age the emergence of civilizations:
Old and New Testaments
Greek and Roman Classics
Iliad; Odyssey; Republic (Plato); Politics (Aristotle)
Renaissance
Prince (Machiavelli)
Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind (Hegel)
Contemporary Science
Business, Psychology, History, PS, Sociology, Communications
Why Should We Care?
IN REALITY, SOME PEOPLE tend to PERSUADE
OTHER PEOPLE TO ACHIVE CERTAIN GOALS
Some do it better than the others
Some can’t do it at all
What do We Want to Know?
• What do leaders do
• What are the circumstances
• Their personal characteristics/styles
All in relationship to leadership effectiveness
What do they do?
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What is Leadership?
Leadership has been seen as:
Focus of group processes; a matter of personality;
a matter of inducing compliance; the exercise of
influence; particular behaviors; a form of
persuasion; a power relation; an instrument to
achieve goals; an effect of interaction; initiation
of structure; a sense-making heuristic; a
created social phenomenon; a romantic notion;
and many combinations of the above.
What is a Leader?
A person who knows the way,
walks the way, and shows the way
and then:
impacts the thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors of employees to join the way
Experiential Exercise:
Who is this Leader
There will be a handout (#5)
Motivation & Leadership
Would we rather have:
An army of rabbits led by a lion?
or
An army of lions led by a rabbit?
(Napoleon)
Are the effects of leadership in the eye of the beholder?
Executives: Be Aware!
Beyond Caesar on Leadership ?
Caesar’s Gallic Wars Descriptions (1st Century BC)
Same as (1964) “9-9” Leadership Style Theory
Same as (1953) Initiation/Consideration Theory
How are they going to call it in 2500
Many are Pouring “Old Wine Into New Bottles”
(and charging enormous fees for it)