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Chapter 1

Chapter 1. Leadership Is Everyone’s Business. The goals of this book are to:. Help you become more effective in leadership situations by helping you better understand the complex challenges of leadership Serve as a guide for you to interpret leadership theory and research.

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Chapter 1

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  1. Chapter 1 Leadership Is Everyone’s Business

  2. The goals of this book are to: • Help you become more effective in leadership situations by helping you better understand the complex challenges of leadership • Serve as a guide for you to interpret leadership theory and research

  3. The goals of this book are to: Cont. • Integrate summaries of leadership with advice on how you can become a better leader

  4. Defining Leadership • Leadership is “the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals.” (Roach and Behling)

  5. What does leadership involve? • Research to determine when, where, and how to accomplish something. • Skills of understanding leadership situations and influencing others to accomplish group goals.

  6. What does leadership involve? Cont. • Rational, explicit, rule-based methods of assessing situations and determining actions. • Emotions that will inspire action.

  7. Leadership and management are closely related but distinguishable functions Leadership Management

  8. Leadership and Management • Distinctions between managers and leaders (Bennis, 1989): • Managers administer; leaders innovate. • Managers maintain; leaders develop. • Managers control, leaders inspire. • Managers imitate; leaders originate

  9. Leadership and Management Cont. • Distinctions between managers and leaders (Bennis, 1989): • Managers have a short-term view, leaders, a long-term view. • Managers ask how and when; leaders ask what and why. • Managers accept the status quo; leaders challenge it.

  10. Leadership • The idea of “one-man leadership” is a contradiction in terms -- leadership and followership are indeed related. There is no simple line dividing them; they merge.

  11. Myths That Hinder Leadership Development • Good Leadership Is All Common Sense • Leaders Are Born, Not Made • The Only School You Learn Leadership from is the School of Hard Knocks

  12. Focusing on Three Leaders • Colin Powell - former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officer in the U.S. armed forces, and the first African American ever to hold the position.

  13. Focusing on Three Leaders Cont. • Madeleine Albright - U.S. Secretary of state, the highest-ranking woman official in the nation’s history. • Konosuke Matsushita - founded Matsushita Electric, a company with revenue of nearly $50 billion.

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