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Greatest Threats to Survival

Greatest Threats to Survival. Nuclear War Uncontrollable Virus/Disease Inability to Sustain a Healthy Environment Integrity of Society’s Institutions. Leadership Falsehoods. Leadership is Common Sense Determinism: Leaders are Born Leaders are Charismatic Leadership Cannot Be Learned

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Greatest Threats to Survival

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  1. Greatest Threats to Survival • Nuclear War • Uncontrollable Virus/Disease • Inability to Sustain a Healthy Environment • Integrity of Society’s Institutions

  2. Leadership Falsehoods • Leadership is Common Sense • Determinism: • Leaders are Born • Leaders are Charismatic • Leadership Cannot Be Learned • Mechanization • Leadership is Skill-Based • Leadership takes Training • Authoritarianism/Materialism • Leadership Requires Possessions • Position or Wealth

  3. Leadership Theories: History • 20’s control & centralization • 30’s: away from control toward group influence • 40’s: more group theory • 50’s: Behaviorist theory was added • 60’s: Behavior that influences people toward shared goals • 70’s: Transactional view of leadership, behaviorist • 80’s: Recast as “great person” theory

  4. Some Definitions: Leadership is… • Driving change and growth (a popular belief) • An influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes (Rost) • Deliberately causing people-driven actions, in a planned fashion, for the purpose of accomplishing the leader’s agenda (Crosby) • About making sense together of the unknown (Weick) • About making meaning in a community of practice (Droth & Palus) • The illusory social construct that we use to describe the process of accomplishment experienced through emergence (Woolf) • The process of maximizing the capability of people to fulfill purpose through the development of character (Jacobs) • Committed to vision, reality, ethics and courage (Koestenbaum) • To help people to face reality and to mobilize them to make change (Heifetz) • Inventing a new reality and creating new possibilities (Senge) • Contributing to progress by attending to that which limits and stifles the realization of potential (a new thought)

  5. “Three Skills for Today’s Leaders” • Learn to Be Comfortable with Ambiguity • rapidly changing markets • uncertain future • Learn to Be Comfortable with Complexity • organizations are non-linear networks • holism vs reductionism • Learn to Be Comfortable with Groups of People • authority not concentrated • organization is a social system Source: Harvard Management Update, Nov ‘99 Vol. 4, No. 11

  6. Some Qualities of Martin Luther King • Adapt Message • Learn from Experience • Inclusionary in Vision • Inspiring • Utilized Principles Common to All • Fair • Risk Taker (Challenged “What Is”) • Always in Search of Knowledge

  7. Some Qualities of Eleanor Roosevelt • Resourceful • Risk Taker (Challenged “What Is”) • Confident • Adaptable • Determined • Willing to Learn • Humble • Consistent • Sincere & Sensitive

  8. Some Qualities of Alfred P. Sloan • Creative & Innovative • Risk Taker (Challenged “What Is”) • Inspirational • Learned from Others & Led by Example • “In Touch” • Help Others to Better Themselves • (Mutual) Respect • Inclusive • Non-confrontational, Appropriate use of Power

  9. Yukl’s Leadership Behaviors • Task - Oriented • Relations - Oriented • Transformation - Oriented

  10. Task - Oriented • Organize Work for Efficiency • Plan • Clarify Role Expectations • Facilitate Collection & Dissemination of Information • Resolve Immediate Work Disrupting Problems

  11. Relations - Oriented • Listen Attentively to People • Provide Support & Encouragement • Socialize to Build Relationships • Recognize Accomplishment & Contributions • Coach & Mentor • Consult w/ & Keep People Informed About Decisions that Affect Them

  12. Transformation - Oriented • Model Behavior that is Desired • Encourage Different Perspectives • Encourage & Facilitate Learning • Foresee the Possibilities • Take Risks, Experiement • Develop a Critical Mass for Change

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