Martin Luther king Jr.
Patient Theory
- In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing yourself.
- A leader has to be concerned with semantics.
- You must use time creatively .
- Turn the other cheek.
Leadership Style
Here, in Martin’s words, are seven key points to remember:
1- A wise leader plans before taking action.
2- Goals and a detailed plan facilitate the
process of change.
3- Plans must be set in place to counteract
the opposition.
4-
A detailed plan is needed to channel the masses and keep them headed in the
same direction.
5-
Goals unify people .
6-
Goals motivate people.
7- Goals stimulate action.
Abraham Lincoln
Patient Theory
- Don’t surrender the game leaving any available card unplayed.
- Avoid major conflict in form of quarrels and arguments. You simply don’t have time for it.
- When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don’t send it.
Leadership Style
- My policy is no policy.
- Avoid issuing orders and instead- request, imply, make suggestion.
- Explain your self in writing and offer advice on how to solve problems.
- Take public opinion baths.
- when you are extinguish hope, create desperation.
- Invest time and money in better understanding ins and outs of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
Patient Theory
- Patient means self-suffering.
- Hate kill, Love heal.
- Love never claims, it ever gives. love ever suffers, never resents, never revenges itself.
- See your self in your enemy’s body.
Leadership Style
- Non violence is not cowardice.
- What i want to see tomorrow is the change
- No God higher than truth.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth.
How to solve problems
- The win/Lose Style
- The Lose/Yield Style
- The Lose/Leave Style
- The Compromise Style
- The Win/Win Style
- The Context Style.
What is leadership?
- Leading people
- Influencing people
- Commanding people
- Guiding people
Types of Leaders
- Leader by the position achieved
- Leader by personality, charisma
- Leader by moral example
- Leader by power held
- Intellectual leader
- Leader because of ability to accomplish things
Managers vs. Leaders
Managers
- Focus on things
- Do things right
- Plan
- Organize
- Direct
- Control
- Follows the rules
Leaders
- Focus on people
- Do the right things
- Inspire
- Influence
- Motivate
- Build
- Shape entities
Common Activities
- Planning
- Organizing
- Directing
- Controlling
Planning
Manager
- Planning
- Budgeting
- Sets targets
- Establishes detailed steps
- Allocates resources
Leader
- Devises strategy
- Sets direction
- Creates vision
Organizing
Manager
- Creates structure
- Job descriptions
- Staffing
- Hierarchy
- Delegates
- Training
Leader
- Gets people on board for strategy
- Communication
- Networks
Directing Work
Manager
- Solves problems
- Negotiates
- Brings to consensus
Leader
- Empowers people
- Cheerleader
Controlling
Manager
- Implements control systems
- Performance measures
- Identifies variances
- Fixes variances
Leader
- Motivate
- Inspire
- Gives sense of accomplishment
Leadership Traits
Leadership Styles
New Leaders Take Note
New Leader Traps
Seven Basic Principles
Core Tasks
Create Momentum
Master Technologies
Enabling Technologies
Manage Oneself
Ten Guidelines (The original source is Nine)
Intelligence
- More intelligent than non-leaders
- Scholarship
- Knowledge
- Being able to get things done
Physical
- Doesn’t see to be correlated
- Verbal facility
- Honesty
- Initiative
- Aggressive
- Self-confident
- Ambitious
- Originality
- Sociability
- Adaptability
Leadership Styles
Delegating
- Low relationship/ low task
- Responsibility
- Willing employees
Participating
- High relationship/ low task
- Facilitate decisions
- Able but unwilling
- High task/high relationship
- Explain decisions
- Willing but unable
Telling
- High Task/Low relationship
- Provide instruction
- Closely supervise
General
Advice
- Take advantage of the transition period
- Get advice and counsel
- Show empathy to predecessor
- Learn leadership
- Need knowledge quickly
- Establish new relationships
- Expectations
- Personal equilibrium
New Leader Traps
- Not learning quickly
- Isolation
- Know-it-all
- Keeping existing team
- Taking on too much
- Captured by wrong people
- Successor syndrome
Seven Basic Principles
- Have two to three years to make measurable financial and cultural progress
- Come in knowing current strategy, goals, and challenges. Form hypothesis on operating priorities
- Balance intense focus on priorities with flexibility on implementation….
- Decide about new organization architecture
- Build personal credibility and momentum
- Earn right to transform entity
- Remember there is no “one” way to manage a transition
Core Tasks
- Create Momentum
- Master technologies of learning, visioning, and coalition building
- Manage oneself
Create Momentum
- Learn and know about company
- Securing early win
- First set short term goals
- When achieved make a big deal
- Should fit long term strategy
- Foundation for change
- Vision of how the organization will look
- Build political base to support change
- Modify culture to fit vision
- Build credibility
- Accessible but not too familiar
- Focused but flexible
- Active
- Can make tough calls but humane
Master Technologies
- Learn from internal and external sources
- Visioning - develop strategy
- Push vs. pull tools
- What values does the strategy embrace?
- What behaviors are needed?
- Communicate the vision
- Simple text - Best channels
- Clear meaning - Do it yourself!
Enabling Technologies
- Coalition building
- Don’t ignore politics
- Technical change not enough
- Political management isn’t same as being political
- Prevent blocking coalitions
- Build political capita
Manage Oneself
- Be self-aware
- Define your leadership style
- Get advice and counsel
- Advice is from expert to leader
- Counsel is insight
- Types of help
- Political
- Personal
- Advisor traits
- Trustworthy
- Enhance your status
Ten Guidelines (The original source is Nine)
1- Be optimistic
2- Be genuinely interested in others
3- Call people by name
4- Help others
5- Create a win-win situation
6- think before you act
7- Listen to others
8- Smile and develop a sense of humor
9- Be positive
10- Be humble ( Addition)
How Far Can You Go?
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