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Chapter 1
Leadership Is Everyone’s Business
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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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The goals of this book are to:
Integrate summaries of leadership with advice on how you can become a better leader
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Defining Leadership
Leadership is “the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals.” (Roach and Behling)
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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.
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What does leadership involve?
Rational, explicit, rule-based methods of assessing situations and determining actions.
Emotions that will inspire action.
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Leadership and management are closely related but distinguishable
functions
LeadershipManagement
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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
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Leadership and Management
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Focusing on Three Leaders
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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