Leadership & Management :Leadership & Management Discussion for Lesson 3: From Management to Leadership


Lesson 3Reading Objectives :Lesson 3Reading Objectives 1. The student will comprehend the fundamental differences between management and leadership.   2. The student will comprehend the crucial importance of providing direction, alignment, relationships, personal qualities, and outcomes.   3. The student will comprehend the evolution of leadership through four eras to the facilitating leadership required today.


Lesson 3Discussion Objectives :Lesson 3Discussion Objectives 1. The student will comprehend the crucial importance of providing direction, alignment, relationships, personal qualities, and outcomes.   2. The student will comprehend the evolution of leadership through four eras to the facilitating leadership required today.


Providing Direction :Providing Direction Leadership Create a compelling vision Create farsighted strategies to achieve the vision


Alignment :Alignment Leadership Communicate the vision Develop shared culture and core values that lead to desired future state Create sense of teamwork to achieve results


Relationships :Relationships Leadership Focus on motivating and inspiring people Make work stimulating and challenging People are pulled rather than pushed toward goals


Personal Leadership Qualities :Personal Leadership Qualities Leader relies on skill and personal qualities: Enthusiasm, integrity, courage, humility Emotionally connected to others Takes risks, initiate changes--typically encounters resistance. “Leadership is much more of an art, a belief, a condition of heart, than a set of things to do.” Max De Pree “Leadership Is An Art”


Outcomes :Outcomes Leadership Questions and challenges status quo in order to replace outdated and unproductive norms Readies organization to meet new challenges


Evolution of Leadership :Evolution of Leadership Leadership: how a leader thinks about self, followers, and organizations. Micro leadership: specific situations, tasks, individuals Macro leadership: fundamental ideals, values, strategies that characterize large groups


Evolution of Leadership :Evolution of Leadership Stable versus chaotic dimensions refers to whether elements in the environment are dynamic Stable—environment remains same over months and years Chaotic—environmental elements shift abruptly


Leadership Framework :Leadership Framework Era 1, Macro Leadership in a Stable World Era 2, Micro Leadership in a Stable World Era 3, Micro Leadership in a Chaotic World Era 4, Macro Leadership in a Chaotic World


Exercise :Exercise What’s in a Word A Word of Difference


Next Class :Next Class Leadership In Organizations Read: Leadership & Management, Chapter 4 Written Assignment 1 is due at the start of class on the day of Lesson 5


Summary :Summary Direction, alignment, relationships, personal qualities and outcomes are crucial to effective leadership The evolution of leadership comprises four eras, discussed in two dimensions: Micro or macro level Stable or chaotic environment