1. Company of Heroes
Leader’s

2. Overview
Power of Self-Leadership
Leadership Styles:
Strongman
Transactor
Visionary Leader
 Super leader
Comparison of Leadership
Leadership of Today and Tomorrow

3. Unleashing the power of
Self-Leadership

4. Who is the Leader?
A person who determines
the course of a ship.

5. Traditional Vs Modern Leaders
In traditional leadership In modern
approach, leadership approach,
 Leader is a boss or hero  Leader creates self-
at center stage. leaders.
 He is a primary pillar of
strength.  He creates pillars of
strength

7. The changing World
In todays changing world, work place is beset
by changes.
Death of hierarchy
Boundary less organizations
Model companies are practicing 3 big D’s:
Downsizing
Delayering
Decentralizing

8. These changes have transformed the concept
of leadership from Boss-Rex to Super leaders.
Who is Boss-Rex?
Who is a Super Leader?

9. Key practices of Horizontal Organizations
Flattened Organizations
Key work processes
Reasonable authority
Rewarding on relevant skills
Measuring organizational performance
Regular communication
Significant information

10. Unconventional leadership of Ricardo
Semler
“Before you can lead others
Learn to lead yourself”

11. Semler’s approach towards leadership
Workers set their own hours.
Some workers set their own salaries.
There are no receptionists.
There are no office walls.
Managers are evaluated by their employees.
Employees vote on all major decisions.

12. The Strongman
Traditional Boss-Rex Leader.
Leads through commands.
Relies on position power.

14. Off With His Head !
Boss-Rex’s Leadership costs his job.
Richard Synder;
Former CEO of Simon & Schuster

15. Strongman Behaviors
Command and Direction
Assigned goals
Intimidation
Reprimand

16. 1. Command and Direction:
Commanding others.
Self proclaimed king or queen.
Commander, Director, Boss-Rex

17. 2. Assigned Goals:
Concerned with the achievement of goals.
Identifying poor subordinate performance.

18. 3. Intimidation:
Foundation for exerting influence.
Shouting on employees.
Knocking over a piece of furniture.
Coldly staring down an employee.

19. 4. Reprimand:
Punishing subordinates .
Verbal attack
Distasteful job assignment
A cut in pay
Demotion

20. Followers of the strongman
yes-men or yes-persons.
Lack of creativity and innovation.
Focus on guessing the leader.

21. The Transactor
Most common type of leadership practiced
today.
Focus on power of rewards.

22. Transactor Behaviors.
Interactive goal setting
Contingent personal reward
Contingent material reward
Contingent Reprimand

23. 1. Interactive goal setting:
Challenging but realistic goals.
A system for allocating rewards.

24. 2. Contingent personal reward:
Intangible rewards.
They include;
Praise and recognition
 Pat on the back

25. 3. Contingent material reward:
Monetary rewards are more powerful.
They include:
Pay raises
Promotion opportunities
Bonuses

26. 4. Contingent Reprimand:
Guidelines to reprimand in effective manner:
Praise in public, punish in private.
Reprimand following the behavior.
Focus on undesirable behavior, not the person.
Make sure the desired behavior is made clear.

27. Followers of the transactor
Followers are sensitive to rewards.
They are skilled calculators.
No concern for continuous improvement.
“What is in it for me?”

28. The Visionary Hero
“Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
than to …live in the great twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.’’
Theodore Roosevelt

29. Follow ME !!!
Visionary heroes are basically inspiring.
They are effective in two situations:
Time of crises.
Major organizational changes.

30. Visionary Hero’s Behavior
Communication of leader’s vision
Emphasis of the leader’s values
Exhortation
Inspirational persuasion

31. 1. Communication of the leader vision:
Create and communicate vision
Purposeful Vision
Connection to historical points or current issues

32. 2.Emphasis of the leader values:
What are values?
How leader’s values help the followers?
“Ethical values are more important than monetary
values.”

33. 3.Exhortation and Inspirational Persuasion:
Speech is a vehicle.
Exhortation exemplifies the process.
Combine the words to create energy and
emotions.

34. Followers of Visionary Heroes
Enthusiastic.
Dependent on leaders.
Willing to go above and beyond the call of
duty.

35. First 3 Leadership Styles
Control Others
Give them Direction
On the Basis of high knowledge

36. The Super Leader
Dwight Eisenhower said.
’’More you develop people now, the greater will
be your confidence in them when you thrust
bigger’’

37. Who is Super Leader?
Leading others to lead themselves
Creating the Company of Heroes

38. Super Leader Behavior
Mastering and Modeling Self-leadership
Facilitating the transition of Self-leadership
Fostering teamwork
Facilitating the Self-leadership culture

39. Mastering and Modeling Self- leadership
 What is self-leadership?
 Strategies to master self-leaders
1. Motivation
2. Constructive thinking
3. Enjoyment
 Demonstrate Model

40. Mastering and Modeling in influence
followers in underlying aspects:
 Personal Responsibility
 Initiative Taking
 Self Motivation
 Continuous Improvement

41. Facilitating the Transition of Followers to
Self-Leadership
 Delegate tasks
 Ignore some honest mistakes
 Challenging goals
 Training opportunities
 Feedback opportunity

42. Fostering Teamwork
Primary sources of fostering teamwork
Capability
Knowledge
Experience

43. Facilitating a Self-Leadership Culture
What is Culture?

44. Values
Norms
Beliefs

45. Super Leaders develop the followers:
 Independent and Interdependent
 Sense of ownership
 Pride in their work
 Takes reasonable risk
 Continuous improvement

46. Developed followers of the Super leaders
become:
Self leaders
Effective
Empowered
Confident

47. Leadership Comparison
Two Situations
Compliance vs. Commitment
Degree of Urgency
(high or low)

48. Compliance alone, transactor or strong man
Compliance with urgency, strong man
Commitment alone, visionary or superleader
Commitment with urgency, visionary

49. Leadership of Past
One individual held the central position

50. Leadership of today and Tomorrow
Involvement of all the human resources

51. Now a days Organization needs
 Knowledge
 Creativity
 Experience
 Wisdom
All these things comes from Super leaders

52. Consequences of leadership types
 Strongman: Develop Dependent Followers
 Transactor: Develop Dependent Followers
 Visionary Hero: Develop Dependent Followers
 Super leader: Develop Independent Followers