Leadership

2.  Traditional Leadership= narrowly concerned
with top down leadership.
 Innovative Leadership= type of leadership
that is not associated with top down direction
of subordinates.

3.  Differentiate themselves from their peers
 Stand out from their peers
 Lead by example
 Persuade followers directly and explicitly

4.  Do better or do Different
 Promote new directions
 Deliver existing services efficiently and create
new ones.
 Strive to achieve at the highest level.
 Ideas and charisma

5.  Traditional leadership theory is
disempowering.
 Managerial Empowerment = let employees
make decisions in the execution tasks.
 Leadership Empowerment = asks employees
at all levels to display leadership.
 Everyone can lead

6.  Leadership = doing things different, either
doing existing things better or doing
different things.
 New directions are taken on the basic of
concrete and conscious decisions.
 It is often necessary to discover new
directions through trial and error.
 The leaders are those employees who
discover new directions to pursue.
 Organizations that encourage leadership
from all the employees are more successful.

7.  Leadership is a facet of management. It is just
one of the many assets a successful manager
possess.
 To achieve this, managers must undertake
the following functions:
1. Organization
2. Planning
3. Staffing
4. Directing
5. Controlling

8.  A manager cannot just be a leader. Formal
authority is necessary.
 Must be involved.
 Must act as a role model.
 Managers do things right. Leaders do de right
thing.
 “Men are governed by emotions rather than
their intelligence”

9.  Sometimes, it is not the manager who
emerges as a leader.
 Natural leaders = conflict may arise if they
have different views.
 Manager may feel his authority is being
questioned and threatened.

10.  Groups are often more loyal to a leader than a
manager. Why?
 A leader is followed naturally whereas managers
must be obeyed.
 Leaders:
1. Take the blame when things go wrong.
2. Celebrate group achievements.
3. Give credit when it is due.
4. They are observant and sensitive people.
5. They know their team and develop mutual
confidence within it.