Lecture 5a Post On Leadership

(1)Leadership

Power base -- Dynasty , relationships , personal example , charisma

Inspire - refocus organization on goals e.g. Churchill "We'll fight them on the beaches"

(2) Contingency - right style for right situation

(3) Power
incumbent -- successful plan , resolution of honour , promotion to "highest level of incompetency" - (don't we just know it!!)

George Bernard Shaw - progress built on the unreasonable guy

Issues: Management v Leadership

My own perception is that managers usually use their preferred style rather than a conscious thought process as to how best to govern.
This is OK when things are going well. When things get tough however they become more Authoritarian.

I was looking for that John P Kotter (from Harvard) slide regarding the difference between Management v Leadership but didn't find that in the power points.