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Leadership OF MBA @ BEC-DOMS
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Leadership
Dr. Joe O’Mahoney 2006
1. What is Leadership?
2. Constructing Leadership
3. Limits of Leadership
4. Leadership and Morality
The Agenda
What is Leadership?
What is Leadership?
• Peter Drucker : "The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers."
• John C Maxwell : "leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less."
• John W. Gardner :Leadership is the process of persuasion and example by which an individual (or leadership team) induces a group to take action that is in accord with the leader’s purpose, or the shared purposes of all.”
• Imposing your will upon others
Popular view of Leadership
• Key people:– Drucker– Mintzberg
• Mostly studied as:– A necessary thing– A good thing– Separate from management– Something that can be learned
• Leaders as heroes– Born– Exceptional– Loved
History of Leadership Theories
Classical Origins of the Hero
• Classical hero– Stoic– Rational– Male
• Compared to….– Females (hysterical)– Barbarians (emotional)
• Massive influence– Victorian Britain– Military heroes
The Leader as Hero
• Machiavelli “The Prince”– Classical Heroes (stoic, unemotional, male)– Renaissance Prince’s– The Great Man view of history
• Nietzsche's Superman– Will to Power– Slave / Master– Hated Christian morality
• Traits– Eg.– What about Martin Luther, Ghandi etc…– What about the context? (Stogdill, 1948)– Roots in aristocratic view of the world
Contingency Leadership
• Fiedler, Vroom, Hersey..– No best way to manage– Depends on leader and environment– Right person in the right place
• Contingent traits– Myers Briggs– Entrepreneurial / Innovative– Hierarchical / Authoritarian– Visionary / Charismatic
• But– People Change– Low Predictability– Based on positivism: weak ontology
An example contingency - trait approach (from Boje)
(De)constructing Leadership
Constructing Leadership
• Leadership as a 20th century phenomenon– No books on leadership before 1900– Need to be led– The military metaphor: 3– Fits with the fetish of change (Grey)– e.g. women as leaders
• Leadership as story-telling– How I changed the world– The role of PR– Heroes to Villains (Enron)– The role of the Press
• Leadership as performance– Richard Branson
The Limits of Leadership
• Proving leadership– Cause and effect?– Could have done better?
• Limits on leadership– Resources– Shareholders– Law– Employees
Morality and Leadership
• What makes a good leader?– Vision– Securing followers– Achieving aims– Charisma
• Power– All leadership rests on power– Usually direct– Rarely charismatic
Questions?