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Leadership and Ministry
‘Leadership’
Session 1 - Revd Chris Pemberton
Code - TH6909 - Graduate Year 2
Date - 21st February 2011
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Why should anyone be led by you?
Rob Goffee is professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School, where he teaches on the world renowned Senior Executive Programme. His research has covered entrepreneurship, business formation and growth, and managerial careers.
Gareth Jones is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and a visiting professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau and IE Business School (Instituto de Empresa) in Madrid.
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Introduction
18,000,000 articles on leadership in 0.08 secs - over 2,000 books on leadership last year
Why are leaders in short supply
structures kill it
our understanding is blinkered
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Why are we obsessed with leadership?
Plato - leadership male
Crisis of belief in the modern world that has roots in rationalism of 18th century - Voltaire
19th century - Freud and Weber
20th century - ‘Trait’ and ‘Style’ theories
Recently dominated by ‘Contingency theories’ - situations/context
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Four qualities
They selectively show their weaknesses
They rely on intuition to gauge the appropriate timing and course of their actions
They manage followers/employees with ‘tough empathy’
They reveal their differences
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1. They selectively show weaknesses
Shows who you are - if perfect at everything there is no need for help
Builds solidarity between followers and leaders
Offers valuable protection
BUT must be done carefully
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Examples Sir John Harvey Jones - ICI
Sir Martin Sorrell - WPP
Akio Morita - Sony
Greg Dyke - BBC
Ken Livingstone - GLC
Pete Goss - BT Global Challenge
Jesus - GODHEAD
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DANGER!
Some leaders can over differentiate themselves in their determination to express separateness.
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The desire for authenticity
Authentic leaders display a consistency between words and deeds
Authentic leadership is the capacity to display coherence
Authentic leadership involves ‘comfort with self’
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Question
Which personal differences could form the basis of your leadership capability. As you think this through, focus on differences that have the potential to excite others, are genuinely yours (not copies of someone else) and signify something important in your context? Think too about your personal values and vision for those you are leading.