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Leadership

What is Leadership?
Conventional Leadership

Leadership Re-invented

* Leaders in business lead AND manage.
* There is no sharp disctinction between leadership and management.
* They occupy positions of authority.
* Leadership is a formal role.
* They make strategic decisions.
* They are good at managing people.
* They have emotional intelligence.
* They sell the tickets for a new journey AND take the group to the destination.



* Leadership = promoting new directions.
* Management = getting things done.
* All employees can promote new directions.
* Leadership can be shown bottom-up or sideways to people who don't report to you.
* Leadership has nothing to do with managing people - that's management.
* Leaders don't make decisions. The ACT of leadership is one of pure informal influence.
* Leaders sell the tickets for the journey, Managers drive the bus to the destination.

The Changing Meaning of Leadership

* Leadership has always been based on power. For the conventional view, this means the power of personality to dominate a group.
* But in our knowledge driven world, business is a war of ideas where the power to innovate and promote new products is the new basis of leadership.
* Anyone with critical knowledge that could alter business direction can show leadership. This is thought leadership.
* It can be shown by front line employees who don't manage anyone.
* It can be bottom-up as well as top-down. It can even come from outside. It can be shown between organizations too as in market leadership.
* Only management is a formal role.
* Leadership re-invented is an occasional ACT, like creativity, not a role or position.
* Those at the top sometimes lead, sometimes just manage. Other times they operate as venture capitalists investing in the best ideas (leadership) emerging from below.
* Leadership is based on youthful...