Exhibiting current and potential leadership provides an excellent path to career growth. You can exert leadership as both a formal and informal leader. Your leadership may be a positive or a negative influence on the work team or organization. You may yearn to lead. You may resist leadership with all your might. Whatever you choose, leadership will affect your career growth.
Over the next few weeks we will examine various traits of leadership. Our study will include reviewing concepts presented by Bill George, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Paul Thompson, Gene Dalton, and other experts on leadership. We will explore the differences between leadership and management that will help you comprehend the differences between Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Operating Officers (COOs).
In addition, we will delve into the roles of leadership including establishing the vision for the organization, adopting and adapting the corporate culture, formulating and implementing strategy, evaluating and improving performance. Once again, we will refer to prominent studies and publications for you to study to better understand these roles.
Finally, we will discuss the models and tools leaders use to enhance and improve the organizations and teams they lead. Tools will include:
- Bill George’s True North or Model for Authentic Leadership
- Clawson’s Level Three Leadership
- Six Steps to Effective Leadership
- Agle’s Stakeholder Salience model
- Kotter’s Model for Leading Change
- Principle Centered Leadership
- Jim Collins theories on Built to Last, Good to Great, and How the Great Have Fallen
- RACI, SWOT, and Structure Analysis
- McKenzie’s Seven S Model
- Porter’s Five Forces
- Principle Based Negotiation
These concept will enhance your career, earn the biggest raises, and obtain the best promotions. I recognize that they will not apply to all of you at this time. They may in the future. For some of you they may help you understand management better, while you never pursue a career in management or leadership.
In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy our exploration of management and leadership.
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