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Chapter 1
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Leadership Is Everyone’s Business
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The goals of this book are to:
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 Help you become more effective in
leadership situations by helping you better
understand the complex challenges of
leadership
 Serve as a guide for you to interpret
leadership theory and research
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The goals of this book are to:
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 Integrate summaries of leadership with
advice on how you can become a better
leader
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Defining Leadership
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 Leadership is “the process of influencing
an organized group toward accomplishing
its goals.” (Roach and Behling)
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What does leadership involve?
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 Research to determine when, where, and
how to accomplish something.
 Skills of understanding leadership
situations and influencing others to
accomplish group goals.
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What does leadership involve?
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 Rational, explicit, rule-based methods of
assessing situations and determining
actions.
 Emotions that will inspire action.
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Leadership and management are closely
related but distinguishable functions
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Leadership
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Leadership and Management
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 Distinctions between managers and leaders
(Bennis, 1989):
Managers administer; leaders innovate.
Managers maintain; leaders develop.
Managers control, leaders inspire.
Managers imitate; leaders originate
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Leadership and Management
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 Distinctions between managers and leaders
(Bennis, 1989):
Managers have a short-term view, leaders, a
long-term view.
Managers ask how and when; leaders ask what
and why.
Managers accept the status quo; leaders
challenge it.
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Leadership
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 The idea of “one-man leadership” is a
contradiction in terms -- leadership
and followership are indeed related.
There is no simple line dividing them;
they merge.
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Myths That Hinder Leadership
Development
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 Good Leadership Is All Common Sense
 Leaders Are Born, Not Made
 The Only School You Learn Leadership
from is the School of Hard Knocks
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Focusing on Three Leaders
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 Colin Powell - former chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officer
in the U.S. armed forces, and the first
African American ever to hold the position.
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Focusing on Three Leaders
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 Madeleine Albright - U.S. Secretary of
state, the highest-ranking woman official in
the nation’s history.
 Konosuke Matsushita - founded Matsushita
Electric, a company with revenue of nearly
$50 billion.
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