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Leadership
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A Leadership Story:
• A group of workers and their leaders are set a task of clearing a road through a dense jungle on a remote island to get to the coast where an estuary provides a perfect site for a port. • The leaders organise the labour into efficient units and monitor the distribution and use of capital assets – progress is excellent. The leaders continue to monitor and evaluate progress, making adjustments along the way to ensure the progress is maintained and efficiency increased wherever possible. • Then, one day amidst all the hustle and bustle and activity, one person climbs up a nearby tree. The person surveys the scene from the top of the tree.
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A Leadership Story:
• And shouts down to the assembled group below… • “Wrong Way!”
• (Story adapted from Stephen Covey (2004) “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” Simon & Schuster).
• “Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things”
(Warren Bennis and Peter Drucker)
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Leadership
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Types of Leadership Style
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Types of Leadership Style
• Autocratic:
– Leader makes decisions without reference to anyone else – High degree of dependency on the leader – Can create de-motivation and alienation of staff – May be valuable in some types of business where decisions need to be made quickly and decisively
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Types of Leadership Style
• Democratic: • Encourages decision making from different perspectives – leadership may be emphasised throughout the organisation
– Consultative: process of consultation before decisions are taken – Persuasive: Leader takes decision and seeks to persuade others that the decision is correct...
