Leadership & Management Reading for Lesson 3: From Management to Leadership

Lesson 3 Reading Objectives 1. The student will comprehend the fundamental differences between management and leadership.   2. The student will comprehend the crucial importance of providing direction, alignment, relationships, personal qualities, and outcomes. 3. The student will comprehend the evolution of leadership through four eras to the facilitating leadership required today.

Lesson 3 Discussion Objectives 1. The student will comprehend the crucial importance of providing direction, alignment, relationships, personal qualities, and outcomes.   2. The student will comprehend the evolution of leadership through four eras to the facilitating leadership required today.

FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES Leadership Create a vision for the future Design and shape culture and values Inspire and motivate followers Develop personal qualities Create change Management Plan Organize Direct Control Maintain stability Improve efficiency

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Providing Direction Leadership Management Create a compelling vision Create farsighted strategies to achieve the vision Management Establish detailed plans and schedules Allocate resources to accomplish plan

Alignment Leadership Management Communicate the vision Develop shared culture and core values that lead to desired future state Create sense of teamwork to achieve results Management Organize a structure to accomplish plan Separate people into specialties and functions Develop policies, procedures and systems Implement and monitor plan

Relationships Leadership Management Focus is on motivating and inspiring people Work is made stimulating and challenging People are pulled rather than pushed toward goals Management Focus is on objects, such as machines and reports Power is formal--a written, spoken, or implied contract exists People accept superior or subordinate role Coercive behavior is acceptable in achieving results

Personal Leadership Qualities Leadership relies on skill and personal qualities: enthusiasm, integrity, courage and humility Leadership means being emotionally connected to others, whereas management encourages emotional distance Leaders take risks, initiate changes, which typically encounter resistance. “Leadership is much more of an art, a belief, a condition of heart, than a set of things to do.” Max De Pree “Leadership Is An Art”

Outcomes Leadership Management Questions and challenges status quo in order to replace outdated and unproductive norms Readies organization to meet new challenges Management Produces stability, predictability, order and efficiency Organization achieves short-term results—meets organization’s expectations

Evolution of Leadership Leadership thoughts and actions have unfolded in four eras, as discussed according to two dimensions: Leadership works on either a micro or a macro level The environmental conditions are either stable or chaotic

Evolution of Leadership Leadership: how a leader thinks about self, followers, and organizations. Micro leadership: specific situations, tasks, individuals Macro leadership: fundamental ideals, values, strategies that characterize large groups

Evolution of Leadership Stable versus chaotic dimensions refers to whether elements in the environment are dynamic Stable—environment remains same over months and years Chaotic—environmental elements shift abruptly

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Leadership Framework Era 1, Macro Leadership in a Stable World Era 2, Micro Leadership in a Stable World Era 3, Micro Leadership in a Chaotic World Era 4, Macro Leadership in a Chaotic World