why should anyone be led by you? professor gareth jones
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Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?
Professor Gareth Jones
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Leading v Managing
Leadership is a non – hierarchical concept
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Effective leadership
excites people to
exceptional performance
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Behaviour in organisations
• Individual
• Team
• Organisation
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The Search for Authentic Leadership
• 47 x 47 x 47• 60 x 50 x 17
• Loss of reality
• Loss of meaning
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Loss of trust
The Search for Authentic Leadership
Loss of community
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Leadership is in short supply
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Structures and cultures kill leadership
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The Leadership Deficit
• We want it – but we kill it
• We research it – but we don’t understand it
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Asking the wrong questions….
• High achiever• High energy levels• Longer time span• Goal directed• Politically active• Loners• Field independent
Who Makes It To The Top?
• First child or first son
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Asking the wrong questions…
What do those at the top think?
• Capacity to develop strategy• Able to work with a variety of people• Early responsibility for important tasks• Strong achievement goals• Early leadership experience• Experience of several business functions• Integrity, trust, concern for people
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What do followers want?
A better question might be……
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Followers want community
Followers want significance
Followers want excitement
Followers want authenticity
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Ask yourself
Are you exciting?
Are you authentic?
Who decides?
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Classic leadership research
• Trait
• Style
• Contingency
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Emphasis on leaders not leadership
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How we understand leadership
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Leadership is contextual
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Leadership is relational
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Leadership is non-hierarchical
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What authentic leaders do
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Sense situations….and take symbolic action
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Read – and rewrite – the context
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Get close but keep your distance
Identify
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Show your difference
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Show your difference
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Show your difference
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Display significant, real and perceived differences…
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…related to context
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Know and show yourself…enough
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Reveal weakness – focus dissatisfaction
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Take personal risks because you care
When you really care you reveal your weaknesses.
Your weaknesses should be real, humanising, and may show followers how they can help.
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Effective leaders use their emotions to liberate the energy of others
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Descartes was wrong – the fully rational human being is emotional
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Communicate…..
Differences Weaknesses Vision Values
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Tell a story
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Choose your channel
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Be a conductor
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Conform enoughConnect – gain traction – change
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Become an authentic chameleon
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Retain your authenticity by…
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Consistency between words and deeds
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A common thread in your role performance
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Comfort with origins
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Comfort with origins
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BE YOURSELF
MORE
WITH SKILL
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Inspirational Tensions
• Show strength but reveal weakness
• Be yourself but conform enough
• Get close but keep your distance
• Be authentic but be prepared to be a role player
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The price and prize of leadership
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What authentic leaders do Sense situations Read - and rewrite – the context Identify – get close but keep your distance Reveal difference - know and show yourself enough Reveal weakness Communicate with care Conform enough Practice what you preach Keep a common thread Be comfortable with origins
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What you can do now
Crucibles of experience Sources of replenishment Gain perspective Get feedback Don’t try to be perfect Being good v being great Customize your development Are you in the right place to express your
authentic self?
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Balancing authenticity and skill
High
High
Low
Low
Authenticity
Skill
Maverick Effective Leader
Unaware and clumsy
Phoney
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Leading in a downturn
Don’t claim to know the future – but articulate a vision/values (integrity and optimism)
Understand the politics – but remain above them Focus on task (speed) – but build cohesion (keep
talking and listening) Identify with the troops – but be prepared to be apart Remain steadfast – but adapt, be nimble Admit mistakes – and say sorry where necessary