Power within Leadership

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Leadership and Power

As a supervisor a completely agree with this article, “Career Coach; Good leaders share leadership and power” by Joyce E. A. Russell. By no means am I a great leader but I strive to be one. I learn ever day from my staff and I hope they learn something me from time to time.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP?

Organizational leadership is a dual focused management approach that works towards what is best for individuals and what is best for a group as a whole simultaneously. It is also an attitude and a work ethic that empowers an individual in any role to lead from the top, middle, or bottom of an organization. While discussing every component of organizational leadership would be well beyond the scope of this document, five key components of organizational leadership are identified below.

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Role Theory

Some business or organizations are as successful as the leaders the business has to motivate and lead others. Role theory as it relates to organizational leadership is how the leaders and followers in a business-usually management and employees-define their own roles, define the roles of others, how people act in their roles and how people expect people to act in their roles within the organization.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Role of an Organizational Leader

This article speaks about three leadership tasks: vision, strategy and people.
Vision – This includes determining the next product or feature, finding new markets for the product, adoption of new technology etc.
Strategy – Plans or strategies demonstrate the job knowledge or skills of a leader.
People – How to make people accomplish the strategy and hence the goal.

Definition of Organizational Leadership

Organizational leadership is about management. Leadership by itself is transformative, it is about shifting priorities in workers and creating followers through the articulation of vision. However, when leadership is embedded within an organization, the definition changes to leadership within, rather than above, the organization and, therefore, becomes management or even better, supervision.