Leadership & Management
Chapter 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
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Leadership
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Create a vision for the
future
Design and shape
culture and values
Inspire and motivate
followers
Develop personal
qualities
Create change
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Management
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Plan
Organize
Direct
Control
Maintain stability
Improve efficiency
Providing Direction
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Leadership
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Create a compelling
vision
Create innovative
strategies to achieve
the vision
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Management
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Establish detailed
plans & schedules
Allocate resources to
accomplish plan
Alignment
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Leadership
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Communicate the
vision
Develop shared
culture and core
values that lead to
desired future state
Create sense of
teamwork to achieve
results
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Management
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Organize a structure to
accomplish plan
Separate people into
specialties & functions
Develop policies,
procedures & systems
Implement & monitor
plan
Relationships
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Leadership
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Focus on motivating
and inspiring people
Make work stimulating
and challenging
• People are pulled rather
than pushed toward
goals
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Management
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Focus on objects such
as machines & reports
Power is formal – a
written, spoken or
implied contract exists
People accept
superior/subordinate
relationship
Coercive behavior is
acceptable in
achieving results
Office Space Excerpt 1
Office Space Excerpt 2
Personal Leadership Qualities
Leader relies on skill and personal qualities:
Enthusiasm, integrity, courage, humility
Emotionally connected to others
Takes risks, initiate changes--typically
encounters 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”
Max De Pree
 Leadership
is an Art
 Leadership Begins in the Heart
 Leader as Servant
 Worker’s Bill of Rights
 Realization of Potential
Vision
 Desired
End State
 Shared
 Relevant
 Achievable
Outcomes
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Leadership
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Questions and
challenges status quo
in order to replace
outdated and
unproductive norms
Readies organization
to meet new
challenges
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Management
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Produces stability,
predictability, order &
efficiency
Organization achieves
short-term results;
meets organization’s
expectations
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
Evolution of Leadership
 Leadership
thoughts and actions have
unfolded in four eras, as discussed,
according to two dimensions:
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Leadership works on either a micro or macro
level
The environmental conditions are either
stable or chaotic
Evolution of Leadership (Cont.)
 Leadership:
How a leader thinks about
self, followers and organization
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Micro Leadership: specific situations, tasks
and individuals
Macro Leadership: fundamental ideals,
values and strategies that characterize large
groups
Figure 3-2 goes here
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
Exercise
What’s in a Word
A Word of Difference
Next Class
Leadership In Organizations
Read: Leadership & Management, Chapter 4
Summary
 Direction,
alignment, relationships,
personal qualities and outcomes are
crucial to effective leadership
 The evolution of leadership comprises four
eras, discussed in two dimensions:
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Micro or macro level
Stable or chaotic environment
Questions?
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