The document compares leadership to chemical reactions in a vessel. It suggests that effective leaders, like catalysts in chemical reactions, help employees find better paths to be productive with less energy. It also notes that great leaders understand not to stress employees, just as applying too much pressure to some reactants can lead to uncontrolled products. The metaphor of chemical reactions in a vessel provides new insights into understanding leadership.

1. Leadership in the Reaction Vessel Ali Anani, PhD

2. We need a new creative metaphor for leadership

3. That was the challenge to me by Eng. Yusuf Tokdemir

4. The sweet challenge inspired the comparison

5. How chemicals react and how leaders react

6. yield products Few collisions

7. Only a small number of staff achieve the desired productivity

8. Is it a purely random thing that humans and chemicals show similar behaviors?

9. Understanding why chemical reactions have low actual productivity

10. Will help us why employees interactions are of low productivity and better understand role of leaders

11. Why reactants show less productivity than the theoritical one?

12. Molecules have to have the right orientation to be productive

13. Conflicting cultures mean possibility of disorientation

14. Likewise; employees must have a grand goal to orient themselves to

15. It is not enough that molecules orient right; it is also collisions must produce enough energy to produce

16. Same for employees They need to collide with enough energy

17. Employees must be engaged, happy and enthusiast to surmount the energy barrier to production

18. Impure reactants lead to impure products

19. Leaders know how to employ staff who are "pure" to get pure results

20. Playing with systemic errors makes things worse

21. Realizing nature of systemic performance variations shouldn't be focal roles for leaders

22. Great leaders know when not to poke their noses and let systems alone

23. Catalysts provide reactants with less energy-activation paths

24. So are great leaders They find better paths to do work

25. Applying pressure affects only some gaseous reactants

26. Stressed molecular reactants might lead to uncontrollable products

27. Great leaders know that stressing employees shall be counterproductive

28. The use of chemical reactions as a metaphor for leadership brings new insights