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What makes for a great leader?
Is it something to do with inward
characteristics?
Is it more about outward presence?
Is it about the ability to create a
vision and get others to commit to it?
The answer is all of the above.
By accepting the challenge to lead,
you come to realize that
The only limits are those you place on yourself.
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The leader innovates whereas
the manager administers
The leader inspires trust
whereas the manager relies on
control
The leader asks "what" and
"why," whereas the manager
asks "how" and "when.
The Role of A Leader
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Managers Leaders
Managers have employees.
Managers react to change
Managers have good ideas.
Managers communicate.
Managers direct groups
Managers try to be heroes
Managers take credit.
Managers are focused.
Managers exercise
power over people.
Leaders win followers.
Leaders create change.
Leaders implement them.
Leaders persuade.
Leaders create teams.
Leaders make heroes of everyone
around them
Leaders take responsibility.
Leaders create shared focus.
Leaders develop power with people.
Although the two roles may be similar,
The best managers are also leaders
Leaders Versus Managers
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The Learning Organization
What is a Learning
Organization?
The heart of leadership is learning
leadership and teaching it to others
to become leaders.
Peter Senge, “The Fifth Discipline,”
a picture of an organization
where all employees
are committed to lifelong learning
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1. Personal Mastery
Own development,
Own journey for learning,
Ability to work with the forces around us.
we have a vision of where we want to go,
recognize the realities of where we are right now,
making a commitment to work toward that vision.
The Fifth Disciplines
Vision Learn Master
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The Fifth Disciplines
2. Mental Models
The steps of assumption
Our beliefs are the truth.
The truth is obvious.
Our beliefs are based on real data.
The data we select are the real data.
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3. Shared Vision
Leaders cannot command commitment;
they can only inspire it.
Leadership is a dialogue, not a
monologue.
Shared vision is a vehicle for building a
sense of commitment in a group,
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5. System Thinking
Systems thinking are a framework based on the belief that the
component parts of a system can best be understood in the
context of relationships with each other & with other systems,
rather than in isolation
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