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Contexts of Leadership Keyword Challenge Style/Skill
Command-and-Control
Organization
do it and do it now
top-down authority
Difficult to adapt to
organizational context.
The leader sometimes
tends to become
increasingly arrogant,
isolated & even
alienated from the
constituent
Accustomed to wielding
Great Power.
Marches in lock step
Authority devolves from
the top down
Often appears as
vestiges of the old
military-industrial
complex
Partnership of Peers Everyone is equal in a
partnership
Collegial approach
Requires great skill &
tact.
How to communicate
with the others whenmeet changing.
Should rally the faculty
and other constituent
around a plan for
prominence.
Entailed uniting the
partners around a
common vission of
helping build aninnovative firm.
Anti-autocratic
approach.
Involving knowledge
worker.
It has advantages when
confronted by
challenges that require
a collecial approach.
Entrepreneurial Organizations Alone
The ultimate decision
makers
Profit
Knitting the investors,
advisors, customers,
vendors, and others,
with vision.
Need to restrain their
Work with the right
partners
They're allowed to
make decisions quickly
and execute it rapidly.
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natural instinct to take
charge & make
decisions if collegial
leadership.
Sharing vision with
others.
They have diligence
whom that they're work
with and find the effort
that's worth.
Don't wait too long to
make money.
Generate profit as soon
as reasonably possible.
The Academic World Academic
Independent-minded
Professor's usually
decide what research to
pursue & how to teach
their course(s).
If there is a need for
significant change.
Careful to be
accomplish anything.
Generally believe they
have no boss.
Learns on the job that
can be applied in a
number of othercontexts.
Contexts of Leadership Keyword Challenge Style/Skill
Business Round-Tables and
Other Peer Groups
Executives
Designed to be the
chair. Round-tables, boards
associations,
government
commisions.
Someone else will take
charge.
Tactfully leadcontending egos to
agreement on agenda
items.
Have been through a trial by
fire that can temper & deepen
the leadership skill.
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Nonprofits A discipline
Grant-making
foundations, think
thanks, art
organizations, and
charities.
Have to balance what
they spend with what
they take in.
Need to work
cooperatively with a
board of governors to
have the definite ideas
for well-endowed
organizations.
Dependent on
volunteers who don't
view themselves as
employees & often acts
like free agents.
Volunteers can
sometimes have a lot
opinion that is not
based on facts.
Spend much of their time
fundraising.
The Military An order is an order
Autocracy.
Political and collegial
skill.
Must set broad strategy
goals using the best
judgments.
Lives are at stake.
Need to be successfulin promotion & dealing
with a large numbers of
superior.
Order is an order.
Tactical decision
making has been
pushed down the
hierarchy to combat
leaders who must
respond to moment-to-moment change on
battlefield.
Smooth transition to
positions of leadership.
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Government Everyone is your boss
Bureucracy.
Public visibility.
Can be called to
account in public forum
when the things go
wrong.
Scrutinized by public,
media. Etc
Everyone is your boss.
Have been hired, or
elected.
Carry the will of the
people.
Contexts of Leadership Keyword Challenge Style/Skill
The Operating Room Complete Autocracy Human lives Non questional order.
Purest forms of a
command-and-controlcontext.
Organizations in Crisis Crisis
Becoming a leader in
very concise
Quick Decision
Has to know when to
relax the grip on the
reins and allow
authority to flow down
the hierarchy.
Rapid Execution.
The leader has to step forward
and personally take charge.
No time for collegiality and
delegation.
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