SUPER LEADERSHIP

- Dr. V. THANIKACHALAM (vthani2025@yahoo.in)

LAO TZU Said

A leader is best when faculty barely know s/he exists … when his/her work is done, his/ her aim is fulfilled.They will say we did it ourselves.

Who is a transformational leader?

Transformational Leader

• One who has the vision and dynamic personal attraction to generate total organizational change.

The Leader is One

• Who has either power, authority or charisma enough to command others.

The Most Appropriate Image of the Organizational Leader of Today

• Is the one who can lead others to lead themselves.

True Leadership

• True leadership comes mainly from within a person, not from outside.

• At the best, external leadership can provide a spark and support the flame of the powerful

self-leadership that dwells within each person.

• At the worst, it disrupts this internal process, damaging the faculty and the constituencies s/he services.

True Leadership…

• The ability to maximize the contributions of faculty by helping them to effectively guide their own destinies, rather than the ability to blend the will of others to the leaders.

A New Measure of Leadership Strength

Who is a super leader?

• Super leaders marshal the strength of many, for their strength does not lie solely in their own abilities, but in the vast, multiple talents of those that surround them.

• Concern bringing out the best, but mainly in others, not just in the leader.

Super Leaders

• Do not carry the weight of the world alone but share this burden with others.

• Others become stronger and stronger through the process of really contributing.

Super Leaders…

• Attributes much of its success to an emphasis on employee initiative and autonomy rather than close supervision.

• His management philosophy is to simply get the right people in the right places and to encourage them to use their own initiatives to accomplish the task at hand.

Sam Walton, Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stated

• Can be used successfully by executives in the pursuit of excellence.

Super Leadership Strategies

• Vast, often hidden, capability within executives and their subordinates.

Optimistic Philosophy

• Excessive external controls can deprive potential super leaders of the benefits of capability of their subordinates.

Excessive External Controls

What does Super Leader ?

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• The potential each faculty possesses for making the institute a better place if given a chance.

Super Leader Taps

• Success resulted more from determination and practice than from natural, in born talent.

• They had been encouraged early on to value hard work and to be inquisitive learners.

Success of Top Artists, Scholars and Athelets

• Over the time they blossomed into great performers.

• Individuals need to be provided with the chance to develop and exercise the capabilities that they truly possess.

Success of Top Artists, Scholars and Athelets…

• They are robbed of their most valuable treasures.

• Their human dignity.• The right to live a life that is

meaningful, that counts for something.

If Denied an Opportunity ?

• When a person loses these treasures, the world loses, too.

• And, of course, institutions lose a great deal when faculty talent is wasted.

What If ?

• Creativity• Innovation, and • Capacity to respond to

environmental shifts.

In Today’s Fast Changing World, the Emphasis is on

• A critical factor in promoting these important attributes of total organizational success.

Likely Impact of Developing the Self-Leadership Capabilities of Each

Faculty

• Consist of both behavioural and cognitive strategies designed to enhance personal achievement and effectiveness.

• Strategies such as establishing self-goals and administering self-rewards help facilitate effective behaviour.

Self-Leadership

• Monitoring and managing beliefs and assumptions.

• Using mental imagery and internal dialogues.

• Help to establish constructive thinking patterns (habits) .

Cognitive Strategies

• A philosophy and a systematic set of behavioural and cognitive strategies for leading ourselves to higher performance and effectiveness.

Self- Leadership

• Many institutions fail to understand precisely how to go about bringing out the wealth of talent that each of their faculty possess.

Institutional Failures

• Encourages conformity and adherence, obedience to command and instruction.

• Does not facilitate the full potential of subordinates, that is, how they can lead others to lead themselves.

Quasi-Military Model

• Is the success of others.

Measure of a Leader’s own Success

• The strength of a leader is measured by the ability to facilitate the self-leadership of others.

• Not the ability to bend the will of others to the leaders.

The Strength of a Leader

Questions , please ?

THANK YOUsuper leaders!