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Temat: What is leadership?

To lead is to serve those that you are leading. What do you think?
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Jacek Ołowiak

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Temat: What is leadership?

To lead is to helping people to find the best abilities in them and than manage this abilities by setting this people in right places. Good leader can decide who is better in thinking and who is better in giving ideas or judging and haveing this informatiion can build very strong team.
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Bart T.

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Temat: What is leadership?

Bartosz O.:To lead is to serve those that you are leading. What do you think?


A nice 'un...definitely STEWARDSHIP is part of it - but not the whole picture...
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Iwona K.

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Temat: What is leadership?

They attract all.
Wherever they go, the people follow them.
They do not have to give orders, shout or scare.
They do not have to because they are LEADERS.

House defines "leadership" organizationally as "the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members" (House, R. J. 2004: page 15).
Leadership can have a formal aspect (as in politics or in business life) or an informal one (as in most friendships). Speaking of "leadership" usually implies that the entities doing the leading have some "leadership skills" or competencies. Studies of leadership have suggested qualities that people associate with leadership:
- talent and specific skill at some task at hand,
- initiative and entrepreneurial drive,
- ability to arouse strong, positive emotions in people,
- charismatic inspiration,
- clear goals-focus-commitment,
- results-orientation,
- ability to encourage and nurture those that report to them – delegate in such a way as people will grow,
- understanding what others say, rather than listening to how they say things.

The power of a leader depends on the ability of – as Dwight Eisenhower said – getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Even the person who makes all errors of the world sometimes fits to the leader's role. He want be handsome or mediumistic. But when the crisis is insisting this person is becoming the hero. When the crisis is over, the same person isn't able to be oneself again, because the situation requires another leader's type already. Winston Churchill who won the war and lose election after the war is one of the examples here.

Some commentators link leadership closely with the idea of management. Some would even regard the two as synonymous. And wrongly so, as these two roles are frequently in opposition. The manager is creating short-term plans, is concentrating on tasks, systems and structures. He is subordinating, stabilizing, controlling and eliminating the risk. The leader is creating long-term vision. He is concentrating on people and inspiring them. And what is very important the leader is collecting not eliminating the risk.

Only outstanding personalities are capable of performing both these roles together. But the business leader has to be an exceptional figure.
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OK another approach having in mind everything that Iwona (thanks) wrote:

Leadership is about winning hearts and minds of people to achieve a common goal.


Bartosz Oleśny edytował(a) ten post dnia 19.11.06 o godzinie 19:46
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Grzegorz Tesluk

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Temat: What is leadership?

In my opinion we can talk about two different leadership skills. One is Individual Leadership - that I understand as giving feedback - positive and negative and motivate a single person, direct his/her in development. The other one is a group leadership that I understand as being charismatic leader, inspiring people and steering them.
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Bart T.

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Temat: What is leadership?

Grzegorz T.:In my opinion we can talk about two different leadership skills. One is Individual Leadership - that I understand as giving feedback ...motivate a single person, direct his/her in development. The other one is a group leadership that I understand as being charismatic leader, inspiring people and steering them.


Can you motivate someone well when you're not charismatic?
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Grzegorz Tesluk

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Temat: What is leadership?

Bart Jozef T. .:
Grzegorz T.:In my opinion we can talk about two different leadership skills. One is Individual Leadership - that I understand as giving feedback ...motivate a single person, direct his/her in development. The other one is a group leadership that I understand as being charismatic leader, inspiring people and steering them.


Can you motivate someone well when you're not charismatic?


Yes. I know managers who are not charismatic (if we understand the same meaning) and are very successful in managing people (rather small groups, to 5 people). Of course in a specific environment i.e. at office work. At the same time I do not see them i.e. in managing bigger groups (more than 10 people) or in other environment i.e. to be a production manager in a factory.
Of course it is an advantage if you are charismatic but not a failure factor.
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Jacek Wysoczynski

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Temat: What is leadership?

Can you motivate someone well when you're not charismatic?
Yes. I know managers who are not charismatic (if we understand the same meaning) and are very successful in managing people (rather small groups, to 5 people).


This is pretty interesting point. However I see that this point is in fact already present in your statement. In my opinion there are two different things messed. One is being manager and managing people (you give example with team up to 10 people). The other is being a leader. To be 'leader' you need charisma and need to pull the people with this 'something'.

Maybe this clear division comes from the fact that my background is Program Management and not people management, so I see the difference in approach. My team is 'virtual' and I need to encourage people without managing them in classical people management way. This requires PMs to be more leaders than managers and that's why they put so much attention to that.

Thanks for good catch!
Jacek
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Grzegorz Tesluk

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Temat: What is leadership?

Jacek W.:
Can you motivate someone well when you're not charismatic?
Yes. I know managers who are not charismatic (if we understand the same meaning) and are very successful in managing people (rather small groups, to 5 people).


In my opinion there are two different things messed. One is being manager and managing people (you give example with team up to 10 people). The other is being a leader. To be 'leader' you need charisma and need to pull the people with this 'something'.

I agree with you. This is the point however usually people misslead these two roles: manager and leader.
Regards,
Grzegorz
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Temat: What is leadership?

Grzegorz T.:
Jacek W.:
Can you motivate someone well when you're not charismatic?
Yes. I know managers who are not charismatic (if we understand the same meaning) and are very successful in managing people (rather small groups, to 5 people).


One who can lead people doesn't have to manage them (probably that's a quote from Jack Welch, I'm not sure). Would you agree with it, guys?

cheers,
Matt
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Temat: What is leadership?

A leader is the one at the top with the big picture, the big vision, the goals clearly set out in front, the fire and and charisma to motivate the managers...

The Manager is the one who designs or follows a set of procedures to realize the leader's vision.

If a leader and a group of managers are in a jungle, it's the managers who create a path, chopping down the plants. It's the leader the climbs the tree and shouts "Wrong jungle!"
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