[nukkad] Some thoughts on leadership-Rajababu

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>           Your Leadership Style
>
> Answer true or false to the following questions:   T or F
>
>         1. A good leader must be a good coach as well.
>         2. The person in charge of a unit must also be its
>              leader.
>         3. Leadership is primarily a top - down matter.
>
>         4. Leadership is mostly about influencing others.
>
>         5. There should be only one leader in a team.
>         6. A leader must exert authority to command
>             respect.
>         7. All good leaders have a clear long-term vision.
>
>         8. To be a leader, you must first be a manager.
>         9. Leaders are people who make decisions for their
>             teams.
>         10. Good interpersonal skills are essential for
>             Leadership.
>         11. The best leaders are also strategic thinkers.
>
>         12. A leader must be able to motivate people.
>
>
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> Answers to Leadership Style Questionnaire
>
> At one time, not so long ago, all of the statements in this questionnaire
> would be seen as true. Today, it is arguable that they are all false. If
> most or all of them are indeed false, and you answered true to most of
> them, the question must arise of whether you are as effective a leader as
> you could be. Here are some quick arguments for seeing each of the
> questions as false:
>
>
> 1. A good leader should be a good coach as well. First let's be clear
about
> what leadership is fundamentally. Leadership is basically about showing
> others the direction to follow, mainly by getting somewhere first and
> setting an example. Coaching is a nice skill to have but leaders don't
have
> to have it and those who do aren't necessarily good leaders. The strongest
> impact you can have on others is through being admired for what you do
> thereby motivating others to look up to you and want to follow your
> example.
>
> 2. The person in charge of a unit should also be its leader. Determining
> direction is increasingly a knowledge based skill. In any group, different
> people will have different knowledge. Any one of them can take the lead on
> a topic on which they are the expert. Leadership is no longer a monopoly
of
> the one person in charge.
>
> 3. Leadership is primarily a top - down matter. Same answer as number 2
> above.
>
> 4. Leadership is mostly about influencing others. Influencing is generally
> regarded as a deliberate attempt to persuade others to do something. True
> leadership involves setting an example that others want to follow - hero
> worship if you like - but the leader doesn't have to want to influence you
> as a primary objective. The leader's main objective is to compete, to be
> the best in a particular field, to get somewhere first. If admirers
follow,
> that is a side effect. Influence is necessary to get group support, but
> then we are talking about selling and this is not, fundamentally,
> leadership, however useful it may be for other reasons.
>
> 5. There should be only one leader in a team. Same answer as number 2
> above.
>
> 6. A leader must exert authority to command respect. Leadership is about
> excelling in a field that others admire. It is not about exerting
authority
> or any other DIRECT form of influence over others. True leadership is
> indirect in the sense that others want to follow you instinctively just as
> they admire a rock star or any other hero figure.
>
> 7. All good leaders have a clear long term vision. The best leaders ACT,
> others admire and try to emulate. Some leaders do have a vision, others
> improvise and react in a more entrepreneurial fashion. Expressing a vision
> enthusiastically is a good way of motivating doubters but this is
> motivation - it is not essentially leadership.
>
> 8. To be a leader, you must first be a manager. This is part of the old
> fashioned idea that only the manager can be a leader - surely myth status
> by now.
>
> 9. Leaders are people who make decisions for their teams. Managers make
> decisions - making decisions for a group is essentially an administrative
> task - leadership has to do with discovering or creating new directions
and
> getting there ahead of others. Again, this statement is part of the myth
> that leaders are, first and foremost, people in positions of formal
> authority.
>
> 10. Good interpersonal skills are essential for leadership. Interpersonal
> skills are important to persuade others of your point of view, but the
best
> leaders set such a compelling example that others follow through sheer
> admiration even if they have terrible interpersonal skills. The latter
> amounts to a useful add on - it is not the essence of leadership.
>
> 11. The best leaders are also strategic thinkers. Same answer as for
> numbers 3, 7 and 9 above.
>
> 12. A leader must be able to motivate people. Same answer as for number 1
> and 4 above.
>
>


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