Harvard Business review Flashcards
As HBS professor John Kotter later argued, ______ is about re-
sponding to complexity.
Management
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Planning, budgeting, and staffing are all ___________ activities.
Management
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To get a job done, managers must focus on _________ and _______, and they must organize processes that will produce orderly outcomes.
Control and predictability
Leadership, by contrast, explains kotter, is about _______and _____ to change .
Producing and responding.
Setting direction, aligning people, and providing motivation are
all _________activities.
Leadership
Opportunities for leadership can present themselves at anytime in your career. That’s because leadership doesn’t always require formal authority, but rather an array of intellectual and ______ skills.
Interpersonal
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At the simplest level, your
ethical position determines whether your employees feel ________ in your organization .
Safe
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What does it mean to be responsible for the ethics of your unit? First,
you must set an example of ______values and standards of conduct. Second, you must ensure _____behavior among your team.
Moral;ethical
You set an example of moral values and standards of conduct: assume responsibility for the tough calls. Examine your win decisions for bias-publicly and demonstrate a genuine _____ for all your company’s constituencies.
Concern
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Influence is a combination of two kinds of power: positional power and
Personal power
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To exercise influence up and down the chain of command, you need to draw effectively on your personal power by cultivating_____.
Social capital
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Officers may initiate a foot pursuit of a person only when they have established the necessary ______ or ________ to detain or arrest the person.
Reasonable suspicion or probable cause
As a new manager, what are the two misperceptions needed to overcome?
People Versus task
Personal influence verses positional authority
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Your purpose has shifted from _____ to developing and ______ people
Doing task; directing
Your real power lies not in your job description but inside ______.
Relationships
Leaders see opportunities in the instabilities that their managerial alter egos want to tame, they emphasize _______over process.
Ideas
What are common leader traits ?
Intellectual
Socio-eomotional
Organizational
Intellectual Leader Trait is _____?
Informed
Future focused
Decisive
Comfortable with ambiguity
Socio-emotional leadership trait is?
Self aware
Engaged
Steady
Trustworthy
Organizational leadership trait is?
Collaborative
Influential
Politically astute
Stimulating
Your ________ and your ______ may have different expectations for what you should accomplish as a manager.
Employees ; Boss
When dealing with stress in the moment _________ , _________and in the long term take care of health and work-life balance.
Identify the emotions (Label your emotions)
Find the source and solution
Once you understand ____ you’re feeling, consider ____ it’s coming from.
What;where
What are four common sources of stress for new and developing managers?
Role strain
Problem solving fatigue
Isolation
Imposter syndrome
One of the first tasks as a manager and leader is to gain the ____ of your team.
Trust
Harvard business s school professor Linda hill and executive coach Kent define trust as a combination of two components ___ and _____.
Competence and character
_______is how your intentions align with your actions while _____refers to the technical, operational and political knowledge you bring to the job
Character;competence
Your employees quickly form opinions of your character and competence based on both _____ and _______.
What your say and what you do.
You character is about your values. Hill and linebacker warn that if you genuinely don’t care about the group…
Your people will not trust your character no matter how able and productive you are.
Demonstrate your interest in the group and it’s work by:
Strive for consistency
Regulate your emotions
Mind your manners
Ask questions
Invited feedback
Give others and chance to shine
Here’s how you can cultivate their faith in your competence:
Plan quick wins when you start a new role.
Confront tough issues & knock down roadblocks
Research your ideas
Explain your decisions & actions
Be honest about what you do & don’t know
Arrange for back up
Ask others to test your ideas merit
Authentic leaders develop their individual style through _____ and ____.
Trial and error
To explore and develop your own authentic leadership
Learn from your life story
Understand your extrinsic and intrinsic motivations.
Foster self awareness
Demonstrating _______ behavior is also important to establishing your teams trust in your character.
Ethical
To be responsible for the ethics of your unit: first set an example of ______ values and ______ of conduct. Second you must ensure _____ behavior for among your team.
Moral;standards;ethical
Being mindful of your ____, your ______ and your ethical standard is essential to your ability to earn credibility as a leader
Competency;character
_______ is more powerful determinant of a good leadership than technical competence,IQ, or vision.
Emotional intelligence
What are two components of emotional intelligence ?
Self awareness
Self regulation
_____means being observant and honest about your actions, feelings, behaviors AND how they affect those around you.
Self awareness
To achieve self awareness you don’t need to be over critical but you do need to be _____.
Realistic
Golems described _________ as 5 skills and traits that we start forming early in life and that ultimately form a core part of our personalities.
Emotional intelligence
The 5 components of emotional intelligence are?
Self awareness
Self regulation
Motivation
Empathy
Social skill
If you’re self aware you know when you are angry. The next step is to use that self knowledge to ______ your emotions.
Manage
The ability to manage your emotions, Golemin calls _______.
Self regulation.
What are Behaviors you’re particularly sensitive to in other people or things you’re personally touchy about.?
Hot buttons
Lisa Lai suggests a 3 part strategy keeping calm in testy situations ?
Acknowledge what’s happening
Abstract yourself from the story
Develop a physical cue
Research shows that people respond to heightened compassion and _____ when you appropriately disclose your emotions.
Forgiveness
If you do something you regret, acknowledge ________.Apologize, then take a leap and explain what really happened for you.
Acknowledge what happened.
Leadership effectiveness is in direct proportion to strength of ______.
commitment
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ART OF LEADERSHIP
_______ comes from passion and passion comes from ________. Two examples of passionate leaders Walt Disney and bill gates.
Commitment; within the person
ART OF LEADERSHIP
Intelligence is multidimensional and includes ______ thinking and _______thinking.
Convergent and divergent thinking
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ART OF LEADERSHIP
_______thinking is where there is one right answer.
Convergent thinking.
ART OF LEADERSHIP
thinking is where there can be many right answers.
Divergent thinking
Leadership book
_________ represents one’s lifetime of intellectual attainments, as show. Vocabulary, accumulates facts about the works, and ability to solve problems within one’s area of expertise.
Crystallized intelligence.
Leadership book
____is the essence of wisdom. It can be increased overtime.
Crystallized intelligence.
Leadership Book
People draw from ____ in novel situations or when conventional solutions fail.
Fluid intelligence.
Leadership book
______tends to decrease in the twenties and thirties.
Fluid intelligence.
Leadership book
_____involves mental flexibility as shown by the ability to process information rapidly, as in solving problems on new areas of endeavor.
Fluid intelligence
_______ is what we think of as raw intellectual power.
Fluid intelligence
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Leadership Book
I’m addition to qualities of a leader. Characteristics of followers , many ________ influence the leadership process.
Situational factors.
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What are the many important situational factors that influence the leadership process. ?
Size of the organization
Social and psychological climate
Patterns of employment
Type,place and purpose of work.
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An assessment instrument developed by Ralph Stogdill & others at Ohio State University. The leader behavior questionnaire focused on what two dimensions of leadership?
Task-oriented leaders (initiating structure)
Relationship oriented leaders (showing consideration).
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A crisis can create______ followers who are looking for a leader to alleviate or resolve their dilemma.
“Charisma hungry”
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An ideal example of a transformational leader is _____.
Saint Teresa
Although transformational leadership was first discussed by JV Downtown in 1973c it’s emergence as an important theory of leadership can be traced to Burns, who distinguished two kinds of leadership _____and ______
Transactional leaders and Transformational leaders.
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_______ focus on exchanges between leaders and followers. Example a manger who exchanges pay and promotion for work performed.
Transactional Leader
_______ focus on the potentialities of the leadership between the leader and followers.
Transformational leader
This leader taps the motives of followers to better reach the goals of both.
Transformational leader.
Research shows this type of leaders has positive effect on an employees performance.
Transformational leader
_______ engages the full person of the follower.
Transformational
Burns states the ______ leadership often involves conflict and struggle.
Charismatic leadership.
Cultivating self awareness is hard, because we often mask ________ with emotions that feel safer.
What’s toughest for us to handle
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_____control in highly stressed situations is invaluable.
Self-control.
Self-regulation matters for 3 reasons. First, your team reacts to ______. Second, emotional steadiness allows you to question or _______your decision making in high stakes situations and third, your self control underwrites your _______.
Your mood; slow down; Integrity.
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Good managers also monitor and react to the emotional states of individuals on their team by?
Step 1: spot the emotion
Step 2 practice active listening
Step 3 reframe your employees emotions.
At its most basic level, your role as a manager is to set______ for your team and coordinate resources to meet your organizations ____
Direction; goals.
Assuming a position of power means you must become more responsive to the _____ of your direct reports AND the _____ is your organization.
Needs;demands
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When your actions create a deep well of trust you will be able to influence your employees_____,_____ and _____. This is where your real power lies.
Behavior, attitude and values
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Leadership doesn’t always require formal authority but rather ______ and ______skills
Intellectual and interpersonal skills.
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What are the three common leadership traits?
Intellectual
Socio-emotional
Organizational
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