MODULE 1 Flashcards
What is Leadership?
leadership is the ability to make decisions and influence other people.
Social influence
Process of influence
What are two factors of ethical leadership?
Moral behaviour
Moral influence
Difference between managers and leaders
managers: more structured tasks, implementation of the plan and allocating resources. It’s a formal position
Leaders: increases organization flexibility, is more fluid and helps others. Inspiring. Anyone can be a leader
What is the romance of leadership?
placing high emphasis on leaders of the success of a project when a multitude of factors could have lead to the success
why does failure of leadership occur?
occurs at a frequent rate because employees do not trust their leaders, job dissatisfaction and disengagement of employees
lack of effective leaders
Why is EBM hard to believe?
Obsolete knowledge: managers more inclined to follow their own knowledge than research
Specialist skills: focuses on implementing things that prioritize one’s specialist skills
Hype and marketing: following trends etc.
Dogma and belief: culture and ideological beliefs
mindless mimicry
What are the three steps of leadership?
self-awareness
character building
delivering greatness
what are barriers to self-awareness
lack of honest and direct feedback
managers hire based on their self-perception
managers are afraid of trying away from the winning formula
busy managers
key factors of self-awareness
personality
strength and weakness
perception of you from other people
your blind spots
Personality
set of characteristics that make you different from others
nature (30-50%)
nuture: socialization
stabilizes by 30
Big Five Model
Consciousness: carefulness and dependability (strong correlation to leadership)
Agreeableness: courteous and caring
(weak correlation to leadership)
Neuroticism: anxious and hostile
Openness to experience: sensitive and flexible (strong correlation to leadership)
Extroversion: outgoing
(strongest correlation to leadership)
Getting along
high agreeableness, high consciousness, low neuroticism
getting ahead
high extraversion, high openness to change
Crystal intelligence
textbook knowledge, rigid, problem-solving only in expertise, too invested in being smart and take fewer risks
Fluid intelligence
mental flexibility, ability to process information very fast, reasoning and creativity.
Ok with failure, take risks and believe in the power of learning
