2. – EricHoffer,quotedin
OnBecominga Leader
• “In a time of drastic change, it
is the learners who inherit the
future. The learned find
themselves equipped to live
in a world that no longer
exists”
3. –quotedin
OnBecominga Leader
• “These are the hard times in
which a genius would wish to
live…. Great necessities call
out great virtues” – Written
by Abigail Adams to her son
John Quincy Adams
4. – Bennis p. 186.
• “If America is to regain its
edge, and face and solve its
myriad problems, leaders—the
real thing, not copies—must
show the way”
5. – Bennis p. 186.
• “The philosopher, not the
tycoon or the mandarin, is
king, because history
proves that sooner or later
ideas take root”
6. CHARACTERISTICS OF
LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter described
some of the attributes mandated
by the current chaotic
environment in When Giants
Learn to Dance: Mastering the
Challenge of Strategy,
Management, and Careers in the
9. CHARACTERISTICS OF
LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
• Continue to do everything
you’re currently doing even
better—and spend more time
communicating with
employees, serving teams,
and launching new projects
11. CHARACTERISTICS OF
LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
• Become passionately
dedicated to “visions” and
fanatically committed to
carrying them out—but be
flexible, responsive, and able
to change direction quickly.
16. CHARACTERISTICS OF
LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
1.Leaders manage the dream
a. Max De Pree, in Leadership Is
An Art, WROTE, “The first
responsibility of a leader is to
define reality. The last is to
say thank you. In between the
leader is a servant.”
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LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
4. Leaders encourage dissent
a. “Leaders tend to come in two sizes:
those who hire reflectors, clones
who will mirror the leader’s (their)
opinions and desires, and those
who hire compensators, those who
have complementary views of the
organization and society.”
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LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
b. Story: When Nikita Khruschev visited America, he gave
a press conference at the Washington Press Club. The
first question from the floor—handled through an
interpreter—was: “Today you talked about the hideous
rule of your predecessor, Stalin. You were one of his
closest aides and colleagues during those years. What
were you doing all that time?” Khruchev’s face got red.
“Who asked that?” he roared. All 500 faces turned
down. “Who asked that?” he insisted. Silence. “That’s
what I was doing,” he said.
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LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
5. Leaders possess the Noble Factor:
optimism, faith, and hope.
a. An old Chinese proverb says, “That
the birds of worry and care fly
above your head, this you cannot
change; but that they build nest in
your hair, this you can prevent.”
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LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
6. Leaders understand the
Pygmalion effect in
management.
a. According to Sterling Livingston
the following are the
Pygmalion effect in
management:
24. CHARACTERISTICS OF
LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
i. What managers expect of their
subordinates and the way they
treat them largely determine their
performance and career progress.
ii. A unique characteristic of superior
managers is the ability to create
high performance expectations
that subordinates fulfill.
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LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE
iii. Less effective managers fail to
develop similar expectations, and
as a consequence, the
productivity of their subordinates
suffers.
iv. Subordinates, more often than
not, appear to do what they
believe they are expected to do.
