The document discusses the differences between leadership and management. It states that leaders create change and inspire followers through vision, while managers focus on exercising power over people and implementing ideas. Additionally, it provides qualities of great leaders, such as being trustworthy and able to communicate vision. The document also outlines characteristics of top companies, such as managing leadership pipelines and letting employees behave like leaders.
2. Introduction:
“ Before you are a leader, success is all about growing
yourself. When you become a leader, success is all
about growing others. “--Jack Welch
3 Skills - leading, Managing, And Working.
A leader -Strongest in leadership,
A Manager-Strongest is management and
A Worker -Strongest in workmanship.
Leadership is different from management in several
aspects. e.g., A President/ CEO - both a L/M;
Chief Architect –Just A L; A Project Manager -Just
a Manager. A Programmer can just be a worker.
This does not imply that a Manager's role is less
significant..
3. Difference between Manager and Leader
Have Employees.
React to Change.
Have Good Ideas. .
Communicates
Directs Groups
Try to be Heroes.
Takes Credit.
Managers are Focused
Exercise
Power Over People
Win Followers.
Create change.
Implement them.
Persuade.
Create Teams.
Make Heroes Of Everyone
around them.
Take
Responsibility.
Create shared focus.
Develop power with people
4. Concept of Leadership
“Managers are people who do things right,
while leaders are people who do the right
thing.”
Good leaders are made not born. If you have
the desire and will power, you can.
LS Skills[ what you must be, know and do]can
be acquired through continual work and study.
The best leaders are continually working and
studying to improve their leadership skills.
'Leadership is all about courage to dream
big.'
5. Three Things that Mark Leadership
Courage to dream big, to take tough
decisions, etc.
Ability to raise the Aspirations Of People
and
Open minded and to Accept Great Ideas .
“Trust and confidence in Top leadership
was the single most reliable predictor of
employee satisfaction in an orgn.”
Effective communication by leadership in
three critical areas was the key to winning
organizational trust and confidence:
6. Three Critical Areas
Helping understand the company‘s
Business Strategy.
How they contribute to key Business
Objectives.
Information on how the Company&
Employee are doing.
So a leader must be trustworthy and
able to communicate a vision of where
company is going
7. 2013 Key Global Findings From The Hay
Group 2011 Best Companies for
Leadership study
95% of leaders at Best Companies are culturally
savvy and able to be effective with diverse teams
100% of the Best Companies let all employees
behave like leaders.
100% of the best companies manage a pipeline of
Qualified Leadership Candidates
Leadership Boosts The Bottom Line. Best
companies outperform the S&P 500 almost 2x over
10 years
8. 90% of Best Companies let employees bypass
the chain of command with an excellent idea
Problems are Opportunities. 95% of Best
Companies think this way
Collaboration is Mandatory. 100% of Best
Companies take action when a leader is not
collaborating
95% of Best Companies reward Leaders
based on their ability to build Excellent
Peer Relationships
In Best Companies, 95% of Senior Leaders
Take Time To Actively Develop Others. Only
48% of leaders at peer companies do this
9. The Process Of Great Leadership
Challenge the Process-Find a process that needs to
be improved the most.
Inspire a Shared Vision-Share your vision in words
that can be understood .
Enable Others To Act-Give them the tools and
methods to solve the problem.
Model The Way-when the process gets tough, get your
hands dirty.e.g.,Ratan rolling his sleeves
“ A boss tells others what to do…a leader shows it
can be done.”
Encourage the Heart-Share the glory and keep the
pains in your heart.
10. Impact of leadership in organization
a}Leadership and Human Behavior
Able to understand and motivate them.
Know human nature-needs- motivators.
b}Leadership and Communication
“LS is the hallmark of management.”
Faulty Communication causes the most
problems.
Effective Communication occurs only if the
receiver understands the exact information
or idea that the sender intended to transmit.
11. c}Leadership and Motivation
Influencing someone's motivation means
getting them to want to do what you know
must be done.
A person's motivation depends upon two
things:
a}The strength of certain needs.
b}The perception that taking a certain
action will help satisfy those needs.
12. Leadership Secrets
1. Decisiveness Is Key
“The most distinguished trait that defines a
good leader is the willingness to make
decisions that are need of the hour no
matter how difficult they may be. “
2.Visionary Leadership (B.Muthuraman,
MD, Tata steel)
The ability to create a shared vision among
team members is the primary trait of a true
leader.
13. 3. Relate And Rule
Ability to recognize all the factors that would make
the leader succeed in motivating the group.
4. Take Responsibility: Satish Dhavan and Kalam
saab
“A leader is only as good as his team. “
Leadership Involves Two Steps:
helping subordinates take advantage of their
talents, and then
fine tuning their performance.
“Good leaders always take responsibility
for both the success and failure of their
teams.”
14. Conclusion
LS has paramount importance in VUCA.
Competitive/competent LS- will face all the
problems very efficiently.
“The recognition of hearing you did
a great job and that others are
hearing about it is worth more than
money”.
“Being centered around others
rather than oneself or owns task”
-Altrocentric LS.