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Meaning of Leadership: - Peter Drucker

The document discusses the definitions and concepts of leadership. It provides definitions of leadership from various sources that emphasize influencing others towards goals, inspiring extraordinary achievement, and interpersonal influence. Leadership is described as a partnership where power is balanced between leaders and group members through shared decision making. The key requirements for an effective partnership are an exchange of purpose, the ability to say no, joint accountability, and honesty. The document also contrasts leadership with management, highlighting how leaders are more visionary, passionate, and trusting while managers are more rational, analytical, and structured. It discusses research showing that leadership can impact organizational performance but some research also shows it may have a small or substituted effect due to other factors.

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Meaning of Leadership: - Peter Drucker

The document discusses the definitions and concepts of leadership. It provides definitions of leadership from various sources that emphasize influencing others towards goals, inspiring extraordinary achievement, and interpersonal influence. Leadership is described as a partnership where power is balanced between leaders and group members through shared decision making. The key requirements for an effective partnership are an exchange of purpose, the ability to say no, joint accountability, and honesty. The document also contrasts leadership with management, highlighting how leaders are more visionary, passionate, and trusting while managers are more rational, analytical, and structured. It discusses research showing that leadership can impact organizational performance but some research also shows it may have a small or substituted effect due to other factors.

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MEANING OF LEADERSHIP

“Leadership is the lifting of man’s vision to higher sights, the raising of man’s
performance to higher standard, the building of man’s personality beyond its normal
limitations.”
- Peter Drucker

“ It is a process of social influence in which one person can enlist and aid the
support of others in the accomplishment of a common task.”
- Tom De Marco

“ Leadership is ultimately about creating a way of people to contribute to making


something extraordinary happen.”
- Alan Keith

In Short, Leadership is :-

 Interpersonal Influence towards goal attainment

 An act that causes others to act

 The art of influencing people by example

 A willingness to take the blame

Leadership as a Partnership :-

“In a partnership the leader and the group members are connected in such a way
that the power between them is approximately balanced.”

- Peter Block

“Partnership occurs when control shifts from the leader to the group member, in a
move away from authoritarianism and toward shared decision making.”

- Jon Runstrom
Requirements for Partnership :-

 Exchange of purpose

 A right way to say no

 Joint accountability

 Absolute honesty

LEADERSHIP V/S MANAGEMENT

Meaning of Management

“Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the


efforts of organization members and of using all other organizational resources to achieve
stated organizational goals”.

Meaning of Leadership

“Leadership has been described as the process of social influence in which one
person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task.”

Leadership vs. Management

Leaders Managers

 Visionary Rational
 Passionate Business Like
 Creative Persistent
 Inspiring Tough Minded
 Innovative Analytical
 Courageous Structured
 Imaginative Deliberative
 Experimental Authoritative
 Shares Knowledge Centralizes Knowledge
 Trusting Guarded
 Warm and Radiant Cool and Reserved
 Initiator Implementer
 Act as Coach Act as a Boss
 Does the Right Things Does Things Right
Impact of Leadership on Organizational Performance

An assumption underlying the study of leadership is that leaders affect


organizational performance. Board of Director-the highest level executives of an
organization, make the same assumption.

There are some researches and opinions, about the ability of leaders to affect
organizational performance.

RESEARCH AND OPINION # 1 : Leadership does make difference

An analysis of 131 fortune 500 firms had been conducted to justify this
research. Where Transactional and Charismatic leadership styles were measured and the
results shows that leadership plays and important role in management.

RESEARCH AND OPINION # 2 : Leadership does not make difference

Leadership has a small impact on organizational outcomes. The three


major arguments against the importance of leadership are -

1. Substitutes for Leadership


2. Leadership Irrelevance
3. Complexity Theory

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