Tag: Organizational Awareness

Leading In A Chaotic World

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Leadership is not for everybody. Great leaders know that. That is why they don’t take it for granted.

Leading other people is not about control. It is not about being the boss. It is not about who has more power.

Leading other people is about vision. It is about care. It is about being a good person, a good follower, and a good farmer.

According to George Binney, Philip Glanfield and Gerhard Wilke, ‘The authority to lead is not something given from above; it is negotiated, day by day, between people as they work together.’

‘Organizational politics and leading is not just about being a good boss; it’s also about being a good subordinate, and a good citizen of a living community.’

‘Constant negotiation and adaptation is needed, as people and circumstances change. The key is to ‘get real’ about yourself and the group.’

‘Knowing what works well in different parts of the organization (or other organization) can provide useful data, but we still have to do the work to make it our own.’

‘Leadership groups that cannot hold their differences end up in ‘group think’ because they have developed a shared and fixed view of the world.’

‘Paying attention to feelings is not a luxury or a diversion. The feelings are there for a reason. If we can face them and consider them, then we can be of service to the group.’

‘Leaders need to pay attention to the social fabric of the group and ensure that it legitimizes their authority and develop a sense of secure attachment to them. People work for people, not abstract documents or perfectionist, fanciful targets.’

‘If leaders see themselves as separate from the people they are leading they are not only kidding themselves, they are seeing themselves and others only as a means.’

‘Without the courage or the commitment to act, you are part of the problem.’

‘Leaders need to stick with the vision and strategy when the going gets tough- as it inevitably will.’

Source:

George Binney, Philip Glanfield & Gerhard Wilke (2017). Breaking Free of Bonkers: How to Lead in Today’s Crazy World of Organizations

The Power Of Purpose

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Success comes from knowing what you are doing, why you are doing it. If you do not know why you are doing what you are doing, you are not going anywhere.

For example, according to Simon Sinek, ‘When companies or organizations do not have a clear sense of why their customers are their customers, they tend to rely on a disproportionate number of manipulations to get what they need.’

‘Leadership requires people to stick with you through thick and thin.’

‘Leadership is ability to rally people not for a single event, but for years.’

‘In business, leadership means that customers will continue to support your company even when you slip up.’

‘Companies and organizations with a clear sense of WHY never worry about it. They don’t think of themselves as being like anyone else and they don’t have to ‘convince’ anyone of their value.’

‘We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.’

‘Great organizations become great because the people inside the organization feel protected.’

‘Great organizations not only excite human spirit, they inspire people to take part in helping to advance the cause without needing to pay them or incentivize them in any particular way.’

‘Clarity of purpose, cause or belief is important, but it is equally important that people hear you.

‘A leader with a cause, whether it be an individual or an organization, must have a megaphone through which to deliver his message.’

Source:

Simon Sinek (2009). Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action