What does the perfect leader Does he / she exists ?, What is the worst fault a leader can have ?, Can someone be a good leader but not a good manager? What is better for a company?
1 How is the perfect leader Does he / she exists?
Paraphrasing W. Somerset Maugham, "There are three rules for creating good leaders. Unfortunately, no one knows where they are."
There are no perfect leaders, that is why good leaders try to improve all the time through self analysis, training, education, make mistakes and learn again, etc. So there are no perfect leaders is difficult to develop a good model of leadership and that is why there are hundreds of them. But we can make sure a few things that good leaders have: - A Future Vision (who we are and where we are going) - The ability to encourage others to work on the changes that are needed to achieve a particular vision - A passion for self development itself and others.This passion makes them good coaches and mentors - Empower your followers to do things (delegates) Your
- Does a leader need to be motivated? As leaders themselves remain motivated? A leader must be undoubtedly motivated. Those who do not are going to be considered as fraud for their teams and enthusiastic leaders who expect their work. Motivation comes in two forms: extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic motivations come from outside. For example, one of the reasons I'm going to work is because I get great satisfaction when I manage to finish a difficult task. Good leaders are proposed and achieve goals that allow them to achieve a healthy balance between the two types of motivation. Although many people see intrinsic motivations are the best, that's not always the case. Often external motivations lead us to new situations and our passion to perform them is exceeded.
3 Is it necessary that all managers are leaders? All good managers are leaders in different degrees. They have to carry out the vision of its leaders by creating their own visions that support this broader view, and then make your workers to reach this vision. For example Howard Schultz of Starbucks, had the vision to 2000 stores selling coffee for 2000 This vision became one of the driving forces behind the success of the Company. Howard Schultz did you create those 2000 local self? No way. Schultz's vision was achieved thanks to the managers and supervisors throughout the organization who had visions small scale. They gave support to its employees and the opportunity to grow with coaching and mentoring. A CEO can not be the sole leader of an organization. There are many leadership tasks that must be accomplished in the company. A leader can not just make them all yourself.
4 You say that anyone can be a leader. Is this really possible? Are there people whose traits make them born leaders? Anyone can become a leader who has the desire to achieve a goal. The features may be changed or modified, focusing on the most desired features and using them to master the features that do not work. This is one of the reasons why there are no perfect leaders, we all have a few unhealthy traits.But the best leaders focus on and grow from enhancing their desirable traits and dominate their weaker traits.
5 In what way do you see. That new technologies affect leadership and leaders ?. I do not see that the technologies affecting leaders or people in general. What I see are good leaders reaching their goals by choosing the right tool (technology) for your goals. Good leaders focus on your goals and do what is necessary to achieve them, do not choose a technology and then try to achieve their goals.
- What is the relationship between leaders and their teams? I see leaders as change agents who lead, develop and grow their teams.
7 Are there any trends that can be called "the new leader"? How things have not changed much in the last 200 years? As we understand more human behavior in the last 100 years, leaders have mobilized continued leadership of the Theory X Theory Y of Douglas Mc Greagor. We are still on the road to Theory Y, but we tipped the scale in his favor. Douglas McGregor developed "The human side of organizations" (1960) the following theories regarding the leadership style of managers: Theory X 1 The ordinary human being feels an intrinsic distaste for work and will avoid it whenever I can. 2 Because of this human tendency to shun the work most people must be forced to work by force, controlled, directed and threatened with punishment to develop the proper effort to achieve the objectives of the organization. 3 The average human being prefers to be directed wants sidestep responsibility, has relatively little ambition and wants security above all. Theory Y 1 The development of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest. Humans common dislikes essentially no work. 2 External control and the threat of punishment are not the only means to channel human effort toward organizational goals, man must turn and control himself in the service of objectives to which conduct is committed. 3 is committed to achieving the objectives of the company in compensation associated with their achievement. 4 The ordinary human being is accustomed to seek responsibility. The lack of ambition and emphasis on security are generally consequences of the same experience and not essentially human characteristics. 5 The ability to develop relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity and creativity to solve organizational problems is characteristic of large sectors of the population. 6 In the current conditions of industrial life the intellectual potentialities of the human being are being used only in part.
What theory is most accurate? While Theory X is still issued by many managers, is considered an outdated mindset. Proposes the adoption McGregor Theory Y to increase employee motivation. Donald Morton ("Applying theory Y to library management") suggests that Theory Y workers is effective with certain levels of knowledge to take them beyond the first two levels of Maslow's Hierarchy, and Theory X is often more effectively with personnel performing manual or routine jobs.
- Need to the leader? How to Avoid leader corrupted by the power? The degree of power that the leader needed is determined by the objectives to be achieved. For example, the leader of a country requires different powers that the leader of a church. Power is the possession of control, authority and / or influence over others. This power is used to achieve an objective. Some leaders and presidents have all three possessions, while others, like Mother Teresa, only might have an influence. Power does not corrupt. Corruption is the degree to which someone's action has turned into a moral scale than a company or a community has established. Although their actions are controlled by the type of power that is the inner power which leads to action. For example, Hitler was a leader for most definitions of leadership, despite hating certain groups. This hatred led to massive corruption (in their community was not seen as corruption, while many others do) If he had never become a leader inside hatred (corruption) to certain groups would still be there. The only preventive medicine par corruption wing is a healthy respect for others (diversity).
9 Some authors say that leaders must divide your time into 3 parts: one for managing finances, one for quality and one for relationships. What do you think about this? Leaders have two scales of 'continuous leadership' to follow. This continuum can be seen as a vertical axis (relating to people) in the managerial grid of Blake and Mouton. The other axis is relative to the task, and is plotted on the horizontal axis.Focusing on developing people and give them the meaning to achieve your vision (task level) you can be sure you have the ingredients for the success of the organization. In other words the good leaders has direct views towards objeticos, reach and motivate others to work through change and challenges to accomplish a task. This is synonymous with a successful organization.
10 What is the worst failure that can have a leader? Failure to see the benefits of diversity. If you have a different computer, you can not progress with creative brainstorming to stay competitive. Plus you'll alienate your customers and consumers to be well mixed.
11 If communication is a key point, how a shy person can be a good leader? Communication coming from a leader is more than just direct others, it's more about maintaining healthy relationships (which all shy person is able to do). Leaders use both action and word to get things done. Mastering others is the act of digesting others to get things done. Shy people usually do not become leaders, but many of them become leaders.
12 If much has been written about leadership, why are there so few leaders in business? Who says there are few leaders? The only people who can call a 'leader' person are their teams. People outside the organization can call someone 'leader', but maybe this person indoors a tyranny exercised for others. This can make a boss, not a leader. Only people who work for others has the authority to call a person a leader. Too many people equate leaders with authority. Companies that lag behind its competitors, often have a lack of leadership in their ranks. While large organizations have leaders from top to bottom. As I said before about the purpose of the 2000 local Starbucks in 2000, many leaders are needed throughout the organization to achieve it.
13 The role of leadership principles is so extensive that leads one to think: a good leader is not a kind of superman or superwoman? How can that be? Leadership is like another difficult skill - it takes time and practice-This is why it is important to develop leaders in your organization. The senior leaders should always train their subordinates in a program of continuing leadership.
14 Is the military model of leadership suitable for any company, as it is based more on the authority in discipline? McKingsey researchers found that in the United States Navy exercised effective leadership.The Marine approach to motivation follows the pattern of 'mission, values and pride' in which researchers say is outstanding for business. Other organizations that follow this model are 3M, New York City Ballet, and Kentuky Fried Chicken. There are other valid patterns to follow: metrics and processes of Toyota, the entrepreneurial spirit of BMC Software, individual achievement of Perot Systems and Reward Celebration and Mary Kay. Marines tend to follow these five practices: - Invest Invest in cultivating values that all are focused on corporate values. Give your employees more than a brief introduction, giving them some training with the most talented and experienced managers. A role model can influence 40 to 50 new employees. I focused on the values even after training, such as Marriott shows you customer letters highlighting a remarkable performance. - Prepare to lead each person, including supervisors train each person who has to lead teams to generate a powerful moral effect. You must be convinced that everyone can lead.
- Learn when to create teams and when set up working teams Genuine leaders are rare in the business world is one where an individual who leads most of the time.
- Attend half below the template not only the top half. Find the time to care for the poor or working poor performance, even if this entails personal sacrifice. It is usually cheaper and easier to refloat replace unproductive workers. Instructors from the Navy despite his legendary toughness, reject giving up any recruit.
- Promote self-discipline as a way of building Insist that all act with honor, courage and commitment pride.For example Southwest Airlines rotates their planes in less time than they need most of its competitors. Or not by punishment but by a desire to be the best.
15 There is a great percentage of leaders for a company? Can an "excess" leaders become a problem?Each organization is unique, so will need different percentages. But every leader and supervisor can demonstrate some form of leadership can not be simply heads and wait to become a big company. As for the excess, how can you have too much of a good thing? It's like the company complains of having too many benefits.
16 What is better for a company that does not have large sums of money to invest in training? Trying to build a team of leaders, with every chance of failure or concentrate on building a good team of efficient managers? Why should I be more likely to fail in creating a leadership team that a team of managers?Managers, get things done, but they have to have leaders and leadership skills for themselves. It requires leaders to have visions. Once you have your vision, you need to be adapted to general terms and is communicated to your team. Your team develops the end (objectives) ways (concepts) and means (resources) to achieve that vision. Except develop the means (resources) are all leadership tasks.
17 Can someone be a good leader but not a good manager? What is better for a company? There are many managers who can not lead, and there are many leaders who can not manage. And neither option is good for the company. Both strip the company a valuable resource. A leader who gets things or manager who can lead their employees well done.
18 Is there a success rate for converting common managers into leaders, such a rate of effectiveness or training? I'm not sure there is an index, since this type of training will best in category development, sometimes it becomes extremely difficult to measure. For example, if you train someone to operate a forklift, you can go at any time to see if this person acquired new skills. But watching someone to check that it has acquired leadership skills is much more difficult. How do you measure your skills to develop a vision? Develop a leader is not achieved in a 2-week course, you will learn the basics there. The rest will come in a practical period of trial and error. Anyway there are indicators that show how much they value the leadership skills organizations. In 1999 a study by Hay Group said that the dominant values in the most admired companies in the world were teamwork, and customer focus, innovation and fair treatment of employees, global reach and vision. These are all leadership skills! On average companies, the salient values are the marketing budget, to support management decisions and minimize risks. While these are all skills mangament! Large companies have leaders as companies heap are conducted by managers Aon Consulting of Chicago reported that the 5 reasons for employee engagement are (note that the five are mostly leadership skills too) 1) Recognition of personal time employee and family 2) The vision and direction of the organization 3) personal growth 4) The ability to challenge the way they do things 5) Daily work satisfaction
19 How the loyalty of the people are kept in a company that is reducing its structure? Not a lot to ask a leader? Leadership is more than allow people to do their best and become the best. Leaders inspire people while the controls established purchasing policies loyalty. Furthermore, organizations that have effective leaders throughout their organization will find themselves much less reducing structure that organizations lacking leaders. If you have leaders, you will find yourself doing the right things and when they come times of cuts, you'll be honest and compassionate.
- One of the major trends in the new economy is that people work from home, online work online. How can you be a good leader without face to face contact? Most leaders still "going to the office." In fact it is extremely important that they be viewed on the company. Most people who work from home are part of the team (as important as the leader) are "better" than were extrinsically motivated both intrísenca as being bein being allowed payments and do their jobs as they feel better. Leaders must take care to organize 1 or 2 times per week meetings to allow all employees to meet face to face regularly.
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