EXW 320
Leadership - Introduction
Google:
Becoming a Leader
Lots of Instructions of WHAT to Do
Books, Articles, Videos all describe in great details what to do:
Be
responsible, show initiative, be compassionate
Anyone can do “what’s”……..
What is nothing more than a tool…it is how you use these tools that
creates great leadership
What Vs. How
What is an easy concept to learn….HOW You do it is much more
important!
Accountability:
Positive: Leader accepts responsibility for mismanaged decisions and helps lead
company forward
Negative: Leader assumes all responsibility for company failing and makes no
corrective actions to improve
Decisiveness:
Positive – Company president makes final decision that results in short term loss
of some employees to restructure but in the end grows current and future
positions.
Negative: Leader enters company and enacts immediate changes removing
positions, people, services without fully understanding impact
Communication:
Major Bach
When you join your organization you will find there a willing
body of men who ask from you nothing more than the qualities
that will command their respect, their loyalty, and their
obedience
....
Commissions will not make you leaders; they will
merely make you officers. They will place you in a position
where you can become leaders if you possess the proper
attributes.
Maj Christian Bach, address "Leadership." 1918
Recognition that leadership is an acquired skill basis of
contemporary view on leadership
Background on Major Bach
Commencement address to Second Training Camp in Fort
Sheridan, Ill.
1917 – end of WWI
The Lessons of Bach’s Speech
“In a short time each of you men will control the livelihoods of
a certain number of other men. You will have in your charge
loyal but untrained citizens, who look to you for instruction
and guidance. Your word will be their law. Your most casual
remark will be remembered. Your mannerism will be aped.
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