Leaders

The Strategy To Take Charge

Commonalties Among Leaders

•Different methods of overcoming resistance to change

•Meeting inside & Outside requirements

•Establishing set of ethics to be followed

The Four Strategies

I: Attention Through Vision

II:Meaning Through
Communication

III:Trust Through Positioning

IV:Deployment Of Self
Through Positive Self
Strategy I:Attention Through Vision

‘All men dream: but not equally

Those who dream by night in the dusty
Recess of their minds
Awake to find that it was Vanity;
But the dreamers of day are dangerous men’
That they may act their dreams with open
Eyes to make it possible’

T E Lawrence
Create A New Vision

•Assemble a vision of Desired Future

•Shared & developed with Key Members

•Leaders Core Responsibility

•Cant Be Delegated

•Vision Provide Bridge Between Present &

Future

• Successful Leaders are Great Askers

 Vision &
Organisations

•Develop a mental image of possible future state

•Vision may be vague like a dream or
•Precise as a goal or mission statement
•Vision is realistic,credible attractive future for org.
•A condition better in some ways than now exist
•JF Kennedy-putting man on moon by 1970
•Vision always refers to a future state, a condition
•That does not exist today
 Organisation

Maximize Reward From

Its Position

Individual
Strategy:Meaning Through Communication

•How Do You capture Imagination?

•How do You Communicate Visions?

•How Do You Get People aligned Behind the

• organizational goal
•How Do you get an audience to recognize
and accept an idea?
Develop Commitment To The New Vision

•Organisation Must Be mobilized To accept and

Support the new Vision

•At GM,Roger Smith Took his 900 EX on 5 days

Retreat to share one short mission statement
of 8 objectives
•All Must Support The Changes in the Pattern
Of Values & Behaviour
Strategy iii:
Trust Through
Positioning
Fail To Honor People

They Fail To Honor You

But of a good leader, Who Talks Little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled

They will say,we did this ourselves

Lao Tzu
Strategy iii:
Trust Through
Positioning
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence

Talent will not:

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
Great talent

Genius will not;

Un rewarded genius is almost a proverb

Education will not;

The world is full of educated derelicts

Persistence and Determination are

alone Omnipresent
 4 strategies leaders may
choose to position Organisation

1. REACTIVE

2. CHANGE IN INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

3. CHANGE THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

4. ESTABLISH NEW LINKAGE BETWEEN

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
 TRUST IMPLIES

Accountability Predictability Reliability

Glue the Leaders & Followers

Cant be mandated or Purchased

Can be Only Earned
 Strategy IV:
The Development
Of Self Through Positive Self Regard
Many Leaders Use 5 Key Skills
1. Ability To accept people as the are

2. Capacity to approach relationship at present

not past

3 Ability to treat all with same manners

4 The ability to trust others

5 Ability to to do without constant approval

or recognition of others
 The Myths Of Leadership
Leadership is a Rare Skill

Leaders Are Born ,not made

Leaders Are Charismatic

Leaders Exists only at the Top Of The Org

The Leaders Controls, Directs,Prods,

Manipulates
Leaders
To take Charge