Harvard psychology of leadership 1508 10 summary

Psychology 1508: The Psychology of Leadership "This is not the end It is not even the beginning of the end But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Winston Churchill Leadership Development as Personal Development “The Ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom first ordered well their own states Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their person.” Confucius “The process of becoming a leader is much the same as the process of becoming an integrated human being For the leader, as for any integrated person, life itself is the career.” Warren Bennis Janusian Thinking “Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole The result is a world more complex and confusing than the one made simple by either-or thought—but that simplicity is merely the dullness of death When we think together, we reclaim the life force in the world, in our students, Healthy Synthesis • • • • Person AND Situation Democratic AND Authoritarian Dogmatism AND Relativism Tough AND Nice The Coaching Model Ac ce diti pta on nc al (C e arl Ro ge rs) Leadership Development Daily Life Relationships Ap Parenting (D pre av cia Personal Development id tiv Co e op I nq er uir rid y er ) Appreciative Inquiry “Traditional approaches to problem solving are, by definition, a way of seeing the world as a glass half empty The Appreciative Inquiry is an alternative process to bring about organizational change by looking at the glass as half full Essentially, Appreciative Inquiry varies from other approaches to organizational change in that it builds on what works well.” Gail Johnson & William Leavitt Authentic Leadership “Know thyself.” The Oracle of Delphi “This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow as night follows day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Shakespeare Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher Parker Palmer Strengths Passions Zone of Great Leadership Vision “The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision The leader has a clear idea of what he or she wants to do—professionally and personally—and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, Action Must Follow Words “Unless a vision is sustained by action, it quickly turns to ashes.” Noel Tichy “What you speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi Leaders Create Their Environment Leader’s Assumptions/ expectations Leader’s Behavior Employees’ Behavior Organizational Environment 100 Years of Leadership Development A Meta Analysis (Avolio & Luthans, 2006) “The largest developmental impact was raising the positive beliefs of followers, instilling in them the conviction that they were better at a performance task than they thought.” Choosing Between Right and Right “The inspirational approach [to ethics] offers little help with serious conflicts of responsibility What to when one clear right thing must be left undone in order to another or when doing the right thing requires doing something wrong?” Joseph Badaracco Where have all the leaders gone? “Where are the Jeffersons and Lincolns of today? The answer, I am convinced, is that they are among us Out there in the settings with which we are all familiar are the unawakened leaders, feeling no overpowering call to lead and hardly aware of the potential within.” “These are the times in which a genius would John Gardner wish to live Great necessities call forth great leaders.” Abigail Adams Philip Stone ... integrity of the teacher Parker Palmer Strengths Passions Zone of Great Leadership Vision “The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision The leader has a clear idea of what he... Organizational Environment 100 Years of Leadership Development A Meta Analysis (Avolio & Luthans, 2006) “The largest developmental impact was raising the positive beliefs of followers, instilling... families, they first cultivated their person.” Confucius “The process of becoming a leader is much the same as the process of becoming an integrated human being For the leader, as for any integrated