Saturday, April 9, 2011

Leadership And Culture


It is the responsibility of leaders lead to behavioral changes that have both a vision of integrity for the organization and strategic plan for ensuring such integrity. This vision must be articulated in a way that is relevant and effective employees. vision that aims too high will not be taken seriously, and one that is too pedestrian will not motivate employees. With the spectacle of Court TV to avoid, what would the Steering Committee used to generate an accurate picture? style (or paragraph) to lead the board wants to promote shows the capacity for energy subordinates and the public to believe that the organization has grown over the singular contractual obligations and implement the level for the mutual benefit of civil society and interest groups.

The main finding of McKinsey Quarterly survey of more than 1,000 members of the committee that has focused for a time on accounting and compliance issues, boards are now determined to play an active role in setting strategies, estimates risks, developing leaders, and monitoring long-term health of their companies.

On one level, the study highlights the way in which the Sarbanes-Oxley Act holds the community - not only in the United States, but around the world - more accountable for meeting high standards in reporting and control of financial affairs of their companies. However, the implications for the management of even more far reaching. To achieve as much involvement as directors say they want, they will have to use their time in meetings more effectively and develop a new understanding of their roles and responsibilities, otherwise, they will give you the impression that management intend to take the day-to-day roles. In addition, the composition and culture of the community, as well as the agenda of board meetings, will require fresh thinking.

Understanding the choice of style of leadership necessary to create the desired environment for the organization begins with understanding the various leadership roles available to organizations today.

Leadership as management: developed by Frederick Taylor, the role of government leaders seeking to ensure the group activities specified time, to control and predict. That mind-set, says little, if anything, the leadership task of building shared values​​, trust and vision. It is quiet around the animating essence of business and business people. By relegating workers to the status of "cogs" in the corporate machine, it is scant appeal to the better educated, more aware, more and more people want-entering the workplace. should respond quickly to changes in customer demand for products and services places pressure on the rigid, procedural, control mechanisms developed by this managerial mind-set - to produce traditional outputs with multiple units of the same product at a high tolerance and low margins.

leadership as excellent (good) Management: This view of leadership, while maintaining mechanical operation of the slope, changes the character of the core followers (in response to pull the quality of movement), and increases the domain manager. Basically it keeps the idea that leaders and managers do much the same thing. This limits the scope of guidance that only one function - to improve quality - and ignores the full range of capacities and the leader and follower. It does not address the needs of corporations outside the emphasis on high quality.

Values ​​Leadership: This conception of leadership is rooted in the reality of human nature and behavior. essential human nature is simple, everyone has values ​​and these values ​​trigger the behavior. Even as the use and recognize the importance of values ​​in shaping behavior, of false desire to let each person choose their own values​​, to refrain from advocating any values ​​or even discussing the relative merits of alternative value systems. Indeed, teaches that each value is equal to any other. Thus, recognizing that values ​​shape our lives, but does not address that does not know how to consciously set their own value systems or evaluate the merits or the results of those we see in others. The values ​​of leadership is clearly separate place to articulate values​​, but seems too timid and unsure how to fully utilize the space.

Trust Leadership: This view sees his role not so much as a function of individual leaders, but as a condition for the group culture. Leadership may be spontaneous at times. Most often, it is the result of specific, planned activities for the creation of culture is suitable for inner harmony and interpersonal trust. leader's task is to build a culture of shared values​​, where people can come to trust each other enough to sublimate their differing values ​​so that they can work together. They accept this reality, the leadership sees the need for a unified, effective, harmonious culture characterized by mutual trust that allows leadership to take place. It is a collective activity, shaped and controlled by the values​​-laden notion of harmony as defined by its history of domination of the majority culture. Without a broad and resourceful set of critical skills, confidence, leader of the quest for unity will tend to exclude many important insights, tactics, and especially people. This view is likely to accept conformity as consensus or, worse, to be compliance and it should be called a consensus

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Spiritual Leadership: This view concludes that leadership is a function of the head of a concern for the whole-soul - the inner sense of spirituality, self and others. belief that leadership comes from leaders of true self - your inner spiritual core. The inner frame, not the facts or situation, determine what is good and true and beautiful, and therefore worthy of action. From this point of view, just looking at profit and productivity is unsatisfactory as the guiding values ​​focus on feeding the soul. He assumes that people are hungry for meaning in your life and feel lost and empty. To fill this gap, he tries to fit an internal review of the soul and economic needs. This view is one of the oldest excuse in Western culture, which is Emmanuel Kant. It underestimates the social value as the best foreign customer for the benefit of the largest indoor space of the internal market - the soul. May it be true that the keystroke is a metaphysical rather than link to a single soul denies the multiplicity of forces in action. What this view is particularly good at focusing all his attention on empowering relationships. leader of a metaphysical experience defines their own sense of spirituality and associates, so they have a greater impact on the transformation of the organization, its form, structure and processes.

Contextual Leadership: This view is a celebration of "maturity". Contextualism is the view of life that takes seriously the idea of maturity - a broad base of knowledge and life filled with challenge. Maturity expresses a commitment to courageously choose to define and protect those social space in the presence of enemy forces, while maintaining the skilled process of self-criticism and responsibility for those choices. broad knowledge base says more than a mere accumulation of data already in the ongoing quest to be familiar with the many discourses and varied articulations that entails. Challenge-filled refers to the belief in the possibility of bursting forth. This belief in open possibilities, limited liability, explains the relationship between management and contextual leadership. Simply put, contextual leadership calls into question the very essence of historical explanation that stress management rules, universality, and impartiality over contingent ways of reasoning that emphasize relationships, particularity, and partiality. Most of the management system seeks to transcend the individual. Contextual leadership enjoys playing unfixedness, incompleteness, and time. From this perspective, the spectacle open forum is a true reality of our time. All other versions of reality that calls for unity, objectivity, or integrity of the social body as assumed in most management systems are systems used for domination and repression.

Style is the context: Each brings a different style of leadership philosophy and value systems in practice and is the leading organization, but they do not address the experience of the leaders. We believe that the key to effectively leading transformational activities in the organization are first to recognize their own leadership style, along with their strengths and weaknesses. Second, identify the likely opportunities and issues created within the organization's culture and its ability to be transparently and effectively in society and associated with that style of leadership. And finally, to develop a reference point, or "place to stand", which allows leaders to act with confidence and consistency.

While the activities of the transformation of ethics and respect for the culture of the organization are important, essential, access to leaders take to demonstrate integrity and transparency will determine what the real cultural context will be.

It's up to you: his leadership, his style and basically create a context for the organization and lead the development and evolution of your organization's culture in a powerful and far-reaching ways. As a leader, it is easy to become consumed by day-to-day activities required by our roles within the organization. Meetings, clients, staff, and they report to me, all make demands for time and attention. Without the ability to create space for reflection and purposeful preparation, simply lead based on our historical experience of other leaders, or worse, simply take as given the historical culture of our organization. While this May be appropriate in the past, the dynamics and demands of modern social expectations and heightened expectations of compliance and monitoring systems to make that approach inadequate for the future. Whether you exercise your leadership as part of the Board, as well as C-level executive, or leader responsible for a segment of the organization, I , more than any other person, have the ability to create a strong context and culture that celebrates transparency, receives and shows confidence, and effectively guides employees as they make countless daily decisions necessary to grow and develop their organization. Finally, compliance and risk management is the product of choice by individuals. Their guide through this minefield of temptations and challenges the cultural context you have established support policies, practices and resources available to them.

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