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    Leadership

    Some Basic Facts


    Dr. Faisal Asghar Imam

    Is Leadership Necessary?
    Evolution and Human Psychology
    Attribution theory of leadership
    Implicit Leadership Theory & the Empirical
    Evidence of Meindl and Ehrlich

    Is Leadership Necessary?
    Some Answers

    The Emotional Angle


    Symbolic is Paradoxical
    Leadership is about perception(escalation of
    commitment, awareness)
    Big ideas/big lies (PURPOSE, VISION)

    BIG IDEOLOGIES & BIG LIES

    Milgrams
    Experiments
    KLPs
    We are Socialized into
    Obedience.
    Is Obedience Enough?
    Authority alone does
    not ensure loyalty
    Both can exist
    You can be a leader
    without authority
    You can have authority
    without being a leader

    Some Ignored Facts

    The Led
    The Situation

    The Situation
    The Ideological Perspective
    Stress & Uncertainty
    Us vs Them

    George Bush was Lucky!

    Leadership vs. Authority

    Leadership

    Authority

    It is Informal

    It is Formal

    It is Personal
    It is Non-Transferrable

    It is Positional
    It is Transferrable

    Musharraf Vs. Iftikhar Chaudhary


    A Classic Study

    CATEGORIZATION OF POWER- FRENCH &


    RAVEN
    Physical Power/Coercive Power
    Resource Power
    Position Power
    Expert Power
    Personal /Referent Power
    Hidden assets of Position Power

    Information
    Right to Access
    Right to organize

    The Negative Power


    The power to disrupt, distort
    It is LATENT
    Low morale, irritation, frustration
    and lack of commitment

    MESSAGE FOR THE


    LEADER/MANAGER
    When to use coercive power?
    Nature of tasks
    Effective leaders use power bases in combination
    Type of organization

    Leaders vs.
    Managers

    Manager does things right


    right thing
    Manager accepts the status
    Leader challenges the status
    quo
    Leader does the

    quo

    Manager has short term


    term view
    view
    Leader focuses on people
    Manager focuses on systems
    Leader inspires trust
    Manager relies on control
    Leader is original
    Manager is a copy

    Leader has a long

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