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10 Thought Leaders on Leadership
10 Thought Leaders on Leadership
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10 Thought Leaders on Leadership
Reflect on the following in a minimum of 350 words each. (350 * 6 = 2100 Words)
- Thought Leaders on Leadership
Research and reflect on one of these thought leaders on leadership: Stephen Covey, Jim Collins, John Maxwell, Lolly Daskal, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, or the team of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
Summarize their core beliefs on leadership.
Identify critical leadership traits, behaviors, and communication tactics highlighted by the thought leader.
Discuss what you learned from your research on your selected thought leader, including any changes you want to make to your leadership traits, behaviors, and communication tactics at work.
Discuss how you can apply their teachings on leadership to an IT manager position.
- Communication in Project Management
Reflect on how project management involves detailed communications where a misunderstanding can impact dozens of future tasks within a project or cause a dozen tasks that were already completed to be redone. Sometimes the best way to learn is to examine mistakes you have experienced.
Discuss three examples of poor communication that negatively impacted an IT project and how you would improve them. You can use examples from your past work experiences or examples you researched.
Discuss an additional three examples of poor communication with the c-suite and how you would improve them. Again, you can use examples from your past work experiences or examples you researched.
Consider all of the forms and types of communication you send and are sent to you at work in a given week. You can include nonverbal communication too.
- Project Scope Management
Reflect on how project scope management is a critical step in project integration. To help illustrate its importance, consider what happens without it.
For a CRM software implementation project, list five specific potential problems and their negative impacts on this IT project if the project scope is not defined or if it is allowed to be changed by anyone in the middle of the project.
Using the perspective of an IT manager, discuss the most important aspects of the scope that need to be defined for a CRM software implementation project to be successful.
Lastly, discuss the role of IT leadership and communication in project scope management.
- Moral Leadership
Reflect on the intersection of moral leadership, motivation, team culture, and conflict management within an IT team from the perspective of an IT manager.
How does using moral leadership impact ways you would motivate your team or develop your team’s culture.
How does moral leadership change a team’s ability to manage conflict?
Include a description of moral leadership and your opinion on the continuing influence of moral leadership on management philosophies.
- Power and Influence
Individuals with authority have many choices in how they use their authority. Reflect on managers you have had in the past.
How did they use their authority and how did it make you feel about your job?
Discuss the difference between leaders using power and leaders using influence within an IT department.
Consider the role of an IT project manager who almost always needs individuals to complete tasks or provide resources, but who do not report to him or her (so they have limited authority).
How can they use power and influence to make sure the project is successful?
Should an IT project manager consider soliciting a project stakeholder to use his or her authority to help the project?
- Managing Change
Reflect on the idea that it is not unusual for departments or employees to be resistant to change. You read about Kotter’s eight-step model of planned organization, appreciative inquiry, and the psychological and emotional processes involved in successful change. Keeping in mind Kotter’s model, answer the following questions from the perspective of an IT manager or IT project manager.
What is the most challenging aspect of managing change?
How does change in the IT department impact the rest of the organization?
How can you apply leadership and project management principles related to vision and strategic direction during times of change within the IT department or your organization as a whole?
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Moral Leadership A Transformative Model for Tomorrow’s Leaders
Cam Caldwell
www.businessexpertpress.com
The Strategic Management Collection William Q. Judge, Editor
Caldwell, C. (2012). Moral leadership : A transformative model for tomorrow’s leaders. ProQuest Ebook Central <a onclick=window.open(‘http://ebookcentral.proquest.com’,’_blank’) href=’http://ebookcentral.proquest.com’ target=’_blank’ style=’cursor: pointer;’>http://ebookcentral.proquest.com</a> Created from ncent-ebooks on 2021-09-23 00:15:46.
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Cam Caldwell
Caldwell, C. (2012). Moral leadership : A transformative model for tomorrow’s leaders. ProQuest Ebook Central <a onclick=window.open(‘http://ebookcentral.proquest.com’,’_blank’) href=’http://ebookcentral.proquest.com’ target=’_blank’ style=’cursor: pointer;’>http://ebookcentral.proquest.com</a> Created from ncent-ebooks on 2021-09-23 00:15:46.
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Moral Leadership: A Transformative Model for Tomorrow’s Leaders Copyright © Business Expert Press, 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other except for brief quotations, not to exceed 400 words, without the prior permission of the publisher.
First published in 2012 by Business Expert Press, LLC 222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017 www.businessexpertpress.com
ISBN-13: 978-1-60649-253-6 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-60649-254-3 (e-book)
DOI 10.4128/9781606492543
Business Expert Press Strategic Management collection
Collection ISSN: 2150-9611 (print) Collection ISSN: 2150-9646 (electronic)
Cover design by Jonathan Pennell Interior design by Exeter Premedia Services Private Ltd., Chennai, India
First edition: 2012
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Printed in the United States of America.
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Abstract
Trust in leaders has reached its low point in recent years as employees,
peers, and the public-at-large voice their disapproval of decisions made
by those who head corporations, government, churches, and public
institutions in virtually every country throughout the world. In a society
that Princeton scholar David Callahan has labeled “the cheating culture,”
people of every class, culture, and country yearn for leaders whom they
can believe, respect, and follow.
Although the search for eff ective leadership may often be disappointing
for many, the problems of leadership are not new and more has been
written about leadership than any other management concept. Over
70 years ago Chester Barnard, President of New Jersey Bell and one of the
most respected executives in America, spoke to Harvard College in a series
of lectures and declared that most organizations were poorly run and that
most leaders were ineff ective. Barnard’s compiled remarks were formalized
in the landmark business text Th e Functions of the Executive—generally
acknowledged to be the most quoted business text ever written.
Over the years, other highly regarded scholars have reaffi rmed the
dearth of leadership skills and the failure of managers to eff ectively guide
organizations. Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon decried the “proverbs
of administration” or the misapplied and misunderstood principles of
management that passed in his day for correct leadership concepts. Simon
spent much of his career focusing on helping organizations to become
more eff ective at decision-making. More recently, Stanford’s J eff rey
Pfeff er has observed that many leaders apply “conventional wisdom”
about management, which not only is the cause of business failures but
that lacks empirical validation.
Following the theme of Barnard, Simon, Pfeff er, and other scholars,
this book has been written to identify the need for tomorrow’s leaders
to become more eff ective. In a world that is crying out for men and
women who will honor their word, build powerful relationships, and
guide their organizations in the quest to create successful and honorable
organizations, this book off ers useful tools and helpful insights.
Virtually every corporation, community, and country is searching for
leaders to follow who will add value, improve the quality of life, and create
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long-term wealth for present and future generations. Th e premise of this
book is that leaders owe a profound set of moral duties to stakeholders—
and it is in fulfi lling these duties that leaders earn the commitment and
trust that is key to achieving organizational success.
Today’s society and tomorrow’s organizations need highly moral
leaders who have the courage to make tough decisions, the creativity to
develop better solutions, a deep belief in the principles and values that
guide their choices, and the moral intelligence to create wealth for society
while doing no harm to others. Such leaders must, as Robert Quinn
advocates, “care enough to risk dying for organizations that would kill
them for caring.” Quinn’s insight confi rms the reality that, although
many organizations among us may still not be ready for moral leadership,
we desperately need to “discover the leader within” ourselves and become
the transformative leaders and role models whom others can trust.
Th is book presents a new model of moral leadership and incorporates
current research from highly regarded experts in ethics and leadership. Its
message is that leaders owe “covenantal” duties to their followers, to their
organizations, and to society to revitalize a world that has suff ered from
leadership that has undermined the world in which we live. My hope
is that this book will inspire each one of us to recognize the need to be
transformative leaders and to put that understanding into action.
Keywords
transformative leadership, ethical stewardship, trustworthiness, theory of
reasoned action, covenantal leadership, transformational leadership, serv-
ant leadership, level 5 leadership, principle-centered leadership, charismatic
leadership, six beliefs model
Caldwell, C. (2012). Moral leadership : A transformative model for tomorrow’s leaders. ProQuest Ebook Central <a onclick=window.open(‘http://ebookcentral.proquest.com’,’_blank’) href=’http://ebookcentral.proquest.com’ target=’_blank’ style=’cursor: pointer;’>http://ebookcentral.proquest.com</a> Created from ncent-ebooks on 2021-09-23 00:15:46.
10 Thought Leaders on Leadership
