Contexts of Leadership Keyword Challenge
Command-and-Control • “do it and do it now” • Difficult to adapt to
Organization • top-down authority organizational context.
• The leader sometimes
tends to become
increasingly arrogant,
isolated & even
alienated from the
constituent
Partnership of Peers • Everyone is equal in a • Requires great skill &
partnership tact.
• Collegial approach • How to communicate
with the others when
meet changing.
• Should rally the faculty
and other constituent
around a plan for
prominence.
Entrepreneurial Organizations • Alone • Knitting the investors,
• The ultimate decision advisors, customers,
makers vendors, and others,
• Profit with vision.
• Need to restrain their
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Style/Skill
• Accustomed to wielding
Great Power.
• Marches in lock step
• Authority devolves from
the top down
• Often appears as
vestiges of the old
military-industrial
complex
• Entailed uniting the
partners around a
common vission of
helping build an
innovative firm.
• Anti-autocratic
approach.
• Involving knowledge
worker.
• It has advantages when
confronted by
challenges that require
a collecial approach.
• Work with the right
partners
• They're allowed to
make decisions quickly
and execute it rapidly.
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The Academic World
Contexts of Leadership
Business Round-Tables and
Other Peer Groups
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natural instinct to take
charge & make
decisions if collegial
leadership.
• Sharing vision with
others.
• Academic • Professor's usually
• Independent-minded decide what research to
pursue & how to teach
their course(s).
• If there is a need for
significant change.
Keyword Challenge
• Executives • Someone else will take
• Designed to be the charge.
chair. • Tactfully lead
• Round-tables, boards contending egos to
associations, agreement on agenda
government items.
commisions.
• They have diligence
whom that they're work
with and find the effort
that's worth.
• Don't wait too long to
make money.
• Generate profit as soon
as reasonably possible.
• Careful to be
accomplish anything.
• Generally believe they
have no boss.
• Learns on the job that
can be applied in a
number of other
contexts.
Style/Skill
Have been through a trial by
fire that can temper & deepen
the leadership skill.
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Nonprofits • A discipline • Have to balance what Spend much of their time
• Grant-making they spend with what fundraising.
foundations, think they take in.
thanks, art • Need to work
organizations, and cooperatively with a
charities. board of governors to
have the definite ideas
for well-endowed
organizations.
• Dependent on
volunteers who don't
view themselves as
employees & often acts
like free agents.
• Volunteers can
sometimes have a lot
opinion that is not
based on facts.

The Military • “An order is an order” • Political and collegial
• Autocracy. skill.
• Must set broad strategy
goals using the best
judgments.
• Lives are at stake.
• Need to be successful
in promotion & dealing
with a large numbers of
superior.
• Order is an order.
• Tactical decision
making has been
pushed down the
hierarchy to combat
leaders who must
respond to moment-to-
moment change on
battlefield.
• Smooth transition to
positions of leadership.

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Government • Everyone is your boss
• Bureucracy.
Contexts of Leadership Keyword
The Operating Room Complete Autocracy
Organizations in Crisis • Crisis
• Becoming a leader in
very concise
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• Public visibility. • Everyone is your boss.
• Can be called to • Have been hired, or
account in public forum elected.
when the things go • Carry the will of the
wrong. people.
• Scrutinized by public,
media. Etc
Challenge Style/Skill
Human lives • Non questional order.
• Purest forms of a
command-and-control
context.
• Quick Decision Rapid Execution.
• Has to know when to
relax the grip on the The leader has to step forward
reins and allow and personally take charge.
authority to flow down No time for collegiality and
the hierarchy. delegation.
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