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What is
SuperLeadership?
Superleadership is leadership that
inspires organizational success by showing followers how to lead themselves.
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SuperLeadership is a new form of
leadership for the era of
knowledge-based enterprises distinguished by
flat organizational structures and
employee
empowerment
A super-leader is one who leads others to lead themselves through designing
and implementing the system that allows and teaches employees to be
self-leaders.
Super-leaders help each of their
followers to develop into an effective self-leader by providing them with
the behavioral and cognitive skills necessary to exercise self-leadership.
"Super-leaders establish
values,
model, encourage,
reward, and in many other ways foster self-leadership in
individuals, teams, and wider
organizational cultures."1
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The Leader Is Best, When...
By:
Lao Tzu
The leader is best,...
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'...
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Why
SuperLeadership?
"The function of leadership is to
produce more leaders, not more followers."
~
Ralph Nader
Employee self-leadership is the key to success
in the
new economy.
With super-leadership, followers
are treated and become self-leaders.
If superleaders are successful in providing
strategic alignment and
coaching
people, they develop followers who are productive, work independently, and
need only minimal attention from the superleader.
Leadership vs. Management
Leadership-Management Synergy
Leaders:
Provide vision.
Managers: Provide resources.
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Resulting synergy:
Employee empowerment...
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Inspirational Leadership :
10 Roles
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Help people connect
their personal goals to
business goals.
Leadership is essentially about
helping people to achieve
a better
life. An important measure of
your own
success as a leader is the success of your
followers. Talented and
empowered employees are the prime ingredient of
organizational success and they need to be able to lead themselves.
Provide
strategic
alignment and
be a coach
to your people to help each of your followers to develop into an
effective self-leader. Establish an
attitude
of relentless growth to enable
your
organization and
people
to achieve their
stretch goals...
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Inspiring Culture
Case in Point
General Electric (GE)
Running the mighty GE enterprise, with its
twelve major businesses,
Jack Welch
didn't seem like a
traditional manager. He seemed more like a superleader: "I have no idea
how to produce a good TV program and just as little about how to build an
engine...My job is chose the best people and to provide them with dollars.
That's how the game is played." Jack Welch abandoned the old practice of
setting goals for GE's business leaders. "Now, we don't reward them
according to whether or not they reach their objectives. They're all going
to get paid on their improvement, and they know that. In bureaucratic
companies, they waste a lot of time on making budgets. They waste energy.
The world is changing quickly. We can't afford to waste time in bureaucracy.
GE is an informal company. We trust each other."4
Empowered Self-Leadership
The best organizations have a
theory and practice of leadership that subscribes to and promotes the
concept that leadership exists at all levels within the organization.
"Everyone provides leadership for those responsibilities that have been
assigned to them. For the the highest performing organizations, even the
lowest-ranked staff within an organization must assume leadership and
attention to detail for their responsibilities in a manner similar to the
most senior and powerful."2
With super-leadership, followers
are treated as and become self-leaders.
Three Stages of the
Suggestion System
1. Encouragement. In the first stage,
management should make every effort to
help the workers provide suggestions,
no matter how primitive, for the betterment of the worker's job and the
workshop. This will help the workers look at the way they are doing their
jobs...
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Develop a Clear Vision
The one quality that all
leaders have in common is that they have a
clear and exciting
vision
for the future. This is something that only the leader can do.
Only the leader can think about the future and plan for the
future each day...
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