What's Your Leadership Style?

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  pt_boss@...02/21/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What's Your Leadership Style?

  Currently, I can't say that I subscribe to any specific, documented leadership philosophy. I do strive to improve my leadership skills, but I'm more a fan of looking for independent tools than combined grand theories.
  
  There are so many leadership theories that give parts of a greater whole, and go to put the concepts in a box. Ultimately, the best leaders I've met and aspire to learn from, are experts in the blending of concepts to find the right way to lead different audiences. More often, in my experience, the audience and personality in play drive leadership style.

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  SandyMan102/21/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What's Your Leadership Style?

  You bring back.....memories of grad school. Lots of theory and models. As a
  senior leader I rarely meditated on theory or leadership models (although I did
  do this for my comprehensives!) Leadership today needs to be performance-
  based, behavioral and the learning steeped in best practice skill building.
  Leaders have integrity and demonstrate it every day. They develop others
  through coaching and skillful delegation. They also exhibit great courage and
  risk-taking; remarkable interpersonal skills (unlike the dinosaur stoic and
  exclusive financiers of yesteryear) provide clear expectations and help every
  person that is part of the organization understand his or her role in meeting
  the business goals/objectives. Leaders provide recognition to get high
  performance and skillful constructive feedback to get wayward performance
  back on track. They build trust. They attract great talent and do what it takes
  to keep that talent. Leaders readily admit their mistakes and they monitor
  their own destructive emotions. They celebrate successes and dish out the
  bad news with the skill of a good surgeon. Leaders leverage diversity into
  business results. They make their jobs look like fun....and most excellent
  leaders do just that...they incorporate FUN into work. Not making the
  standards lower or the outcomes diminished....they just know how to make
  you want to come to work every single day and perform at your highest
  levels. Few models and even fewer theories help us learn the skills and
  behaviors of meeting and exceeding our business goals. These goals require
  people! And the best model for leaders is to hone the skills of developing
  your talent and helping them succeed. Build your skill, build your people,
  move your business in the right direction. Be a leader!

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  ggshankar02/25/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What's Your Leadership Style?

  I am not sure if one can say that he or she follows a specific type of leadership style in taking decisions over any given situation. Each of the situations call for particular kind of style which needs to addressed as appropriately and it is wholly based on the audience whom you address the issue with.
  
  As such i do not think we can hook up to one specific kind of leadership style to handle all the situations that arise.
  
  -Shankar

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  glomagic03/06/08 Report as spam
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  RE: What's Your Leadership Style?

  Truly, though I have also taken the MBA Leadership class, so I could probably identify the style of leadership I come closest to, I agree with the person who said that the leadership style used depends upon the person(s)/situation. The class helped me identify areas where I could improve, but I feel that leadership is a personal, and often situational thing. I may think about how to approach an issue, but my thoughts usually center around the people involved and the criticality of the issue. I never think about whether I should use the "path-goal" model or some such.