This is the last video I made the morning of my recent visit to Lake Tahoe. Here is second way I love to think about leadership:
Others also talk about leadership as a relationship (e.g. Kouzes and Posner) but I just happened to get this specific definition from a text by Richard Daft. In this video I only focus on the relationship aspect of this concept, and in four minutes I barely scratch the surface of how important relationship is to leadership. If I left anything out – and I’m sure that I did – please share your thoughts about the importance of relationship to leadership at the end of this post.
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Bret, this is a great definition. I will use it when I teach next. Thanks!
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Bret L. Simmons Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I like it a lot, Alain. Thanks! Bret
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Hello,
As a student in the Geneva College (Pennsylvania) Master of Science in Organizational Leadership program, I came across your website and found many of your philosophies reflect the leadership theories we are studying. When I saw this quote by Daft I checked in one of the books we read for our program titled Leadership for the Twenty-First Century (1993) by Joseph C. Rost. On p. 102 is Rost’s definition: Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real change that reflect their mutual purposes. You quoted Daft. Did Daft cite Rost? Just curious. Have you read Rost’s book? It sounds to me that Daft was using Rost’s definition.
Thanks for sharing and I think your website is well produced.
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Bret L. Simmons Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Welcome, Tracy! I’m impressed that you know Rost’s book. I did not until I read Daft, and Daft does cite Rost. I probably should too but I found the definition in Daft’s book. Thanks!! Bret
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Brett,
The program in Organizational Leadership at Geneva College is very thorough as far as the amount of literature we need to read (yes, even Rost). Our cohort graduates May 7. I am working on my capstone summary which includes my personal definition of leadership and my leadership model. As our professor says, we all now have the Leadership Curse…a funny way of saying anything that we read about leadership from this point on we will hold up to our knowledge that we gleaned from our master’s degree studies. It has been a very insightful two years. Your blog and website has great information. I am glad I stumbled upon it when I did a Google search of Positive Organizational Behavior. Keep up the good work! Thanks, Tracy
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Bret L. Simmons Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Have the curse -I love that! I call it the infection, and now your job is to spread your disease
Go do good!!! Bret
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