LEADERSHIP

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Define leadership by contrasting it with management and explore key theories, then apply visionary leadership principles—challenge the process, show enthusiasm, help others act, lead by example, celebrate achievement—to inspire change.

Identify the sources of leadership power, including position power—reward, coercive, and legitimate authority—and personal power—expert and referent power. Learn how leaders emerge through these dynamics.

Empower employees to gain power and influence by fostering cooperation, information sharing, and shared ownership of goals, while encouraging initiative and bottom-up ideas and letting others design solutions.

Explore three leadership theories—traits, behaviors, and contingencies—analyzing great man and trait ideas, two-dimensional behavioral models from Ohio State University and Michigan State University, and contingency and transformational leadership.

Explore managing change in dynamic, adaptive organizations and apply Hamel's five steps: imagining, designing, experimenting, assessing, scaling to drive value through outsourcing, partnerships, and clusters of capabilities.

Emotional intelligence drives leadership, per the iceberg theory, with 90 percent of leadership quality from EI and 10 percent from IQ, encompassing self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.