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Summary of Notes | Lecture Reading

Current leadership deficits exist due to misconceptions about who is responsible for leadership development and ineffective leadership development programs that do not teach people how to LEARN to be a leader. Simply learning the skills and concepts of a leader is not sufficient for being an effective leader. One must embody and identify with “leader” and be perceived by others as a leader.

A leader is a socially constructed identity that is selected through a grant-claim framework. A good leader is one with a high level of mindfulness and awareness of self. Also explored are the concepts of the mindful engagement methodology which is an effective approach to learning.

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Keywords -

• Explanation - any reason, generally NOT subject to judgement

•Justification - has a right or wrong; assessed on the mode of justice • Contingent fact: It can happen or not “the rose is red”

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Study Questions:

1. Is a desire for value ask your team mates dor two things that they think you could have done better </aside>

Manic

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Reading notes

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Intro

Leadership is not a mere title, it is a state of mind that considers the collective’s needs and goals rather than personal gain

• Leadership focuses on influencing the collective towards creating particular results that benefit the whole
• leadership is not learned through following instructions but it is a function of lived experience.

Delegate as much as possible to avoid being the single point of failure

learning by doing is more valuable than adopting a leadership title

If you just look for positive ways to influence the collective then leadership comes with it

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Positive Organisational Scholarship Approach

Leadership courses are only useful if you are in an organisations that value risk taking decisions.

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Identity and Self

When people are scared of bringing the whole self, they overcorrect and bring none of themselves.

• being 100% authentic can be an issue. You must bring as much of yourself that is necessary.
• Self perception - belief about oneself

Socially constructed - created by society/ collective of people

• socially constructed things are made up but are very real and valued as such.

Pursuing things, actions, makes them more elusive. eg overthinking → you cannot think your way of overthinking

What type of indirect pursuit can help you achieve the goal you are actually trying to obtain?

• Telling other people what to do is not leadership.

make up ←→ design

Commitment to the cause

Feedback, especially critical feedback can be coupled with empathy

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Professionalism

The language of agency

the language of agency: the decisions made are a function belief

Avoidance of the language of agency “I’m sorry i can’t do that”

To be professional use the language of agency and be transparent about your reasons for your decision

Solutions first

Due process

Following a reasonable way to come to your decision

Conflicts of interest

Easy to deal with, just declare them at the very first moment that you can

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Whistleblowing

Due process: do not whistleblow unless you have exhausted every process beforehand

Make contemporaneous notes

whistleblowers themselves are generally unlikeable and can come across as arrogant

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Being successful and professional:

Show up on time

Always do the right thing

Find ways to be useful

Check check again and recheck

be there at the end - attend projects through to the end

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[answers] Study Questions:

1. The desire for value neutrality is to suggest that you WANT things to be neutral. But to be value neutral is to be indifferent, to not promote or prefer. Therefore to DESIRE value neutrality is in and of itself having a preference. To truly be value neutral, there must be no goal, intention, preference, moral consideration, judgement, even motivation for an action.

   Example of a value neutral action are involuntary actions

2. Statistical model - Says that explanations work by showing that an event fits into a statistical pattern or lawlike regularity; Says that an event is expected or probable given certain conditions; pertains to trends, probabilities, and correlations

   Smoking increases the probability of lung cancer ← smoking is used as an explanation for the cause of lung cancer based on stats that smokers develop lung cancer more often than non smokers (non-smokers can still develop lung cancer without ever smoking in their lives)

Causal model focuses on the concept that for an explanation to be sufficient, it must identify the specific cause (or set of causes) that actually brought about the effect

This person’s lung cancer occurred because smoking damaged their lung cells, causing mutations that lead to a tumor”

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