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The next Leadership Impact Workshop will be held on June 2, 2009.
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Leadership Impact is a unique tool designed to provide executives, managers, and others in leadership positions with feedback regarding their impact on others (as well as the strategies and techniques that account for this impact) which would otherwise be unavailable to them.
What is leadership?
Here is what the following famous gurus have to say about the characteristics of effective leaders:
| Plato: | Effective leaders are philosopher kings. |
| Machiavelli: | Effective leaders are power-wielders, individuals who employ manipulation, exploitation, and deviousness to achieve their ends |
| Weber: | Effective leaders have charisma - that special spiritual power or personal quality that gives and individual influence over large numbers of people |
| Taylor: | Effective leaders view management as a science |
| DePree: | Effective leaders view management as an art |
| Drucker: | Effective leaders are able to carry out the functions of management: planning, organising, directing, and measuring |
| Appleby: | Effective leaders have mastered the art of getting things done through others |
| McGregor: | Effective leaders understand the human side of enterprise |
| Likert: | Effective leaders are able to establish effective management systems |
| Blake & Mouton: | Effective leaders choose a leadership style that reflects a concern for both production and people |
| Iacocca: | Effective leaders focus on the three “Ps”, people, product and profit - in that order |
| Bradford & Cohen: | Effective leaders develop people |
| Block: | Effective leaders empower others |
| Kanter: | Effective leader are change masters |
| Bennis & Naus: | Effective leaders have vision and are able to translate the vision into action |
| Burns: | Effective leaders are able to lift followers into their better selves |
| Deming: | Effective leaders help others do quality work |