{"id":480,"date":"2018-08-19T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governancesolutions.wordpress.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2022-04-05T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:40:00","slug":"tls-12-leadership-improving-followers-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/tls-12-leadership-improving-followers-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"TLS 12: Leadership, Improving Followers and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Welcome to another week of the Transformational Leadership Series. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Leadership is defined as, \u201c<strong>influencing<\/strong> people\u2014by providing <u>purpose<\/u>, <u>direction<\/u>, and <u>motivation<\/u>\u2014while operating to accomplish the mission and <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>improving<\/strong><\/span> the organization\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Influence is derived by <strong>inspiring<\/strong> others not manipulating them. Followers can be <strong>inspired<\/strong> by leaders providing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">PURPOSE<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">: Giving followers a reason for being, an end, effect, or an aim which inspires, stimulates and empowers them in pursuing a particular enterprise or matter\u2014good or bad<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">DIRECTION<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">: Showing followers how to fulfil purpose; instruction in what manner to proceed; <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">MOTIVATION<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">: Stimulating followers toward a particular end or goal; involves inner or social stimulus for an action; enabling them to follow the direction<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Leadership also involves taking actual operating steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#c45911;\">IMPROVING<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#c45911;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Notice the word \u2018improving\u2019 in the definition above. Whiles inspiring followers, a transformational leader must make sure they <strong>improve<\/strong> whatever is entrusted to them: their human resource, time, equipment, facilities, training, and resources. A transformational leader leaves the aforementioned in a better state than s\/he found it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Noah Webster defines to improve as follows: To make better; to advance in value or good qualities. To grow better or wiser; to advance in goodness, knowledge, wisdom or other excellence. To improve also means to cultivate or tend something so it gets better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Transformational leaders cultivate people, organizations and resources in such a way that they improve these things. Should they leave, they leave things in a better state than they met them. They live to build and not tear down. They edify and do not destroy\u2014unless the tearing down of a thing will lead to improvement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">Leadership is not transformational if it does not improve the lot of followers, <\/span><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">organizations and society. Exploitative leadership is not transformational, but rather <\/span><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;\">derogative\/counter-productive. 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