Journal ArticleDOI
Inspiring others: the language of leadership
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Conger as mentioned in this paper examines why these skills are so critical and what the new language skills of leadership will be, and how leaders through their choice of words, values, and beliefs can craft commitment and confid...Abstract:
Executive Overview While we have learned a great deal about the necessity of strategic vision and effective leadership, we have overlooked the critical link between vision and the leader's ability to powerfully communicate its essence. In the future, leaders will not only have to be effective strategists, but rhetoricians who can energize through the words they choose. The era of managing by dictate is ending and is being replaced by an era of managing by inspiration. Foremost among the new leadership skills demanded of this era will be the ability to craft and articulate a message that is highly motivational. Unfortunately, it seems that few business leaders and managers today possess such skills. To make matters worse, our business culture and educational system may even discourage these skills. Conger examines why these skills are so critical and what the new language skills of leadership will be. He looks at how leaders through their choice of words, values, and beliefs can craft commitment and confid...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research
TL;DR: This article developed a cognitive framework to characterize sense-making in the implementation process that is especially relevant for recent education policy initiatives, such as standards-based reforms that press for tremendous changes in classroom instruction.
Journal ArticleDOI
Direct and indirect effects of three core charismatic leadership components on performance and attitudes.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three core components (vision, vision implementation through task cues, and communication style) of a leader: vision of high quality weakly affected performance quality but significantly affected many attitudes.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Charismatic Relationship: A Dramaturgical Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of the processes whereby social actors use impression management behaviors to create and maintain identities as charismatic leaders, and examine the roles that the environment, actor (leader), and audience (followers) play in defining the situation and in jointly constructing a "charismatic relationship".
Journal ArticleDOI
Charisma, positive emotions and mood contagion
Joyce E. Bono,Remus Ilies +1 more
TL;DR: In a series of studies, this article examined the role of positive emotions in the charismatic leadership process and found that mood contagion may be one of the psychological mechanisms by which charismatic leaders influence followers.
Journal ArticleDOI
Charismatic and transformational leadership in organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the evolution of charismatic and transformational leadership in organizations, and examine progress along the following dimensions: 1) leader behaviors and their effects; 2) follower dispositions and dependency dynamics; 3) contextual factors; 4) institutionalization and succession forces; and 5) the liabilities of charismatic or transformational leaders.
References
More filters
Book
The nature of managerial work
TL;DR: The Manager's Working Roles: A Survey of the Managerial Work of Five Chief Executives as discussed by the authors is a survey of the work of five chief executives in the 1990s.
Journal ArticleDOI
Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation.
TL;DR: In this article, Frame alignment, of one variety or another, is a necessary condition for participation, whatever its nature or intensity, and that it is typically an interactional and ongoing accomplishment.
Journal ArticleDOI
Of strategies, deliberate and emergent
Henry Mintzberg,James A. Waters +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the strategy formation process is seriously limited, and that the process needs to be viewed from a wider perspective so that the variety of ways in which strategies actually take shape can be considered.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Differential Impact of Abstract vs. Concrete Information on Decisions
TL;DR: This paper found that base rate information lacks impact because of its abstract, pallid nature and that brief, face-to-face comments about the courses had a substantial impact on course choices.
Journal ArticleDOI
Speech style and impression formation in a court setting: The effects of “powerful” and “powerless” speech
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify speech styles that covaried with speaker social status and power in court trials, and discuss possible relations between speech style and person perception and persuasion processes and with regard to social psychology of legal issues.