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Re: What is the essence of Martin Luther King’s leadership?

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Re: Philosophy and Leadership

Techfashion — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:32:46 -0000

Leaders may understand Leadership Philosophy in mind clearly. But, hard to make it into their work.

Re: Should CEOs be Creative?

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Re: What’s your ideal image of a leader?

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Re: What is the essence of Martin Luther King’s leadership?

Mitch McCrimmon — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:28:53 -0000

Matt, thanks for the comments. Regarding Gandhi, my main point is that what he shared with MLK is that both challenged the status quo, they both promoted change as outsiders to their governments. If Gandhi was a good speaker, that doesn't invalidate my point. Our main image of him is one of passive, civil disobedience rather than as a stirring speech maker. What I'm really trying to say is that there are a variety of ways one can promote change, no one style or personality trait is essential or common to all.

The fact that MLK was a good organizer of people also does not invalidate my point. We don't remember him or classify him as a great leader because of how he managed the people working with him. Most people don't know about this. No, we classify him as a great leader because of the impact he had on the general population. In this, his way of showing leadership was much like that of a green leader, someone who calls for change and, if successful, has a leadership impact on communities around the globe of which the green leader is not a member.

I advocate this way of thinking about leadership for one reason: to explain how bottom-up leadership works, that is when a front-line employee promotes new products or better ways of working to management. This form of leadership is also about challenging the status quo as an outsider, relative to the senior management team in this case.

Re: What is the essence of Martin Luther King’s leadership?

Matt — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:14:16 -0000

Thank you for the essay. I am preparing for a teacher leadership course this week and your ideas have helped me.

I would argue against you in two areas though. The first being that Ghandhi was a great speaker, whom spoke to crowds of thousands and in front of large government assemblies. Certainly he has no quote as memorable as "i have a dream," but never the less he is worthy of quoting and his speeches helped his movement.

Secondly, i don't think it is fair to not give MLK credit for his ability to organize and manage. You look at it from the view that he's not an elected official so he's not organizing committee to write amendments, but he was organizing and managing his followers everyday. I liken him to the president of the US. Everyday he surrounded himself by his cabinet members whom would keep him up to date and then carry out his orders. I mean he organized sit ins, boycotts and marches, you cant do that without have managerial skills

Again thank you for the essay

Re: What is the essence of Martin Luther King’s leadership?

Mitch McCrimmon — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:47:10 -0000

I would be happy to cite Dr. Ling if I had read him, but I don't know his work at all. I have never heard of him in fact.

Re: What is the essence of Martin Luther King’s leadership?

Rrock_us — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:03:31 -0000

Sounds like a summary of Dr. Peter Ling's view. Might want to cite him.

Re: Philosophy and Leadership

Michael D. Moore — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:50:07 -0000

The characteristic of leadership as "influence" is the most sound position. I have expereinced autocratic managers and they are not percived as quality leaders. Authority is the support for their "Role". Where a manager uses skill and expereince to influence and coach their people...now you have leadership

Re: Why our concept of leadership needs to change

Mitch McCrimmon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:34:25 -0000

Thanks for your comment David, but I don't recognize your description of level 5 leaders at all. Collins says that level 5 leaders live by the principle: "First who, then what." My understanding of this idea is that they get their best people together and draw ideas for new strategies out of them. This sounds like facilitation to me. Conversely, level 4 leaders operate with the opposite principle: "First what, then who" which means that they decide what to do and get others to do it, thus being more directive, less facilitative. Level 5 leadership, so defined, is just one example, as I see it, of post-heroic leadership where leaders admit they don't have all the answers to focus more on engaging others while heroic leaders, by contrast, think that they know it all. My argument in this article is that facilitation is certainly what executives should do but I would call this effective management, not leadership.

Re: Why our concept of leadership needs to change

David — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:08:32 -0000

I would argue that the level 5 leader is not a facilitator but a driver who impllements change through others using whole of life experience to create shared vision, character, discipline and pride for the good of the organisation or its clients - its about challenge at personal, professional and corporate level. And yopu dont succeed at this iof you breathe fire and threats to stoke an overbl;own ego. I believe its also a case of nurture from childhood; a thread of life experiences woven together that challenges and brooks no defeat.

Re: What is the essence of Martin Luther King’s leadership?

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