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1、4LeadershipLeadership is the art and science of getting things done throughpeople.A great leader helps others see pattern,meaning,anddirection in data and events They see constellations whereothers see stars.In this unit,you will read about the keyingredients of great leadership,a case study of a co

2、mpany withgreat leadership,and the introduction to a psychologist whosetheories shifted leadership thinking from workers as machines toworkers as motivated human beings.第1页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipUnit ContentsLead-inText A Text BText C Writing第2页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipLead-inActivity第3页/共67页Unit 4Leaders

3、hipLead-inActivity Group discussionMake a list of great leaders.They may be business,political,military leaders or leaders from any other field you can think of.Divide into groups of 4-5 and discuss the following questions:What makes each leader great?Write down their major characteristics.Read thro

4、ugh the major characteristics of each great leader.Do you see any common themes?第4页/共67页Text A Critical reading and thinkingBackground informationSupplementary informationOverview Language building-upSpecialized vocabularySignpost languageFormal EnglishPeter Drucker and LeadershipUnit 4Leadership第5页

5、/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ABackground information Video:Lead like Great ConductorsCritical reading and thinkingPoints:Leadership is getting things done through people.An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge:creating perfect harmony without saying a word.第6页/共67页Unit 4Leadershi

6、pText ABackground information Tasks:Critical reading and thinking Take notes as you listen Focus on the following issues:-What is each conductors attitude towards control(by conductor)and autonomy(of musicians)?-Which style do you prefer as a musician?Why?第7页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ABackground inf

7、ormation Critical reading and thinkingWhere would you put them?highlowlowhighautonomycontrol第8页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ABackground information The five conductors are:Critical reading and thinking Carlos Kleiber(I)Ricardo Mutti Richard Strauss Herbert von Karajan Carlos Kleiber(II)Lenny Bernstein第

8、9页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ABackground information Critical reading and thinkingWhere would you put them?highlowlowhighautonomycontrolRicardo MuttiHerbert von KarajanCarlos KeiberRichard Strauss/Lenny Bernstein第10页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ABackground information Followers decide leadership styleCr

9、itical reading and thinking knowledge workers want more autonomy and less control (leadership)labors,esp.unskilled or semi-skilled workers need less autonomy and more control(management)第11页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ABackground information How does leadership differ from management?(Warren Bennis,On

10、 Becoming a Leader)Critical reading and thinkingThe managerThe leaderadministers;innovates;is a copy;is an original;maintains;develops;focuses on systems and structures;focuses on peoplerelies on control;inspires trusthas a short-range view;has a long-range perspectiveasks how and when;asks what and

11、 whyhas his eyes always on the bottom line;has his eyes on the horizon;imitates;originates;accepts the status quo;challenges the status quo;第12页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ABackground information Critical reading and thinkingThe managerThe leaderis the classic good soldier;is his own self;does things

12、right;does the right thing;plans and budgets;creates vision and strategy;is generally directing and controlling;allows room for others to grow&changecreates boundaries;reduces boundaries;bases relationship with people on position power;bases relationship and influence on personal power;acts as boss;

13、acts as facilitator,coach and servant;personal quality:emotional distance,expert mind,talking,conformity,and insight into organizationpersonal quality:emotional connectedness,open mind,listening,nonconformity,and insight into selfmaintains stability;creates change;creates a culture of efficiency.cre

14、ates a culture of integrity.第13页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ASupplementary information Critical reading and thinkingPeter F.Drucker(1909 2005):an influential writer,management consultant,and self-described“social ecologist”.He was born in Austria,worked in Germany(thus his first-hand experience of Hit

15、lers charismatic leadership)and England,and then became a naturalized US citizen in 1943.His writings explored how humans are organized across the business,government and the nonprofit sectors of society.He predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century,including privatizatio

16、n and decentralization;the decisive importance of marketing;and the emergence of the information society.He coined the term“knowledge worker”.第14页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ASupplementary information Critical reading and thinkingHis writings explored how humans are organized across the business,gover

17、nment and the nonprofit sectors of society.He predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century,including privatization and decentralization;the decisive importance of marketing;and the emergence of the information society.He coined the term“knowledge worker”.第15页/共67页Unit 4Lead

18、ershipText AOverview Text analysisCritical reading and thinkingSubheadings:Scan the subheadings in Text A and try to get the main idea of each part.第16页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysisCritical reading and thinkingPart I:Peter Druckers evolving attitudes toward leadershipPart II:Pete

19、r Druckers model of effective leadershipScan the subtitles in Text A and decide where Part II starts.第17页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysisCritical reading and thinkingPart I follows a chronological order.Find out all references to time in this part,and write down Druckers attitude to

20、ward leadership at each period.第18页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysisCritical reading and thinking1947Seven years later1973the 1970s the late 1980s Management is leadership.Leadership is of utmost importance.Indeed there is no substitute for it.Leadership cannot be taught or learned.T

21、here is no substitute for leadership.But management cannot create leaders.Intellectual struggle with the notion of leadership:he knew leadership was important,but he was uncomfortable with charismatic leadership Xenophons ideas on military leadership should be adapted by executives to modern managem

22、ent practice.Time Attitude第19页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysisCritical reading and thinkingTime Attitude1988 19962004career endHe gave the word leadership prominence.A complete reversal of attitude.Leadership must be learned and can be learned.Abandoned his earlier position.Charisma

23、tic leadership as neither good nor bad but rather like the force in Star Wars,with a dark side that right-minded leaders needed to avoid.Leadership could be learned,and it should be presented as a topic separate and distinct from management.第20页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysisCritic

24、al reading and thinkingPeter Drucker did not think management differed from leadership until his career end.第21页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysisCritical reading and thinkingPeter Drucker had doubts about charismatic leadership(魅力型领导）第22页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analy

25、sisCritical reading and thinkingGerman sociologist Max Weber distinguished back in the 1920s three ideal types of leadership-charismatic domination (魅力型权威）-feudal/traditional domination（封建/传统型权威）-bureaucratic/legal domination（官僚/法理型权威）第23页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysisCritical rea

26、ding and thinkingStrength of charismatic leadershipresults in relatively strong,unchallenged levels of obedienceuseful in a difficult time,e.g.crisisit can be very effective if the leaders vision is correctrhetorical abilityenergetic,unconventional,examplary第24页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Te

27、xt analysisCritical reading and thinkingLimitations of charismatic leadershipgathering weak yes-man around the leadercharismatic leaders are raretendency to narcissismfreedom from moral(inner)conflicts:e.g.Hitlerunpredictable,potentially dangerous第25页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText AOverview Text analysis

28、Critical reading and thinkingPart IIThere are five basic aspects in the effective leadership model.Please summarize the main idea of each aspect.第26页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ACritical reading and thinkingStrategic planning:Leaders must be personally involved in developing the strategy.They set up t

29、he goals before any action is taken.The means towards achieving the goals could change as situation changes.第27页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ACritical reading and thinkingBusiness ethics&personal integrity:There is a difference between the two.Both are necessary for effective leadership.Modeling milita

30、ry leadership:Battlefields put leadership to extreme tests.A lot is to be learned from great military leaders.第28页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ACritical reading and thinkingBusiness ethics&personal integrity:There is a difference between the two.Both are necessary for effective leadership.Modeling mili

31、tary leadership:Battlefields put leadership to extreme tests.A lot is to be learned from great military leaders.第29页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ASupplementary information Critical reading and thinkingXenophon(c.430 354 BC):a Greek historian,soldier,and philosopher.While a young man,Xenophon participat

32、ed in the expedition led by Cyrus the Younger(小居鲁士).Cyrus was killed in the battle.The Greek soldiers found themselves without leadership far from the sea,deep in hostile territory.They elected new leaders,including Xenophon,and fought their way back to Greece.第30页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ASuppleme

33、ntary information Critical reading and thinkingXenophon wrote Kyropaidaia(also spelled as Cyropaedia居鲁士的教育),a historical romance on the education of the ideal ruler,trained to rule as a benevolent despot over his admiring and willing subjects.第31页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ASupplementary information

34、Critical reading and thinkingFrances Hesselbein(1915-):CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA for 15 years(1976-1990)before Peter Drucker invited her to serve as President and CEO of the Leader to Leader Institute(previously known as as the Peter F.Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management).She is cred

35、ited with leading a turnaround for the Girl Scouts.During her tenure,the Girl Scouts was rescued from the danger of dissolution and attained a membership of 2.25 million girls with a workforce of 780,000,mainly volunteers.In 1998,Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work

36、with the Girl Scouts of America.第32页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText ASupplementary information Critical reading and thinkingThe psychological principle of motivation:Workers,especially knowledge workers,are not to be managed,but to be led,to be motivated to do things.The marketing modelLeaders must treat

37、workers as partners.The latter cant be ordered around.They must be persuaded.第33页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipSpecialized vocabularyText A Language building-upSearch the Internet and find equivalents of the following English words or phrases inChinese business literature.effective leadershipmanagement pract

38、icestrategic planningmissionvisiongoalobjectivefunctionexpense resourceperformance insight高效能劳动力管理实践战略规划使命愿景（长期）目标（中短期）目标职能费用，支出资源绩效洞察第34页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText A Language building-upSignpost language Parenthetical statements第35页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText A Language building-upSignpost language Ex

39、amples from Text A1.However,despite these clear early statements,Drucker did at times seem to equivocate about leadership.Only a few short sentences after the statement about the importance of leadership,for example,he added,Leadership cannot be taught or learned.2.Clearly,Drucker was ambivalent abo

40、ut leadershipor at least the idea that it could be taughtand he remained so for much of his career.3.In his foreword to The Leader of the Future,he wrote,Leadership must be learned and can be learned.(Italics added.)第36页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText A Language building-upSignpost language Examples from

41、Text A4.While Drucker did not leave us with a unified model of his concepts about effective leadership,I was able to derive the essence of his beliefs from a variety of sources,including his published workbooks and articles,oral presentations,and tapesas well as my own class notes and personal conve

42、rsations both during my schooling and after my graduation.5.He called them partners,and wrote that partners couldnt be ordered they had to be persuaded,and leadership was therefore a marketing job.6.However,to market correctly,the needs of each group or customer segment,including their values and be

43、haviors,had to be understood.7.In this way,a company would develop products and promote them in the way that the customernot the marketerconsidered important.第37页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipFormal EnglishText A Language building-upOn informal occasions,we tend to begin a sentence with a pronoun like I,you,

44、we,one or just people.However,in formal settings,sentences are more likely to begin with it or there.Passive voices are employed more often.Nouns are more favored over adjectives indicating the same meaning.第38页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipFormal EnglishText A Language building-upWhich of the two is more fo

45、rmal?You cannot predict the future,but you can create it.The best way to predict the future is to create it.第39页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipFormal EnglishText A Language building-upMake the following quotes from Drucker less formal:There is no substitute for leadership.Leadership must be learned and can be

46、 learned.Leadership is of utmost importance.We/You cant find any substitute for leadership.We must learn leadership and we can learn it.Leadership is very important.第40页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText B NandosCritical thinking and readingSpeaking第41页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText B Critical reading and thinkin

47、gBrief introduction to Nandos History of NandosCurrent developmentAwardsNandos leadership style第42页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText B Critical reading and thinkingBrief introduction to Nandos Nandos leadership styleNandos has an interesting approach to leadership.Instead of making all decisions from the to

48、p,local management is allowed quite some flexibility.第43页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText B Critical reading and thinkingText analysisWhat is behind this remarkable set of achievements?a unique culture a set of fundamental values Ways of doing things第44页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText B Critical reading and thin

49、kingText analysisWhich of the following are central decisions?1.the five core values of pride,passion,courage,integrity,and family 2.menu3.interior decoration of stores and music selection4.quality control5.recruitment and selection6.forms of local community involvement7.branding8.corporate social r

50、esponsibility 9.employee training and motivation10.store profitabilityKey:1 2 4 7 8第45页/共67页Unit 4LeadershipText B Critical reading and thinkingText analysisFind out specifics of Nandos people management policiesIn-house training programsTitles used to address peoplePromotion policiesTraining and de