Samenvatting LPPD
HC 1
Four perspectives on leadership:
1. Ethical/moral perspective
2. Relational perspective
3. Situational perspective
4. Behavioral perspective
Leadership from a followers’ perspective:
- H&T; understanding leadership comes from living it, being led, living with and
advising leaders, doing one’s own leading
- Leadership as a broad concept; it’s all around (instead of only the big leaders you
would think about)
Public leadership not only exercised by people who hold a political office or senior position in
a government organization also authors, academics, media people etc
3 types of public leaders (H&T)
1. Political
2. Administrative
3. Civic (very broad; activists, authors, academics etc)
Civic leaders sometimes become political (not without risk tho, can backfire)
Public leadership tool; commitment
Not just saying something, but also showing it in your behaviour
What is are the definitions?
Almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted
to define the concept
H&T definitions:
- Leadership = process in whereby intentionally influence is exercised over other
people to guide, structure and facilitate some common purpose or endeavour (Yukl)
- Public leadership = process of influencing people to think or act differently
concerning public issues from what they would otherwise have done
- Public leaders = people who exercise considerable influence over the way in which
communities deal with issues
Is public leadership actually something different than general leadership in a public domain?
(is assumed here but def be critical about it)
Key takeaways from defining leadership:
- How we define leadership matters for what we study
- Leadership is not (necessarily) linked to formal position
- Leadership is (also) an outcome of time and place
- We can study leadership as a cause or consequence
, Varieties in leadership; vectors
H&T
- Leading up
Leading towards the entity/group/person who is giving you the mandate to lead
yourself, getting the acceptance of them, eg in many cases people in a higher
hierarchical position than you, but for political leaders can also be the party/ their
electorates
- Leading down (/in)
Influencing, practicing your mandate, giving directives to the people working for this
person
- Leading out
Leading across the borders of the entity that you're leading, getting a
coalition/collaboration, can also be between departments within the same
organization for example, it's really about the entity you are leading
Leadership tools; attention, rhetoric, timing, patience, commitment, teaching reality
Eg Obama (Yes we can, yes we did) tool; rhetoric (using stylistic devices, not telling but
orating, knows what connects people etc)
Working with press is also leading out (but can also be
partly leading up)
Literature
H&T Chapter 1
Leadership as a cause or a consequence
H&T Chapter 2
Strategic triangle (Moore):
In performing the work to get the top triangle aligned, actors have
three directions (also called ‘vectors’) of influence & sets of
relationships that they can exert, shown in the bottom triangle.
Public leadership toolkit:
- Attention (quantitative as well as qualitative aspect)
- Rhetoric; words and physical presence, using ‘soft power’
(persuasion, inspiration & mobilization)
- Teaching reality; provoking people and systems to get them
thinking, reflecting, learning and ultimately being creative &
constructive about changing what they think, what they
value, what they do and how they operate
Can be risky if you’re not offering solutions
- Commitment; translating values into behaviour
- Timing & patience; realistic sense of time, timing and pacing
of their efforts
HC 1
Four perspectives on leadership:
1. Ethical/moral perspective
2. Relational perspective
3. Situational perspective
4. Behavioral perspective
Leadership from a followers’ perspective:
- H&T; understanding leadership comes from living it, being led, living with and
advising leaders, doing one’s own leading
- Leadership as a broad concept; it’s all around (instead of only the big leaders you
would think about)
Public leadership not only exercised by people who hold a political office or senior position in
a government organization also authors, academics, media people etc
3 types of public leaders (H&T)
1. Political
2. Administrative
3. Civic (very broad; activists, authors, academics etc)
Civic leaders sometimes become political (not without risk tho, can backfire)
Public leadership tool; commitment
Not just saying something, but also showing it in your behaviour
What is are the definitions?
Almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted
to define the concept
H&T definitions:
- Leadership = process in whereby intentionally influence is exercised over other
people to guide, structure and facilitate some common purpose or endeavour (Yukl)
- Public leadership = process of influencing people to think or act differently
concerning public issues from what they would otherwise have done
- Public leaders = people who exercise considerable influence over the way in which
communities deal with issues
Is public leadership actually something different than general leadership in a public domain?
(is assumed here but def be critical about it)
Key takeaways from defining leadership:
- How we define leadership matters for what we study
- Leadership is not (necessarily) linked to formal position
- Leadership is (also) an outcome of time and place
- We can study leadership as a cause or consequence
, Varieties in leadership; vectors
H&T
- Leading up
Leading towards the entity/group/person who is giving you the mandate to lead
yourself, getting the acceptance of them, eg in many cases people in a higher
hierarchical position than you, but for political leaders can also be the party/ their
electorates
- Leading down (/in)
Influencing, practicing your mandate, giving directives to the people working for this
person
- Leading out
Leading across the borders of the entity that you're leading, getting a
coalition/collaboration, can also be between departments within the same
organization for example, it's really about the entity you are leading
Leadership tools; attention, rhetoric, timing, patience, commitment, teaching reality
Eg Obama (Yes we can, yes we did) tool; rhetoric (using stylistic devices, not telling but
orating, knows what connects people etc)
Working with press is also leading out (but can also be
partly leading up)
Literature
H&T Chapter 1
Leadership as a cause or a consequence
H&T Chapter 2
Strategic triangle (Moore):
In performing the work to get the top triangle aligned, actors have
three directions (also called ‘vectors’) of influence & sets of
relationships that they can exert, shown in the bottom triangle.
Public leadership toolkit:
- Attention (quantitative as well as qualitative aspect)
- Rhetoric; words and physical presence, using ‘soft power’
(persuasion, inspiration & mobilization)
- Teaching reality; provoking people and systems to get them
thinking, reflecting, learning and ultimately being creative &
constructive about changing what they think, what they
value, what they do and how they operate
Can be risky if you’re not offering solutions
- Commitment; translating values into behaviour
- Timing & patience; realistic sense of time, timing and pacing
of their efforts
