The beginning of the chapter 7 on Leadership in the textbook talks about the thousands of available textual materials (books, articles, etc.) on the topic, but there still exists a great difficulty in translating the essence of leadership purely by means of language to a beginner. This is probably an inherent problem with communicating leadership principles without giving the student the experience of what it means to be in the leadership role.
To clarify what I mean: I once attended a talk on managing in a leadership role, and asked the speaker a question about how one can understand the "boundaries" of what it means to be authoritative as a leader. The leader must be willing to let go of his/her authority in certain contexts - how does the leader know when to be authoritative and when to relax it? After a lot of hand-waving, the speaker finally said, "It comes from experience". Evidently, it is not easy to explain what it means to be a leader to a student who has no practical experience on the subject.
It's like the old catch-22: you need experience to get the job, but you need the job to gain experience!
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You bring up a very important point. Although I agree that you need some experience to be a leader. I also believe if you are being trained to be a leader, then the training is valuable and each actual leadership quality experience should bring you more validity and require less quantitative experience.
I have been working for a leader that fails to allow his upper management "lead". Everything needs to run through the person at the top. It has become so inefficient that projects are sometimes delayed because of his review. Needless to say, less creativity is promoted unless it comes from the top.
As a true leader, you need to have vision and find those around you that want to make the organization a better place. You need to let them have ownership and have them experience the satisfaction of forging new avenues.
You bring up an interesting point. It's similar in a way to target shooting. My brother was really into shooting a while back and there was an old timer who was very consistent. His gun sights were off, but he often had high scores. He explained that experience shooting is important... but experience shooting his particular gun lets him compensate for the errors and shoot straight. Anyone else who picked up his gun would have trouble hitting the target, regardless of their skill level.
This is similar to management when thinking of a group as part of an organism. Each is different, and it takes experience to know how to best use a group's skills in it's environmental context to succeed. While theory is a very solid base and can be extremely valuable knowledge, there's no substitution for real-world experience.
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