Quoting President Ricardo Azziz, Georgia Health Sciences University
Posted: December 7, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment“Starting from your current position is not transformative leadership,” Azziz said during an Aug. 23 discussion that launches his President’s Lecture Series. “We have to have imagination, the power to understand you can build a future without fully seeing the path.”
This statement resonates with me creatively, because I begin with action and the process of immersion. In my creation of self as a leaderly person, the process of creating itself is alive, changing and growing. There is no pre-determined strategy that cannot be deviated, to assume so would be to presume no learning or growth would take place in the process.
Transformational leadersh…
Posted: December 7, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentTransformational leadership is defined as a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders. Enacted in its authentic form, transformational leadership enhances the motivation, morale and performance of followers through a variety of mechanisms. These include connecting the follower’s sense of identity and self to the mission and the collective identity of the organization; being a role model for followers that inspires them; challenging followers to take greater ownership for their work, and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of followers, so the leader can align followers with tasks that optimize their performance.
Definition of Transformative Leadership from our most trusted source, Wikipedia
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