Different than accidential leaders, innate leaders feel leadership as a tangible , palable thing. "They choose leadership, feeling entrusted with a mission and sensing they can carry it out. Their relationship with leadership is passionate and immediate." Henein , Morrisette
How can this perspective and "internal wiring" impact the way innates lead? Are there advantages and disadvantages to their potential approach?
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Q - How can this perspective and "internal wiring" impact the way innates lead?
A - Such leaders feel a compelling draw toward leadership roles. Not always positional sometimes the innate leadership drive manifests itself in the natural acceptance of responsibility. These leader types easily accept responsibility because they want to accomplish something they desire to steer teams toward a goal and objective. Usually they create the goals and objectives themselves by some insight of foresight.
Q - Are there advantages and disavantages to their potential approach?
A - The advantage is when you can capitalize on the leaders style and capacity to motivate others and move the business forward. You must understand that the innate leader is motivated by results and a realized feeling of accomplishment. They need to be a part of the building and creating and strive to do so by working with as many cross-functional team members as possible. Harnessing the innate leaders passion and working to mold it into the organizations objectives is key. It will take flexibility on both sides to fully reap the benefits.
The disadvantage is when the organization is slow to respond to the innate leaders efforts to lead. Culture plays a huge tole here. Many times a innate leader is elevated to a role where responsibility may be high but authority is low. This undermines the leaders ability to accomplish what is required and they can become frustrated and discouraged. Additional effort may be required of other managers and leaders in the organization to both attempt to transform and conform ideas, methods and practices in order to keep everyone on the same page and working toward the same goals. The innate leader may need to be counseled to enable them to effectively lead. The other organizational team members may need to be counseled in order to allow them to effectively follow. This two-way communication and learning approach to getting things done for mutual benefit can be a difficult animal to manage.
Jeff
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Erica Friedman
Social Media Optimizer, Publisher at ALC Publishing, President of Yuricon
Greater New York City Area
Most innate leaders do not set out to lead, they simply go their own way and people are compelled to follow. I've noticed this in my own endeavors and those of people who I respect.
Lead by doing, create the example and keep on going.
Cheers,
Erica Friedman
Yurikon LLC
Intelligent Business Promotion
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Jesse Osmun
Grantwriter/Grants Consultant looking for work in Internationally focused and community focused nonprofit agencies.
Greater New York City Area
The internal wiring you speak of comes from a sense of self-confidence and personal integrity that is ingrained in the very being of a leader. Often times, this "innate" ability is only discovered in times of great crisis. I think of Martin Luther King's letters which he wrote in prison. Kings sense of feeling entrusted led him to let himself be arrested, made low, jeered, yet it molded his conviction into an unshakable knowledge that what he was doing was in the best interest of all, not him. Unfortunately, many of today's leaders don't think this way any more, failing to take the needed risks because in reality, they lack confidence in the mission they purport to fight for.
http://thinkinguhuru.blogspot.com
George Wilson
Academic Development Officer : Community Engagement at Edinburgh Napier University
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Not sure this is a direct answer to your question, but some years ago I worked for WL Gore (as in "Gore-tex"). Their view was that a leader was easily defined - a leader is a person with followers, and if the followers stop following, they stop being leaders. Simple.
GW
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