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Aahna Bachni MBA
Manager, India
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What Makes a Leader Effective or Not?
Please help me with this question: What makes a leader (whether in business or elsewhere) effective or not? Thank you.
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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How can a Leader be Effective? One good and seemingly simple answer to this question is: by creating resonance. Resonance comes from the Latin word resonare, meaning: "to resound". Effective leaders are attuned to other people's feelings and/or thoughts and are thus able to move them in the right / desired / effective direction.
Another way to answer this question is by saying: by adjusting their management style to the requirements of all circumstances at hand.
For some more information about creating resonance in certain circumstances and corresponding leadership styles, refer to the leadership styles knowledge center.
Another interesting view is by Maner who argued that effective leaders switch between dominance and prestige.
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John O. Dozier, Jr.
Coach, United States
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Effectiveness Defined by Clarifying a Leader's Main Responsibility 1. "The #1 responsibility of a leader is to execute the vision-mission of the organization. 70% of CEO's are releived of their duties due to the lack of execution of the vision-mission." ("Why CEO's Fail", Ram Charan, Fortune Magazine, June 1991)
2. "Effective, enduring and memorable leaders set a vision and use their authority to create an environment where people can contribute to the vision's success and flourish doing so. Leaders are environmentalists." (John Gardner)
3. There are a number of spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical attributes a leader must grow into in order to achieve the above "standards of a leader."
4. For me, the top of the list would be Emotional Intelligence. And this needs to be unpacked to discover the wide and deep things of the mind and heart of Good-to-Great leadership.
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Gerard Otten
Partner, Netherlands
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What Makes a Leader Effective (or Not?) A few words on effective - so the question is to cause an effect. Under different CIRCUMSTANCES different methods deliver a more of less "suitable" effect. In an emergency ward all present are trained for the purpose of the ward - saving lives. They all have roles and tasks. Usually there is one "leader" calling the shots. Until some other role has a really better plan or the "leader" asks for alternatives.
Quite different is the situation where a marketing team needs to define a campaign and the creative interaction of those present (or maybe even those not present) are needed for optimum result. Maybe no one has a clear picture of the desired outcome. Maybe there is not even a leader.
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richard lopez
Manager, United States
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Effective Leadership Effective leadership is being successful at getting employees to do what they don't want to do. Sometimes a leader gains this by listening to employees and developing trust, having empathy and understanding of others' perspectives.
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Jason Wallace
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Clarifying a Leader's Main Responsibility @John O. Dozier, Jr.: I feel that you nailed it, a leaders effectiveness should be measured against the vision/mission. The true test of a leader's effectiveness is their ability to change styles as needed with the vision/mission changes. There is no "cookie cutter" approach to leadership and the ability of a leader to adapt, even with team members is key in my opinion.
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Frederic A Parker
Consultant, United States
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Leadership is Service I am reminded of the motto of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst: "Serve to Lead." Style only deals with personality, service deals with character.
Any person who is not driven from an attitude of "What can I do to help?" is not really a leader. There is no way to fake that. Everyone knows the difference between power (authority) and leadership.
Jim Collins in Good to Great famously defined what he calls "Level 5 Leadership." Whereas many people look to the mirror for validation, a Level 5 Leader looks at the team or the group because their success is what matters. That success will carry the "leader" as well.
This means that there are many leaders in any organization who are not in "leadership" positions. They simply work everyday to serve the needs of their families, customers, groups, even their bosses.
I have heard it said that if you really want to know what is going on, make friends with the secretaries. They are often the real leaders. In the military they are the corporals and sergeants.
These "in the ranks" leaders respond to a vision of the group, whether stated or not, and inspire others around them to respond as well.
Leadership is service. Serve to Lead.
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Javier Elenes
Business Consultant, Mexico
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The Secret of an Effective Leader its Create a Pull Effect Among His Followers The acid test of a leader is wether he or she has followers. He will have followers if he generates Transcendental MotivAction (Motives for Action). Creating a PULL effect to a worthy vision.
For that, he needs to have 3 abilities:
1. The ability to foresee how his team can succeed in the future.
2. The ability to articulate a worthy vision.
3. The ability to communicate this vision as something that is worth to pursue.
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Molokanova
Professor, Ukraine
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Effective Leadership I like the phrase "A leader is one who accepts the challenges of the world and responds to them in a new way." However, the scale of leadership must be taken into account, because there are leaders of small groups, leaders of larger groups or regions and corporate and world leaders.
Regarding leadership styles, I like how Ichak Adizes divided the leaders into four groups: P, A, E and I. . All four groups of leaders are effective or efficient in their own way and in their own time. [Ichak Adizes 'Mastering Change']. Different leadership styles are needed depending on the circumstances. When we conceive a new project, we need E, when we analyze and plan, we need a leader of style A, when the stage of project implementation is in progress, we need someone who can work (P) and when the project is closed, a leader of the type I is especially needed. I have several publications on this topic. I continued to develop it after I met I. Adizes personally during his trainings in Kiev (Ukraine).
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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
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Effective Leaders Create Followers Without followers then, by definition, a person is not a "leader".
So, arguably, a leader's effectiveness can be determined by the number of and the commitment of, their followers.
Consider the effectiveness of leaders such as Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Trump. What made them effective?
• Offering a vision that a particular mindset wants to believe. [Particularly if it offers them specific personal rewards from the achieving of that vision or from the controlling of the journey towards that vision.]
• Promoting that what they believe is the only truth. [They may not actually believe this, it may be that it is merely a tool that they use to gain dominance, power, command and control for their own personal aggrandizement and status.]
• Displaying a charismatic [CHARacter IS MAgIC] personality.
• Ignoring the conventions, rules and laws that are obstacles to them and taking full advantage of the ones that support and assist them, as well as:
• Repeating lies, often enough, as if they were the truth so that they become accepted as "the truth".
Knowing that the behaviours of many people are forced because of laws and social conventions, they provoke people's real attitudes and beliefs [which are based in their personal/'tribal' 'us' rather than 'them' survival/dominance drive] and showing that, for many, civilised behaviour is only 'skin deep'.
• Controlling a 'power of enforcement', primarily from the totally committed believer-followers, that forces and coerces conformity to the leader's viewpoint.
Note that effective leaders may not be effective managers; as they pursue their target vision within their own perception of 'reality', focusing on what they want to believe and ignoring real world reality.
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George Kaimis
Manager, Cyprus
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What Makes a Leader Effective There are as many leadership theories as there are leaders. In answering what makes a a leader effective, I believe one needs to relate effectiveness to the specific business/organisation, mission/vis...
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