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Chivandi, Zimbabwe
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Why is the Commanding Leadership Style Still Abundant?
The commanding leadership style demotivates workers. And even if it worsens the employer ↔ employee relationships, and even if workers will not produce the best results under this type of leadership style, unfortunately it seems this style is still dominating professional institutions. Makes me wonder, why is it still so omnipresent?
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Jose Luis Roces
Professor, Argentina
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What's Behind Commanding Leadership Style Behind this leadership style is a mental model focus on CONTROL.
As soon as the level of consciousness of a leader of manager has developed, a mental model appears focusing on LEARNING, which is better in many situations. Because it allows the workers to reach their full potential.
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Stuart Langridge
Manager, United Kingdom
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Commanding Leadership Style The commanding leadership style is about managers that are unable to encourage or motivate staff to fulfil their best potential because they have set their own designs on a career path and are reluctant to challenge the processes that are in place.
Empowerment is used as a buzz word, but actually means partial empowerment.
Commanding leaders do not want their staff thinking for themselves, they believe it undermines their position.
However, any forward thinking leader knows that you need to give people "room" to grow and develop. The key is to give staff a safe environment in which the needs of all can be met.
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Tamara Moore, United States
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Commanding Leadership and Underlying Fear Autocrats have underlying fear. By controlling everything in their world (and everyone elses) they falsely believe they are safe.
However real results consistently prove their vice grip on others fails to deliver what they want. This sets up a loop: more control, more hostility in reaction to perceived failure by others.
Control never succeeds. Hostility to improve others never succeeds.
This type of leader needs to work on their own subconscious beliefs and reactionary behaviors. When they resolve their own fears they no longer need to control or rage.
If the culture doesn't respect healthy leadership then their is no motivation for them to change. Period.
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John Spenceley, United Kingdom
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Why Commanding Leadership Style Controlling managers are not appointed by their subordinates, but by people who are looking for people who can promise delivery.
Those who have the stick their necks out will spend a lot of their time keeping people above them happy rather than helping those working for them motivated. Since they don't know how to motivate or can't be bothered to understand the issue their staff have find it easier to shout. Just like someone in a foreign country trying to communicate in their home language.
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Glen T. Mashburn, United States
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Ego, Fear and Keeping Knowledge to Themselves There can be a complicated answer to this question. The persistence of "commanding leadership" often has to do with an individual "leader's" ego, the fear of letting go of absolute control or the fear of change.
It is said that knowledge is power. As a result, a great many people in positions of leadership (note that I did not call them leaders) attempt to keep information to themselves. What they fail to realize is that by empowering their employees and sharing information, they actually gain power and respect.
It has become far too costly for businesses to continue this practice. As societies change, so must leadership and management styles. People are often afraid to speak up for fear of retaliation and harassment. Eventually, the organization decays to a point of being out of business.
A real leader will share information and empower his or her employees.
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David Wilson
Manager, Canada
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When is a Commanding Leadership Style Required? When would you expect to see a commanding leadership style used? Are leaders properly trained? Or do they just react to situations based on their experience and emotions?
If our leaders of today have learned from the leaders of yesterday, what do you expect of our leaders of tomorrow.
Leaders need to be developed and schooled in a variety of leadership methods and techniques? Is it about letting go, fear and control, or is it about a lack of life-long learning?
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Dr. Luis De La Cruz
Professor, United States
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Command and Control a Necessary Evil! Organizational radical changes similar to those in GE during Jack Welch's tenure justify a top down approach as an expression of command and control leadership. According to John Seddon, leaders using a C&C style resist changing their frame of reference when loss of control is at risk when trust to delegate is not yet cemented.
Times of uncertainty keep C&C alive and well! Authoritative leaders ensure reforms and ground recovery in times of upheaval in which there is no time for consensus building. In the absence of a social contract and ubiquitous change how far should the boundaries of delegation and authority be?
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viv lopila
Canada
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When is a Commanding Leadership Style Required? When one is not asked to lead, but assumes leadership anywhere, one has many options of leadership style.
Usually the commanding one suites self-imposed leaders.
A chosen one should have passed the test of being able to utilize all the styles available, not be a single piston performer.
All leadership styles should be situationally applied to meet a certain conditions to yield needed or expected results. The situation in this case is more important because it generally invokes the style or approach to utilize the resources to achieve results.
Styles of leadership should be taken as tools. Each one is to be used for a specific intended outcome. Leadership is an independent discipline for independent minds keen to create environments of independent thought.
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kamholtz
United States
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Reasons for Commanding Leadership Style This style has its place in management. General para military and military organizations will utilize this method most often.
The problem arrives from the weak leader who relies on it to motivate and get 'positive' results from employees. The employees begin to produce but lose their sense of initiative, personal drives, desire to be involved in the improvement processes for the good of the company (ultimately their own), which becomes mired in fear, bureaucracy and this teds to perpetuate to new hires and to those moving through career ladder.
Power, ego, narcissistic, selfish and emotionally immature people who can only rely on buster and loudness and fear mongering for results. Results are not always negative. The effect of the style is self defeating and costly to the bottom line. It is harmful to employees, in a general way.
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Gustavsson, Netherlands
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Commanding Leadership Style Suggests Certainty to Public Besides analyzing personal characteristics such as a leader's mental model, I think it is important to have a look at investors' expectations.
Although people like us seem to appreciate more human-ce...
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JACK COOK
Consultant, United States
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Why the Commanding Leadership Still Exist.. Command leadership still exists for the same reason the ancients carved idols--fear of the future.
Also a critical mass of workers/people still want someone else to step up and take charge of chaos....
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Garth Nowland-Foreman, New Zealand
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Command Leader Style is Male Dominated It's a male dominated model.
But I think its also a factor of paying leaders too much. If one person gets paid 10-100 times the salary of a front-line worker, then surely they have to contribute so m...
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Dilip Khanal
CEO, Nepal
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Commanding Leadership can be Necessary The commanding leadership might not be bad in many cases. A leader has to lead the team for achieving the goal. Some types of goals demand for commanding leadership.
An organization of rebellious pe...
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Jesper Jensen, United States
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People Without Leadership Skills With 14 years of experience as an officer in the air force I have seen my share of commanding leadership styles and have found the people utilizing this style in situations other than for operations a...
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Don Jayakody, Sri Lanka
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Reasons for Commanding Leadership Commanding leaders try to hold on to power rather than believing in connecting with and supporting others....
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GS RADJOU
CEO, France
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Special Circumstances such as a Crisis In time of crisis people need to have clear directions and leaders with a hand on the running of the organization.
Long-term vision is then not enough - the leader needs to carry these small steps d...
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Deb Bynum, United States
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Leaders are Role Models Effective leadership skills come from a combination of experience and education along with the ability to communicate with people. It may sound trite (Ed: ~ like a cliche), but an effective leader rol...
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jim morse
Project Manager, United States
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Why Commanding Persona.. The leader is accountable and visable..
2nd... Look and understand the nature of "power'... It is essential.. And dangerious...
I am glad we have so many 'good' leaders given stress, responsibilit...
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John Spenceley, United Kingdom
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Do Nice Guys - and Gals - Really Finish Last? Do nice guys finish last, and get paid less?
Some new research has tested this nice guy hypothesis, with somewhat surprising results. A recent study, "Do nice guys-and gals-really finish last," by Be...
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P Bhaskaran
Manager, India
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Commanding Style Organisation Head This kind of commanding leadership style will not work for long and will not produce the best results. It deflates peoples motivation and fuels the commanding persons ego thereby makes the commanding ...
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selven
Student (University), Mauritius
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Dealing with Commanding Leader Style. Solution I highly believe that commanding leadership styles is still present due to the use of traditional appraisal systems in which managers are typically reviewed by higher levels only.
When you introduce...
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John Spenceley, United Kingdom
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Why do Commanding Styles Win Top Jobs Just as a stage is designed by sexual selection for battle with sexual rivals and a peacock is designed for seduction, so a man’s psychology is designed to do things that put his survival at risk but ...
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Nicolas Stampf
Project Manager, France
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Lack of Humility + Position of Power For me, it boils down to two things: a lack of humility making a manager believing his idea is right and a position of power that easily and quickly enables to put his idea to work.
And if the idea ...
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Sven T. Berg
CxO / Board, United States
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Command and Control is not Leadership A 24+ year career in the military has taught me that the ability to command or control (C2) is not leadership. C2, at best, can garner compliance, but when the pressure is removed, so goes compliance....
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Radha Raj
India
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Commanding Style Leadership is Needed Whether it is demoralising or not, the fact that this style of leadership is continuing shows that followers require clear guidelines and time frames from the top, so that they can deliver.
Dependin...
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Kathleen A. Paris
Consultant, United States
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Why is Commanding Leadership Style Still So Prevalent? The commanding style is much easier, takes less skill than more collaborative, participative styles.
But it's a style most people have seen the most of, especially through schooling....
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John Spenceley, United Kingdom
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Commanding Leadership Source of Problems Great leaders achieve more than great managers I suspect.
Commanding managers often appoint people who aren't threats and whom they can blame when things go wrong.
Commanding managers are often on...
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edward sevume
Sweden
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No Room for Commanding Leadership in Sweden Very interesting topic and while reading the comments above I realize an ocean of cultural differences in management.
In Sweden, we believe in giving the worker educational tools concerning the task...
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Sally Rimmer
Project Manager, United Kingdom
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Micro Management > Demotivation Having recently changed from a manager who knew the value of delegation and allowed the people they were managing to do their jobs, a change to a micro manager has totally demotivated the team. This p...
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Dr. Luis De La Cruz
Professor, United States
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Contingent Micromanagement Fred Fiedler (1967) argued there is no one best way to lead. A leader is more effective if his or her style matches power position, situation, and context. Fiedler (1967) advanced the Contingency Mode...
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Sylvia Grant
Consultant, Australia
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Commanding Leadership and Discipline Commanding leadership is superfluous in an environment where people practice:
1) Personal discipline,
2) Thought discipline, and
3) Action discipline.
In other words, everyone takes responsibili...
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Francina Namgongo, Namibia
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The Near Extinct Commanding Leadership Style @Sally Rimmer: I have recently observed that the older generation born in the 60s, 50s and 40s are more in favour of the commanding leadership style.
Therefore with the passage of time, I believe tha...
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Dilip Khanal
CEO, Nepal
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It Won't Be Extinct @Francina Namgongo: I was born in 1956, yet I am considered as a very liberal leader among my colleagues.
Your hypothesis needs correction as commanding leadership will be decreasing in situations wh...
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edward sevume
Sweden
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Commanding Leadership Style and Birth Dates @francina namgongo: I too was born in the 60ies and I do not believe in a commanding leadership style. The notion that commanding leadership might be due to a certain generation is at best a wide gene...
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Sylvia Grant
Consultant, Australia
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Leadership Qualities In my experience the best leaders are those who:
1. Have the confidence to be humble and admit they are only human like everyone else.
2. Have the confidence to delegate in the true sense of the wor...
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Dilip Khanal
CEO, Nepal
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Turning Managers Into Leaders @Sylvia Grant: I fully agree with you on these preferable leadership qualities. In my opinion, we may not be able to cultivate all these qualities in managers at once. However, we can start with culti...
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Sally Rimmer
Project Manager, United Kingdom
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Micro Managers Becoming Extinct @Francina Namgongo: But I am one of those 'older' managers born in the 60s! Some of us are not such dinosaurs and are receptive to change and happy to move with the times....
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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3 Tips for Micromanagers Fisher et al. are sharing interesting findings from their research on how managers can better assist their employees (doing complex work).
Managers should probably not be completely "laissez-faire". ...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Why There's Still a Lot of Commanding Style Teams need to take effective action depending on the situation..That awareness of the situation and cohesive bonding among the team members is what is often missing nowadays… That is the reason I supp...
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Rob Thompson
Coach, United Kingdom
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Leadership is Relational and Layered Working in education in England I come across this paradigm of controller-leadership frequently. But let's not give controller leaders too much of a hard time. Whilst I agree that leadership capacity ...
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Frederic A Parker
Consultant, United States
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So-Called 'Commanding Leadership' in Military I have been directly involved in leadership development since 1972, including 20+ years as a US Marine officer. Many people have an inaccurate understanding of US Marine leaders, sergeants or officers...
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Norman Dragt
Netherlands
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I Hope I Understood you Correctly @Rob Thompson: Leadership takes grooming to become more than just control, but external influences like external control rules lead to controlling leaders. So if you want a leader that can use more th...
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Rob Thompson
Coach, United Kingdom
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I Am Empathathising! @Norman Dragt: I agree with you Norman - the problem with external discourses which impose metrics associated with performance is that they may realise controlling leadership styles in those leaders a...
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Molokanova
Professor, Ukraine
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Why the Commanding Leadership Still Exist? Since the last century, the traditional approach of management by instructions (MBI), which dominated until the middle of the last century, has been replaced by management by objectives (MBO), which i...
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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
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The Why for the Command-Tell Style So, why is the "command style" still abundant?
1. For negative reasons: It is simple and easy and requires no trained skill or awareness/concern for people. It can achieve required results (probably)...
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