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    Kotter's Point of View: Leading in the 21st Century 3

     
    June 1, 2000
    Energy-Unleashing Leadership
    Basic Management
    Basic
    Management
    Visionary Leadership
    Visionary Leadership
    Energy-Unleashing Leadership
    Energy-Unleashing Leadership
    Sets agendas by: Planning and budgeting Developing visions and strategies Helping people tap into their hopes and dreams
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    Organizes resources to accomplish agendas by: Creating structures, hiring processes, training, etc. Communicating visions and strategies Helping people tap into, and be drawn together in trust by, healthy (high integrity) human values
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    Executes by: Controlling, holding people accountable, problem solving Motivating with extrinsic and intrinsic rewards Helping people tap into their unlocked talent and energy
    Results: Creates very efficient systems which can offer a sense of stability and job security for employees, but without leadership can cope only with slow-moving change With competent management, can create organizations which are challenging for employees and which adapt very well to change, but not to turbulence With some competent management and visionary leadership, can create groups which find work meaningful and which produce astonishing change to which others must adapt

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