Peter Drucker is regarded as the father of modern leadership. As part of the Drucker instritute they regularly refer to his work on management.
Drucker believed effective leadership rested on five basic components:
• Strategic planning by the leader as a foundation. The leader has to make decisions now to create a desired future.
• Business ethics and personal integrity as necessary conditions. If strategic planning was the foundation of leadership, ethics and personal integrity were necessary conditions for leadership effectiveness.
• Leadership as taught in the military as a baseline model. Drucker wrote, “The Army trains and develops more leaders than do all other institutions together — and with a lower casualty rate.”
• Correct perception and application of the psychological principles of motivation. The best way to motivate employees is to treat regular, paid, full-time staff as if they were volunteers.
• The marketing model as an effective general approach. By describing leadership as a marketing job, Drucker meant that leaders must know and understand those they wished to lead, and lead in away followers could relate to.
Drucker believed effective leadership rested on five basic components:
• Strategic planning by the leader as a foundation. The leader has to make decisions now to create a desired future.
• Business ethics and personal integrity as necessary conditions. If strategic planning was the foundation of leadership, ethics and personal integrity were necessary conditions for leadership effectiveness.
• Leadership as taught in the military as a baseline model. Drucker wrote, “The Army trains and develops more leaders than do all other institutions together — and with a lower casualty rate.”
• Correct perception and application of the psychological principles of motivation. The best way to motivate employees is to treat regular, paid, full-time staff as if they were volunteers.
• The marketing model as an effective general approach. By describing leadership as a marketing job, Drucker meant that leaders must know and understand those they wished to lead, and lead in away followers could relate to.
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