12. The Diamond Model of Leadership
Concept
What’s YOUR mental map of leadership? Do you have one? Take a moment and draw out your current thinking about what leadership is. What are the key elements? How do they relate to each other? Take a clean sheet of paper and sketch out your current formed or fuzzy model of leadership. C’mon, give me your best shot! After you do yours, I will share mine. No cheating now. It doesn’t count if you say, “ah, I knew that” after the fact.
Leadership, I think, has several key components. These include personal characteristics of the leader, personal characteristics of the followers, something about the challenges the leader faces, something about the organizational context in which the leader is working, ...
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