Understanding Leadership Updated
Understanding Leadership Updated
What Succeeds?
Compiled
by
Prof. Rajiv Kumar
IIM Calcutta
Preliminaries
• What are we referring to?
– Influence of a person
– Toward a group/team reporting to her/him
– To achieve some commonly accepted goals
• Level of leadership: Superior-subordinate
relationship
Impact of Personality
• Traits differentiate leaders from non-leaders
• Most important traits in organizational setting
(government & military vs. business):
– Extraversion: 0.16 to 0.25
– Openness: 0.06 to 0.23
– Neuroticism: -0.23 to -0.15
– Conscientiousness: 0.17 to 0.05
• Leader emergence vs. effectiveness