Putting Your Values to Work: Becoming the Leader Others Want to Follow

by Matthew R. Fairholm

Overview

Explains how anyone who learns the power of vision, voice, vectors, and values in the lives of those around them can be an outstanding leader.

The direct result of the author's experience in teaching leadership and conducting management training sessions for professional organizations, this book describes four fundamental ideas that explain how and why people are compelled to follow: Values, Vision, Vector, and Voice. Together, these concepts form the essence of leadership and inform the steps necessary to inspire others to follow. The accessible, easy-to-read chapters differentiate leadership from management, connect the views and choices of followers with the definition and essential tasks of leadership, and link the "Four Vs" to tried and true concepts in leadership theory while drawing contrasts to conventional management wisdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440830594
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/09/2013
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Matthew R. Fairholm, PhD, is associate professor in public administration and the W. O. Farber Center for Civic Leadership at the University of South Dakota.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 Introduction 1

Problems and Issues of Control 2

Four Leadership Streams and Organizational Practice 6

A Word on Position and Relationships 11

A Word on Power 13

The Four Vs Introduced 14

Points to Ponder 16

Quotables 16

Practical Activities 17

2 Values: Principles of Practice 19

The Value of Values 21

Morality and Techniques 23

Values Displacement: The Techniques 31

Principles Are Important 45

Points to Ponder 47

Quotables 48

Practical Activities 48

Notes 49

3 Vision: Pictures of Practice 51

Painting a Picture of Practice 51

A Word on Vision Statements 52

How to Have a Vision 54

Visions Arc Leader-Centric, but Follower-Focused 64

A Word on Inspiration 67

Stories: The Essence of Vision 70

Points to Ponder 76

Quotables 77

Practical Activities 77

Notes 77

4 Vectors: Pathways of Practice 79

A Word on "Misions" 80

Operationalizing Vision: The Pathways to Practice 81

The Link between Thinking and Doing 83

Points to Ponder 88

Quotables 89

Practical Activities 89

Notes 89

5 Voice: People of Practice 91

A Matter of Individual Choice 91

Imagine an Organization of Volunteers 93

A Reminder about Individual Choice 95

Sense of Self 103

To Act or Be Acted Upon: The Primacy of Agency 109

Points to Ponder 111

Quotables 111

Practical Activities 112

Notes 112

6 Strategic Thinking and Planning Process: Using the Four Vs 113

The STP Process 114

Putting It Together A Deployment Process and "Tool Box" 121

Where Docs Voice Fit In? 126

Making the Four Vs Real in Action 127

The End Results 128

Points to Ponder 129

Quotables 129

Practical Activities 129

7 Four Vs. Four 'Ems of Management, and Five Perspectives of Leadership 131

Management Root 131

Leadership Root 134

The Four 'Ems of Management 134

Influence and "Power With" 142

Evaluating Other People's Leadership: Perspectives of leadership and the Four Vs 145

Points to Ponder 149

Quotables 149

Practical Activities 150

Note 150

8 Conclusion 151

Measuring Success 152

A Moral Reminder 153

Where the Four Vs Take Us 157

Points to Ponder 160

Quotables 160

Practical Activities 161

Index 163