Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Ultimate Secret Sauce to Effective Leadership?

As I was reading through the first chapter of both textbooks over the labor day weekend, I couldn't help but recognize the "eerily" similar concept of multiframe thinking despite the differing focus on individual behavior versus organizational behavior.  In Bolman and Deal's book, the authors refers to the idea of multifram thinking for understanding organizations and introduces the overview of the four-frame model, which includes structural, human resource, political and symbolic frames.  Suprisingly, in DDA's texbook, the authors also praise the ability to uitilize more different angles and lenses to assess organizational behavior and specifically cite psychological, sociological, anthropological, or political standpoint (pg. 12). These four lenses can be almost readily aligned with the frame models shared by Bolman and Dean.  I htought it was interesting how two different starting points on a study of leadership and management may actually lead us into the same direction.   Lastly, I really aprpeciated the "artistry" aspect of leadership in Bolman and Dean's book.  This was a very refreshing perspective: How we can incorporate the artist's ability to engage with reality in a new and innovative way into our management and leadership environment.  I actually tried attending the "free" MOMA showing last Friday afternoon, only to be discouraged by a winding line of tourists around the block.  Perhaps I should have stuck around to improve my leadership of all things.  Hope the rest of class enjoyed an excellent three day weekend.

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