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- 1. Certain Trumpets The Nature of Leadership Michael Quinn LLS 475 Exercising Effective Leadership Spring 2010 Dr. Keith W. Krasemann
- 2. Agenda Group Exercise About Garry Wills Introduction of Certain Trumpets
- 3. Group Exercise Is there a difference between Leadership and Management? Take 12 subject words from sheet of paper. Place the appropriate description under the column for Leader or Manager For example, The Subject word Energy. Leader has passion. Manager has control.
- 4. Garry Wills
- 5. About Garry Wills Garry Wills, is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prizewinning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. Wills has also written penetrating studies of: George Washington Thomas Jefferson John Wayne Saint Paul
- 6. About Garry Wills Wills is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
- 7. Leadership consists of A Leader Shared Goal Followers
- 8. Leadership The followers do not submit to the person of the leader. They join him or her in pursuit of the goal The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.
- 9. The leader must be willing to get inside the minds of his or her followers. To sound certain trumpets does not mean just trumpeting ones own certitudes. It means sounding a specific call to specific people capable of response.
- 10. Manager Leader Being a skillful To become a leader, manager does not make one must find the right one a leader. followers and the right goal.
- 11. Franklin Roosevelt Electoral Leader
- 12. Franklin Roosevelt Electoral Leader He did not prevail by ignoring peoples demands. He anticipated those demands A popular leader must be sensitive to the followers reactions and must know when he or she is losing the audience. Roosevelt refused to let society dictate the terms on which polios live. Roosevelt wanted his own way but he knew that the way to get it was not to impose it. By the time he got his way, it turned out to be the way of many other followers as well.
- 13. Adlai Stevenson Electoral Antitype
- 14. Adlai Stevenson Electoral Antitype Stevenson had noble ideas as did Roosevelt. But, Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. Stevenson believed that a man should be above the pressures and multitude, telling people uncomfortable truths. Stevenson kept some distance from the crowd by indulging Inside comments that played to the intellectuals.
- 15. Eleanor Roosevelt Reform Leader
- 16. Eleanor Roosevelt Reform Leader Eleanor became an advocate of womens causes. She realized that she could do more because of her White House position. Eleanor became the driving force helping unemployed reclaim land. Eleanor found ways to dramatize grave injustices to African Americans. Human Rights. Helped the disadvantaged.
- 17. Nancy Reagan Reform Antitype
- 18. Nancy Reagan Reform Antitype Main concern seemed to be upgrading china used at banquets. JUST SAY NO Became an Individual choice. People are still inspired to follow Mrs. Roosevelts lead in civil rights, feminist movement and welfare causes. Who marches now to Mrs. Reagans Just Say No slogan?
- 19. Andrew Young Diplomatic Leader
- 20. Andrew Young Diplomatic Leader Join the civil rights movement idea of educating the poor black preachers he had met. Mr. Young believed that ALL channels of communication should be kept open. Became Ambassador to the United Nations. Young used his status to bring different people together losing some people's allegiance by this very openness, but forging enough of a following in enough places inside and outside America, to be a kind of permanent emissary for peace.
- 21. Clark Kerr Diplomatic Antitype
- 22. Clark Kerr Diplomatic Antitype Kerrs natural arena negotiation. However, he let negotiations drag on for six months. Free speech yet Kerr rejoiced in the close connection between the university and the government. Left no room for students. Unable and unwilling to get inside the minds of those who should have been followers. Sealed himself off from the students.
- 23. Ross Perot Business Leader
- 24. Ross Perot Business Leader Leadership that made his sales-service team willing to work weekends, travel at the drop of a hat. Perot was a homilist, a thinker in punchy slogans, a dramatist. Volunteers from his own firm undertook a dangerous mission to Iran.. Instilled pride in people. Quick to give credit to others.
- 25. Roger Smith - Business Antitype
- 26. Roger Smith - Business Antitype Brilliant financial planner When Smith closed plants, he could not go before the public. Smith was impressed with Perot the firmness and commanding personality. Lacked the commitment of his followers that Perot had.
- 27. Carl Stotz Sports Leader
- 28. Carl Stotz Sports Leader Inventor of Little League baseball. Formulating his own vision and conveying it to others. Stotz was a purist he felt out of place with big corporations yet he was the best spokesman for Little League. Asked for other boys to play, other men to coach and umpire.
- 29. Kenesaw Mountain Landis Sports Antitype
- 30. Kenesaw Mountain Landis Sports Antitype Tyrant for the rules. Hard to really discover who Landis followers were versus Carl Stotz. Many obeyed him. In his own mind a judge dealing with criminals. No stand he took was reversible. Worked behind closed doors.
- 31. Conclusion Wills scorns the Dale Carnegie approach to leadership as it reduces leaders into mere expediters of the demands of followers and as such, actually results in one servicing rather than leading. Wills suggests to redirect studies to include artistic, religious, and intellectual leaders, as well as gender and racial categories. New approach where leader incorporates a dynamic analytical balance among leaders, followers, goals, and an all inclusive context.
- 32. Dr. King would, in any case, have been an impressive preacher, a respected pastor, pampered by his congregation a leader in that sense. But at a moment in history, he identified a different range of potential followers; lifted up his voice for them; was carried forward, by them, to goals he had not foreseen, but which he ended up pursuing with them.
- 33. How should one become a leader? By finding the right followers and the right goal. One of the two is no good without the other. And they must be right for you and for the historical moment.
- 34. Tell me who your admired leaders are, and you have bared your soul. Wills (p. 270)
- 35. How am I to become a leader? According to Wills, we also need to add... Leader to whom? = Followers Going where? = Goal
- 36. Various trumpets are always being sounded. Take your pick. We lack sufficient followers. That is always the real problem with leadership. Calls are always going down into the vastly deep; but what spirits will respond? (p. 22).
- 37. Leaders Antitype Franklin Roosevelt Adlai Stevenson Harriet Tubman Stephen A. Douglas Eleanor Roosevelt Nancy Reagan Andrew Young Clark Kerr Napoleon George McClellan King David Solomon Ross Perot Roger Smith John XXIII Celestine V George Washington Oliver Cromwell Socrates Ludwig Wittgenstein Mary Baker Eddy Phineas Parkhurst Quimby Carl Stotz Kenesaw Mountain Landis Martha Graham Madonna Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert Parris Moses Cesare Borgia Piero Soderini Dorothy Day Ammon Hennacy
- 38. Reference Wills, G (1994). Certain trumpets: The nature of leadership. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.