MAKING SENSE OF

LEADERSHIP
Exploring The Five Key Roles Used By Effective Leaders

AUTHOR:
Esther Cameron & Mike Green
Submitted to
Shri M.Chaitanya
Asst. Professor
Shri Thirumal reddy
Asst. Professor

Submitted by
M.Chaitanya Kumar
TPS-B06
PGDM

CONTENTS

1. Leading from the outside out

2. How to use this book
3. The five roles- an overview
4. Arriving at the five roles
5. The edgy catalyser
6. The visionary motivator
7. The measured connector
8. The tenacious implementer
9. The thoughtful architect
10. What roles do effective leaders use

About the author:

Esther Cameron is an experienced change consultant who has been collecting and
experimenting with approaches to change across different levels of organisational systems
for 20 years. She writes books and articles on change and leadership, and practices as a
change consultant and leadership coach. she is also skilled at working with emergence and
structure simultaneously in response to the client context.
Mike Green is the Director of Transitional Space, a Leadership & Change Coach,
Organisation Development Consultant & Author, and a Visiting Executive Fellow,
Leadership & Change, at Henley Business School

About the book :

This book is useful to encourage people who want to become a better
leaders to play a bit more, when you enter into a corporate world people begin to have a
great expectations on you in the strange and wonderful role. This book gives a brief
overview of five roles for those who want to become a good leader. This book divided into
five parts, the best way to approach this book is to read it in the order presented by author.
It elaborated the five roles in a lucid manner with pragmatic examples. These five roles will
play a key role to become a good leadership person. The book is based on questionnaire data
completed by 83 experienced managers.

Why I selected this book :

As the name of the book is MAKING SENSE OF
LEADERSHIP- Exploring the five key roles used by effective leaders. I thought it will be
interesting and useful for future job role. When I went through contents of the book , the
information is briefed and perfectly ordered .

Summary:
This book divided into five parts which deals with Introduction, Understanding the
five roles, The research, Expanding your role repertoire, Resources for developing others,
Edgy Catalyser:
This is the one of the five roles, he asks difficult and penetrating questions
and he spots dysfunction, resistance. He spends his time having fierce and frank
conversations in talking to people directly and on phone about analysing the facts
Visionary Motivator:

He energizes group of people and engage them in long vision and strong
enough for others to step into. He spends his time with friends, colleagues and groups talking
energetically and having dinner with people, he is required when moral, growth, risk taking
and bid transition are needed.
Measured Connector:
He establishes and reinforces few important simple roles. He also
connect people and agendas. He spends his time reaching out to stakeholders. He always
talks about purpose and he will let people know what the boundaries are? And he can bring
stake holders and partners together. He is needed when morale is low, change is complex and
culturally change is required
Tenacious Implementer:
Doggedly pursues the plan and holds people to account and leads by
driving a project to completion, he spends his time studying the plan and asking people
where they are on the plan if needed coaching people are re-planning. he calls teams together
to discuss progress. he deals with critical projects, technology led change which requires
compliance challenges
Thoughtful Architect:
He his principle architect and designer of strategies. He crafts
seemingly disparate ideas into a way forward. He observes the environment and creates an
organizing frame work. He stance his time thinking ,reading, sketching out designs and
talking one to one with trusted confidants. he is required when complex organizational
change, long range strategic change, difficult process change are needed.
Conclusion: The philosophy of this book is not that you only need to be positive, think
positive and act positive. This book philosophy is that deep within ourselves we have
untapped possibilities and talents by stepping into roles. We can expand our repertoire of
behaviour, actions and results.