Chapter 3: (Understanding why people follow)

Leaders are only as strong as the connections they make with each other in this constituency. Yet
we continue to focus on leaders and all but ignore their impact on, and the opinions of the people
they lead.
Warrant Buffet: A leader us someone who can get things done through other people.
Honesty, integrity, and respect are distinct contributions from the leaders in their lives. A serious
breach in honesty can destroy a sitting president, the CEO of a major corporation, a friendship,
or a marriage. Trust also increases speed and efficiency in the workplace.
Kofi annan says If you dont have relationship, you start from zero each time.
Best buys Brad Anderson described trust as The most cherished and valuable commodity in a
work environment.
His key to building trust is being authentic respect, integrity and honesty are the outcomes of
strong relationships built on trust.
Compassion constitutes caring, friendship, happiness and love were other frequently mentioned
words followers used. When asked what leaders contribute to their lives. My supervisor or
someone at work, seems to care about me as a person and we found that people who agree with
this statement. 1) A significantly more likely to stay with their organizations. 2) Have much more
engaged customers. 3) are substantially more productive. 4) Produce more profitability for
organization.
Mervyn Davies says leader must have a positive bias became employees simply dont want to
follow negative people around. He initiated several programs aimed at helping employees boost
their overall well-being.
Leaders should provide solid foundation like security, strength, support and peace. Security of
job is more important for employees. Ritz carlton, president simon, cooper,follower need to have
a basic sense of confidence above where their career is headed and how the organization is
doing financially.
Followers want stability in the moment and hope for the future, companies should make its
employees enthusiastic about future. When there is no hope, people will lose confidence,
disengage, and often feel helpless. one should think about the future, it plays a vital role in
creating hope and optimism.
Whenever, leader spot an opportunity they reinvest in their strengths. Wendy kopp kept on
achieving, just as brad Anderson continued to paint new pictures of the future. Standard
chartered chairman Mervyn Davis understands that the only way to have a broad impact is to
create a network of strong leaders that begins to grow on its own. This is the reason, why most
extraordinary leaders do not see personal success as an end in itself. They realize that their
impact on this world rests in the hands of those who follow.
Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now. But
instead what continues to grow lone after you are gone.
Organizational design plays a crucial role in organizational success as it is mandatory to have a plan or
a sketch for any organizational implementation. With equal weights of priority, the main inputs for
organizational design are organizational environment, strategy, technology and human resources. These
inputs are like building blocks for concrete output required for the better performance of any organization.
Use of technology always helps the organization to cope up with current trend and make their entry into
the race. Strategy is a plan which describes the procedures or measures to be followed in step by step
manner to avoid the unexpected interruptions. Human resources will help the organization for effective
use of resources. Organizational environment is the measure for how healthy
working environment and co-ordination between the employees and the management. By taking
all these factors in to account, we can understand the importance of organizational design for
organizational success. (original - 153 words)

Oluchi,
Thanks for adding your valuable thoughts on organizational design. organizational
design is an ideal tool for organizational success. The inputs to organizational design
will have equal priority and role to play for the success of organization. The first and very
important step in organizational design is organizational environment which helps to
understand the basic working environment and situations for the implementation of
strategy. Human resources also plays a crucial role in success of organization by the
effective use of available resources. Human resources works closely with employees by
conducting some activities and performance analysis on frequent basis, which helps
human resources to understand the capabilities and strengths of their employees.
(Response - 114 words)

Yes, we can see culture everywhere within an organization. In most of organizations, we will see a
diverse culture. Diverse culture can be defined as the way they think,feel and behave towards other co-
workers and towards the objective on which they are working. Culture in an organization helps
the organizations to keep up with socialization, empowerment and better performance of the objective.
Leaders can shape the organizational culture by means it will help the organization to utilize their diverse
resources up to optimal limits. It is not a easy task for leaders to work with diverse work groups in the
organization. Leader has to create structural way to make the groups to interact and collaborate to with
each other, to share their ideas. It is an important phase in decision making, so that they can come to
common conclusion.(Original - 140 words)
Oluchi,
Thanks for sharing your meaningful thoughts on organizational structure. As you have
mentioned, it is not a easy job for a leader to shape the organizational culture. On the
other hand, it is very crucial for an organizational development. Leader has to
counterpart all these challenges for the beneficiary of organization. For example, If we
consider our class, we have a diverse culture. When, we are making the teams with four
or members. The team members will have different thoughts and opinions to work on
the same objective. Every one in the team will act as leader, coming to common
conclusion because of diverse thoughts on team plan.This diverse thoughts help us to
brainstorm on team plan to produce our best performance. (Response- 126 words)