This is the Sunday reflection that I have been waiting to share with you for the past month. Hamish Brewer is my leadership and education hero and provides one of the clearest examples of our course topics that you will find.
Here are several wonderful YouTube videos that will give you an insight into Mr. Brewer, his mission, and the ways that he works with others to create a culture of excellence. Please watch the videos and reflect on this ONE question.
Which leadership theories from this week (Week 5) do you see at play in the videos and the ways that Mr. Brewer helps bring about change at his school? Feel free to reflect on several theories or pick 1-2 that you feel are the most obvious or meaningful to you.
- Beginning at Fred M. Lynn:
https://youtu.be/VKt9CslbVsg- TEDx Talk (after one year):
https://youtu.be/dIYzpNAOpj8- Unleash the Swarm:
https://youtu.be/iCXeY0uWqjM- TVNZ Story:
https://youtu.be/yi-GnOtSJ38Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience, Ninth Edition Leadership Enhancing the Lessons of Experience Ninth Edition Richard L. Hughes Robert C. Ginnett Gordon J. Curphy hug63268_FM_i-xvi.indd 1 25/12/17 4:23 pm LEADERSHIP: ENHANCING THE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE, NINTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121. Copyright © 2019 by McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Previous editions © 2015, 2012, and 2009. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education, including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 LCR/LCR 23 22 21 20 19 ISBN 978-1-259-96326-1 (bound edition) MHID 1-259-96326-8 (bound edition) ISBN 978-1-260-16765-8 (loose-leaf edition) MHID 1-260-16765-8 (loose-leaf edition) Portfolio Manager: Laura Hurst Spell Marketing Manager: Debbie Clare Content Project Managers: Rick Hecker and Rachel Townsend Buyer: Susan K. Culbertson Design: Matt Backhaus Content Licensing Specialist: Melisa Seegmiller Cover Image: ©Giovanni Rinaldi/Getty Images Compositor: MPS Limited All credits appearing on page or at the end of the book are considered to be an extension of the copyright page. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hughes, Richard L., 1946– author. | Ginnett, Robert C., author. | Curphy, Gordon J., author. Leadership: enhancing the lessons of experience / Richard L. Hughes, Robert C. Ginnett, Gordon J. Curphy. Ninth Edition. | New York: McGraw-Hill Education, [2018] LCCN 2017048123| ISBN 9781259963261 (acid-free paper) | ISBN 1259963268 (acid-free paper) LCSH: Leadership. LCC HM1261 .H84 2018 | DDC 303.3/4—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048123 The Internet addresses listed in the text were accurate at the time of publication. The inclusion of a website does not indicate an endorsement by the authors or McGraw-Hill Education, and McGraw-Hill Education does not guarantee the accuracy of the information presented at these sites. mheducation.com/highered hug63268_FM_i-xvi.indd 2 25/12/17 4:23 pm iii About the Authors Rich Hughes has served on the faculties of both the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and the U.S. Air Force Academy. CCL is an international organization devoted to behavioral science research and leadership education. He worked there with senior executives from all sectors in the areas of strategic leadership and organizational culture change. At the Air Force Academy he served for a decade as head of its Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership. He later served at the Academy as its Transformation Chair. In that capacity he worked with senior leaders across the Academy to help guide organizational transformation of the Academy in ways to ensure it is meeting its mission of producing leaders of character. He is a clinical psychologist and a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has an MA from the University of Texas and a PhD from the University of Wyoming. Robert Ginnett is an independent consultant specializing in the leadership of high- performance teams and organizations. He has worked with hundreds of for-profit organizations as well as NASA, the Defense and Central Intelligence Agencies, the National Security Agency, and the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force. Prior to working independently, Robert was a senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership and a tenured professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he also served as the director of leadership and counseling. Additionally, he served in nu- merous line and staff positions in the military, including leadership of an 875-man combat force and covert operations teams in the Vietnam War. He spent over 10 years working as a researcher for the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- tration, focusing his early work in aviation crew resource management, and later at the Kennedy Space Center in the post-Challenger period. Robert is an organiza- tional psychologist whose education includes a master of business administration degree, a master of arts, a master of philosophy, and a PhD from Yale University. He now enjoys doing pro bono work with local fire and police departments and teaching leadership courses at the Gettysburg National Military Park. Gordy Curphy is a managing partner at Curphy Leadership Solutions and has been running his own consulting business since 2002. As a leadership consultant Gordy has worked with numerous Fortune 500 firms to deliver more than 2,500 executive assessments, 150 executive coaching programs, 200 team engagements, and 150 lead- ership training programs. He has also played a critical role in helping organizations formulate winning strategies, drive major change initiatives, and improve business results. Gordy has published numerous books and articles and presented extensively on such topics as business, community, school, military, and team leadership; the role of personality and intelligence in leadership; building high-performing teams; leading virtual teams; teams at the top; managerial incompetence; hug63268_FM_i-xvi.indd 3 25/12/17 4:23 pm iv About the Authors followership; on-boarding; succession planning; and employee engagement. Prior to starting his own firm Gordy spent a year as the vice president of institutional leader- ship at the Blandin Foundation, eight years as a vice president and general manager at Personnel Decisions International, and six years as a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has a BS from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a PhD in indus- trial and organizational psychology from the University of Minnesota. hug63268_FM_i-xvi.indd 4 25/12/17 4:23 pm v Foreword The first edition of this popular, widely used textbook was published in 1993, and the authors have continually upgraded it with each new edition including this one. In a sense, no new foreword is needed; many principles of leadership are time- less. For example, references to Shakespeare and Machiavelli need no updating. However, the authors have refreshed examples and anecdotes, and they have kept up with the contemporary research and writing of leadership experts. Unfortu- nately, many of the reasons why leaders fail have also proved timeless. Flawed strategies, indecisiveness, arrogance, the naked pursuit of power, inept followers, the inability to build teams, and societal changes have resulted in corrupt govern- ments, lost wars, failed businesses, repressive regimes around the globe, and sexual discrimination and/or harassment. These occurrences remind us that leadership can be used for selfless or selfish reasons, and it is up to those in charge to decide why they choose to lead. Such examples keep this book fresh and relevant; but the earlier foreword, reprinted here, still captures the tone, spirit, and achievements of these authors’ work. Often the only difference between chaos and a smoothly functioning operation is leadership; this book is about that difference. The authors are psychologists; therefore, the book has a distinctly psychological tone. You, as a reader, are going to be asked to think about leadership the way psy- chologists do. There is much here about psychological tests and surveys, about stud- ies done in psychological laboratories, and about psychological analyses of good (and poor) leadership. You will often run across common psychological concepts in these pages, such as personality, values, attitudes, perceptions, and self-esteem, plus some not-so-common “jargon-y” phrases like double-loop learning, expectancy theory, and perceived inequity. This is not the same kind of book that would be written by coaches, sales managers, economists, political scientists, or generals. Be not dismayed. Because these authors are also teachers with a good eye and ear for what students find interesting, they write clearly and cleanly, and they have also included a host of entertaining, stimulating snapshots of leadership: quotes, anecdotal Highlights, and personal glimpses from a wide range of intriguing peo- ple, each offered as an illustration of some scholarly point. Also, because the authors are, or have been at one time or another, together or singly, not only psychologists and teachers but also children, students, Boy Scouts, parents, professors (at the U.S. Air Force Academy), Air Force officers, pilots, church members, athletes, administrators, insatiable readers, and convivial racon- teurs, their stories and examples are drawn from a wide range of personal sources, and their anecdotes ring true. As psychologists and scholars, they have reviewed here a wide range of psycho- logical studies, other scientific inquiries, personal reflections of leaders, and philo- sophic writings on the topic of leadership. In distilling this material, they have drawn many practical conclusions useful for current and potential leaders. There hug63268_FM_i-xvi.indd 5 25/12/17 4:23 pm vi Foreword are suggestions here for goal setting, for running meetings, for negotiating, for man- aging conflict within groups, and for handling your own personal stress, to men- tion just a few. All leaders, no matter what their age and station, can find some useful tips here, ranging over subjects such as body language, keeping a journal, and how to relax under tension. In several ways the authors have tried to help you, the reader, feel what it would be like “to be in charge.” For example, they have posed quandaries such as the fol- lowing: You are in a leadership position with a budget provided by an outside fund- ing source. You believe strongly in, say, Topic A, and have taken a strong, visible public stance on that topic. The head of your funding source takes you aside and says, “We disagree with your stance on Topic A. Please tone down your public statements, or we will have to take another look at your budget for next year.” What would you do? Quit? Speak up and lose your budget? Tone down your public statements and feel dishonest? There’s no easy answer, and it’s not an un- usual situation for a leader to be in. Sooner or later, all leaders have to confront just how much outside interference they will tolerate in order to be able to carry out programs they believe in. The authors emphasize the value of experience in leadership development, a conclusion I thoroughly agree with. Virtually every leader who makes it to the top of whatever pyramid he or