David L. Hanson cited and added:
>> So if you want to
>> increase the amount of transformational leadership in an organisation
>> start by training the managers in how to use open, probes and
>> reflective questions.
> This would be consistent with the Socratic method of teaching. This
> method "draws out" the experience from another, often, experience that
> the "student" did not know he or she had. This method clearly
> transforms the interactions.
Sokrates, Jesus, Gandhi and also Hitler or Stalin were transformational
leaders. I think the process is not so much "drawing out" the experience
from another but assigning meaning to the experiences. If a new meaning is
created and able to be stabilized by creating new experience in the same
new frame, than a transformation has taken place.
Is there anybody in the list who really wants to be a transformational
leader? And if so, why? Surely you have to know first, in which direction
the transformation should go. I feel very uncomfortable with the idea of
being a transformational leader having the end of above mentioned leaders
in mind.
Organisations are also political systems with interests, conflicts and
power. Some responsible persons in organisations direct successfully
their very dark sides and also the mechanistic view of an organisation as
a machine by F. Taylor clearly transformed the interactions.
Just some thoughts.
Winfried
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