Culture and Defining The Role Of Leadership
Abstract
I believe a person can be taught to lead and manage but one can't be taught how to
effectively and successfully lead and manage. I don't believe the corporate culture of the
organization has to with it. I think leading and managing has to do with the individual person.
How that person is motivated, how that person sees him/herself. Can he/she lead
effectively or is managing the nitch that they have.
A Leader will effectively orchestrate change, create a vision, inspire people to follow the
vision and keep people focused towards an ideal future.
What is Culture?
I first want you to understand what culture is because to understand culture is to
understand the organization. According to Anthropologist James Sparely, culture is "the
acquired knowledge people use to interpret experience and generate behavior".
Culture can be interpreted in many ways such as national/ethnic culture, secondary or subgroup
culture, culture in the anthropological sense and the capital C culture.
The national/ ethnic culture is described as how one was raised as a child such as African
American culture or Chinese culture. This interpretation is a very narrow view because it is a
norm and it also raises challenges in our virtual team communication.
Secondary or sub-group culture is described as our social groups such as women's group
or golf group. Culture in the anthropological sense refers to behaviors one shares over ti ...