Management Chapter 8: Leadership and Power

Leadership vs Management

• A leader is future-directed, whereas a manager is task-oriented
• Key characteristics of effective leadership include being trustworthy, encouraging, honest, decisive, and communicable

MACH Score

• Legitimate power: based on position or title
• Reward power: based on ability to offer rewards
• Coercive power: based on ability to punish or withhold
• Expert power: based on expertise or knowledge
• Referent power: based on personal characteristics or charisma
• Personal power: distinction between personal and position power

Power and Leadership

• The question of how much power is necessary for effective leadership
• Importance of a good attitude, respect, and confidence in leadership
• Examples of leaders with charisma and power (e.g. Wolves of Wall Street)

Charismatic Leadership

• Confidence and power are key characteristics of charismatic leaders

Position Leadership

• Leadership based on position or title

Emotional Intelligence

• Awareness of others and emotional intelligence are important for effective leadership

Visual Agnosia and Optic Agnosia

• Two types of agnosia: visual and optic
• Visual agnosia: inability to recognize objects or people
• Optic agnosia: inability to recognize objects or people through visual cues

Streams of Visual Processing

• 2 broad streams of visual processing:
  • Ventral stream: layered structure from retina to STPa
  • Dorsal stream: from retina to parietal lobe

Ventral Stream

• Forward connections are feedback connections
• Neurons respond to features of increasing complexity from bottom to top
• Receptive field sizes and shift invariance increase from bottom to top
• Response latencies are very short
• Receptive fields are bigger at the bottom and narrower at the top

This quiz covers the basics of leadership, the differences between leaders and managers, types of power, and how to be an effective leader.