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=== Leadership Concept #1: Leadership as a Role === | === Leadership Concept #1: Leadership as a Role === | ||
In American culture, our first thought when we think about effective leaders are often associated with individuals at the tops of organizational hierarchies. Visualized as strong-willed and rugged, these people push themselves upward to command followers. Some highly collaborative leaders in history, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., may even be rewritten as powerful individuals without acknowledging the power that very leader vested in the people around them. | |||
An effective and brilliant military commander like Napoleon Bonaparte would probably make a terrible community volunteer leader. Portland NET is a '''''collaborative group.''''' As such, followers process leadership differently than a business, military, or paramilitary group does. In collaborative groups, leadership is best not approached as a magic quality invested in rare and forceful individuals. Instead, Team Leaders should think of leadership as a role that: | |||
* Requires a '''specific''' and '''acquired''' skillset; and, | |||
* Is '''equal''' to other roles in NET. | |||
