Prespectives of Creative Leadership

Theory

This chapter include theories, useful for this project, of leadership and creativity, imaginization. In addition, I try to discuss what are perspectives of leadership, how people understand it. As a result, this way should help me answer into problem formulation.

First of all, according to Matthew R. Fairholm, (Fairholm, 2004) there are two different approaches to studying leadership. First one and the most popular is a focus on the leader, suggesting that the best way to understand leadership is when we studying concrete individuals in concrete situation. In addition, supporters of this method mainly focus on the qualities, behaviours of those who state to be or are given the title of leader. (Fairholm, 2004). In other words, in this approach leadership is what leaders are or do, thus meaning of ledership acquire from the work of the leader. Hence, leaders define leadership.

The second approach notice that when there is studying individual leaders then we cannot get the general understanding of leadership. „This approach rejects the idea that leadership is a summation of the qualities, behaviors, or situational responses of individuals in a position of authority at the head of organizations. “ (Fairholm, page 579, 2004). Thus supporter of this approach agree that leadership is something bigger than leader - they agree that leadership includes all how we can define who leader may be. Therefore, the meaning of „leader“or who may be a leader depends on the leadership techniques presented, not post held. In this way, we can say that mostly we need pay attention in the leadership as a job in which leader have to accept responsibility for the wrong decisions, take the initiative to change situation, plan, organize the team ...

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... The fourth perspective – leadership in a trust culture. It is a little bit similar to third perspective, because there also focus on the shared values between leader and follower, but different is that here is even more based on trust founded on shared values. Hence, it underlines teams, mutual trust between leader and follower. The last perspective – whole-soul (spiritual) leadership. It buids also on the idea maintaining a culture of trust and pay attention on the whole-soul nature of in both our profesional and personal lives. These spiritual leaders the larger task to use their spirit (the soul, the heart, etc.). Also whole-soul leadership involve the components of personal and work life into absolut system which countinuous growth, development and self leadership in that way where leaders see others as whoke person with many of emotions, skills, knowledge, etc.