{"id":111,"date":"2018-09-29T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/?p=111"},"modified":"2018-09-29T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:34:50","slug":"blog-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/2018\/09\/29\/blog-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Leadership<\/em> (2018), Northouse defines leadership as \u201ca process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal\u201d (p. 5). He coins this definition by incorporating five components including influence, process, power, group context, and goal attainment.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, if a leader does not have any followers, then they are not leading anyone. Evidently, leadership and followers are <em>not<\/em> mutually exclusive. In addition, if a leader cannot influence and motivate the group and their actions, there will not be unification towards the leader\u2019s vision. Therefore, change and movement will not be produced (Northouse, 2018: p. 12).<\/p>\n<p>I like the definition that Northouse used because it illustrates the stark differences between leadership and management. Management is authoritative. It focuses primarily on organizing, planning, and controlling others to achieve a specific outcome (Northouse, 2018: p. 12). In contrast, with leadership, followers choose to follow because they believe in the leader and the leader\u2019s vision to orchestrate change. I believe that leadership is about inspiration, whereas management is about power. Northouse also describes leadership as a process or an exchange: an interactive event between both parties (Northouse, 2018: p. 5). Conversely, management does not incorporate the dialogue and opinions of subordinates while making decisions. With management, it becomes more of an issue of power, order, and compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Have you personally experienced the stark differences between a leader and a manager? How did it impact the work\/change\/difference that you produced?<\/p>\n<p>Christina<\/p>\n<p>Northouse, P. G. (2018). <em>Leadership: theory and practice<\/em> (Eighth ed.). Thousand Oaks. Sage Publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Leadership (2018), Northouse defines leadership as \u201ca process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal\u201d (p. 5). He coins this definition by incorporating five components including influence, process, power, group context, and goal attainment. Theoretically, if a leader does not have any followers, then they are not leading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/2018\/09\/29\/blog-post-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog Post 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ccbeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}