or each.Achieving commitment and accountabilityInspire. Hold people accountable by inducing feelings of guilt.Involve people. Use contracts, performance appraisal and key result areas.Value emphasisConcerned with what they are trying to build.How to build their contractual piece.ProblemsCreate problems.Solve them.PlanningLong range.Short to medium term.ResponsesAppreciate contrariness and people who argue.Like people who comform.RelationsEngender feelings of lave and hate. Create non-stable relationships.Tend to have more predictable relationships and do not create strong feelings.The author Warren Blank further explains leadership by shaping nine natural laws that make up leadership, and they are as follows (Blank 10):1.A leader has willing followers-allies.2.“Leadership” is a field of interaction – a relationship between leaders and followers-allies.3.Leadership occurs as an event.4.Leaders use influence beyond formal authority.5.Leaders operate outside the boundaries of organizationally defined procedures.6.Leadership involves risk and uncertainty.7.Not everyone will follow a leader’s initiative.8.Consciousness – information processing capacity – creates leadership. 9.Leadership is a self-referral process; leaders and followers process information from their own subjective, internal frame of reference. The first law of the Blank’s “Nine Laws of Leadership” answers a fundamental question; what does it mean to be a leader? To be a leader means to have followers. Even though some critics may argue that leaders possess specific traits or personality dimensions, as discussed later in the research, Warren Blank believes that the basic quality that differentiates leaders from non-leaders is having followers. The second law explains the interaction between the leader and the follower “Followers are allies who join the leader, and together they create the energy that drives the or...
