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Leadership is an Art by Max De Pree

Leadership is an Art by Max De Pree. A presentation by Abdullah Alghamdi. Max De Pree. President of Herman Miller. 1983, Herman Miller chosen by Milton Moskowitz as one of the one hundred best companies to work for in America. DePree’sTheory of Leadership.

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Leadership is an Art by Max De Pree

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  1. Leadership is an ArtbyMax De Pree A presentation by Abdullah Alghamdi

  2. Max De Pree • President of Herman Miller. • 1983, Herman Miller chosen by Milton Moskowitz as one of the one hundred best companies to work for in America.

  3. DePree’sTheory of Leadership • A leader’s job is to understand the diversity of people’s gifts, talents, ideas, and skills. • The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts. • A leader is a person who • Signs of outstanding leadership appear in the followers.

  4. Leadership • Leaders need to recognize when another individual’s skills and gifts could do the job better than they can. • Leaders must be able to gracefully step down and follow the other person’s lead.

  5. Roving Leadership • Roving leaders are those who are there when we need them. • Roving leaders take charge, in varying degrees, in a lot of companies every day.

  6. Potential • Leaders need to allow space and freedom so employees can grow into their full potential.

  7. Covenants vs. Contracts • Covenants • Induces freedom. • Rests on shared commitment to ideas, issues, values, and goals. • Bring warmth, love, and personal chemistry. • Enables work to be fulfilling. • Contracts • Breaks down under the inevitable duress of conflict and change. • Cold and formal.

  8. Dilemmas • De Pree lists the worst thing that he must overcome is entropy – Entropy is everything has a tendency to deteriorate.

  9. Entropy • Some signs of Entropy • Leaders who seek to control rather than liberate • A loss of confidence in judgment, experience and wisdom • A tendency toward superficiality • A loss of respect for the English language

  10. References • De Pree, Max. The Art of Leadership New York : Doubleday, 1987.

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