{"id":9964,"date":"2016-10-28T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dminlgp.com\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:01:34","slug":"leading-with-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/leading-with-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading With Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As we continue our doctoral studies at George Fox, we learn many theories and definitions about leadership. What it is the leadership perspective? \u201cAs far as leadership studies go, it seems that more and more has been studied about less and less, to end up ironically with a group of researchers studying everything about nothing.\u201d Do we use the Bible as a guide for this ministry degree on leadership or do we rely on our personal biases of the numerous leadership resources? Earlier in the semester, we read that leadership revolves around \u201cgetting the right people on the bus\u201d (Jim Collins). However, Vries tells us that his objective for studying leadership \u201cis to bring the person back into the organization\u201d (p. XIX), which says that leadership involves a working relationship. Now this is interesting, should the people be on or off the bus. I just left a John Maxwell conference where he stated that \u201cGrowth is the only guarantee that tomorrow will get better.\u201d This tells me that even if I believe the right people are on the bus, I am forced to get them off the bus if they lack leadership development. In Hirschman\u2019s book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty,<\/em> he suggests that when customers are dissatisfied with a product, they can use their \u2018voice\u2019 to complain about it or choose to \u2018exit\u2019 to find the product somewhere else.<\/p>\n

\"OneAfter reading The Leadership Mystique<\/em>, I asked myself this question. Is it possible that our leadership problem results from CEOs treating leaders like products and resort to replacing people rather than developing them? Vries is clear that while some leaders are self-motivated to become productive, others struggle to improve their effectiveness. The term Cognitive Resource Theory <\/em>focuses on how leaders respond to stress based on the leader\u2019s intelligence and experience. Vries spoke on the clinical methodology in his approach, which I believe is essential in leadership. Imagine if Phil told his youth pastor (Kevin) he has one month to improve job performance or he will be fired. Does Kevin come to work and try to improve his job or does he start looking for a new job? \u00a0As leaders, it is our responsibility to create an environment that this safe (or risk-free). If the people we lead or the ones we want to lead feels threatened (daily), they will eventually become incapable of leading well.<\/p>\n

\"download\"I get it; we need emotional intelligence because it \u201chelps eliminate cognitive and emotional distortions, and helps individuals to recognize their feelings and use them more effectively\u201d (p. 26). However, when a leader\u2019s effectiveness diminishes, do we replace them as a consequence or do we replace ourselves for making a poor leadership decision in the first place? Vries provided a different perspective for me because it provided another way of seeing leadership. In the 21st<\/sup> century, \u201cmajor demographic shifts are taking place, including ever-growing urbanization and growth in what the West likes to term \u2018minority groups,\u2019\u201d (p. 164). In theory, leaders have the solution based on academics and experiences. However, there\u2019s a new trend where culture is now shaping how we engage people and how we lead our organizations. \u201cGlobal leaders must create multicultural organizational communities\u201d (p. 192) to experience effectiveness. Vries shows us that leadership relies on culture and a cognitive approach to leading well.<\/p>\n

Leadership is a journey, and on that journey, we need elasticity to stretch from theory to reality and tradition to the unconventional. We need emerging practices to remain relevant as we monitor the changes in the human behavior of the people we lead. Vries does not suggest replacing old leadership habits, but we should ignore the culture and cognitive shift of the people we lead in our organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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