1. Define a field in which you are interested, and is not the one used by your team. It can be pretty general such as politics or it can be specific such as Portland city politics.
2. List the person or organization that you see as the traditional leader in this field. They can be described by title or by name, for instance in the field of medicine, leaders can be described as doctors, hospitals, HMO’s or Dr. Seuss.
3. Who is a traditional follower or who are followers of this leader? Again, this can be a person’s title or a name or a group of people. You should only list one set of followers, because if you list several you may accidently make too many generalizations about the leader-follower relationship.
4. Describe what you believe is the most important traditional driver defines this leader-follower relationship. What is the most significant influence economically, socially, ecologically, politically, spiritually, etc.?
5. Then, try to define how the drivers in that field might change or are currently changing. Describe this as a new driver. These changes may be obvious, but many are not. Leaders of the future are often the ones who can perceive these changes and position themselves to lead before others.
6. Finally, try to predict or define who you feel is or will be the new leader(s) and follower(s) in that field based upon your predicted change in drivers. Of course, and it is common, even with changes in external drivers – the leader(s) or follower(s) may not change. This would be an indication of leadership that is aware of those external drivers and are successful in getting out ahead of the curve.
For extra credit:
Describe what you feel is the one, most prominent leadership style that is demonstrated by the traditional and new leaders in your example.
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