Public
Leadership
Academy
Be An Inspired Leader: By Using Your
Leadership Style, Skills, and Best Practices Brian Muir
The James Madison Group, Inc.
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(C) The James Madison Group Inc.
2004-16
“Make no small plans;
they have no magic to
stir men’s souls.”
--Daniel Burnham
“The major role of leadership is
to enlarge public
understanding.”
--James Madison
Picture by http://madison.thefreelibrary.com/
Leadership Styles
1. Pioneer—lead community toward long-term vision;
innovates to solve problems and create opportunities
2. Achiever—focus on short-term goals, tasks, projects, and
high-performance; provides frequent feedback
3. Unifier—includes others, resolves conflicts, builds
consensus; relies on gut feeling
4. Commander—uses position power and constant feedback to
influence others to do what they want done; great at crisis
management
5. Delegator—explains what needs to be done then trusts
people to figure out how to do it; empowers others
6. Organizer—uses data and reasoning to solve problems with
others; prioritizes tasks and creates processes
Strengths vs. Weaknesses
Focus 80% of your efforts developing your
strengths and 20% developing your weaker areas.
Don’t allow your strengths to become your
weaknesses!
Community Challenges and Trends:
-People feel less safe at work and at home and in world
-Provide new infrastructure for growth—2nd baby boom
-Motivate, train, & keep loyal employees—job-hoppers
-Save Main Street and downtown (big box and online)
-Strengthen the local economy so that our children don’t
have to move to the big city (brain/talent drain)
-A greater need for employees to balance their work with
their personal lives. (Gen-X, Millenial)
-An increased demand for public services.
--Boomers retiring
-Higher uncertainty in the global economy--tax base
-Higher expectations from the citizens and less financial
resources to meet those expectations
“Kennedy is too young,
intellectual, and not prepared
well for decision making in
crisis situations ... too
intelligent and too weak.”
--Kruschev
“I think a major act of
leadership right now, call it
a radical act, is to create
the places and processes
so people can actually learn
together, using our
experiences.”
--Meg Wheatley
“Many live to see such times, but that is
not for us to decide; all we have to decide
is what to do with the time that is given.”
--Gandolf, Lord of the Rings, J. R. Tolkien
“Management is being able to work within a
defined process and move it forward.
Leadership, on the other hand, consists in
the ability to take people and move them
forward . . . toward goals”
--Joseph M. Ivey, Five Critical Components of Leadership
Leadership focuses more on:
1) Creativity and innovation than status quo
2) Future and the long run than the short
run
3) Conceptual and big picture than how to
accomplish it
4) Effectiveness (doing right things) than
efficiency (doing things right)
5) Inspiring and changing people than
pleasing people
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell
them what to do and they will surprise you
with their ingenuity.”
--General George S. Patton
Effectiveness: The capability of, or
success in, achieving a goal.
Efficiency: Acting or producing with a
minimum of waste, expense, or
unnecessary effort.”
“Efficiency is doing things right;
effectiveness is doing the right things.”
--Peter Drucker
“Nothing is as worthless as doing
efficiently what should not be done at all.”
--Peter Drucker
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
“The alternative to vision is mediocrity—
or worse.”
--Neil J. Flinders, Leadership and Human Relations
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
2. Versatile Communicators
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
2. Versatile Communicators
3. Unifiers
“We talk about quality of products and
services. But what about the quality of
our relationships and the quality of our
communications and the quality of our
promises to each other.”
--Max Depree, The Art of Leadership
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
2. Versatile Communicators
3. Unifiers
4. Teachers
Teach best principles and
practices.
“I don’t have to make everything all better.”
--Gary and Joy Lund
“Leadership is the art of
getting someone else to do
what you want done
because he or she wants to
do it.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
2. Versatile Communicators
3. Unifiers
4. Teachers
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
2. Versatile Communicators
3. Unifiers
4. Teachers
5. Goal Achievers
SMART Goals Are:
S pecific
Measurable
A mbitious
R ealistic and
T imely
Bill Gates Says:
“I like pushing things to the edge.
That’s often where you find high
performance.”
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
2. Versatile Communicators
3. Unifiers
4. Teachers
5. Goal Achievers
6. Knowledgeable And Skilled
“As a general rule,
the most successful
man in life is the
man who has the
best information.”
--Winston Churchill
Inspired Leaders Are:
1. Visionaries
2. Versatile Communicators
3. Unifiers
4. Teachers
5. Goal Achievers
6. Knowledgeable And Skilled
7. Value-driven
“It is not abilities that show what we truly
are; it is our choices.”
--Dumbledore
Virtue: Industry
Precept:
“Lose no time. Be always employ’d in
something useful. Cut off all unnecessary
actions.”
--Benjamin Franklin
“Local governments are realizing that they will
not simply return to the status quo that existed
before the recession.”
--ICMA
“While every level of government has been
fiscally whipsawed by the Great Recession,
none has suffered more than cities and
counties.”
--Governing
Leadership & Management Best Practices:
1.  Effectiveness—are you doing the right things?
2.  Strategic Planning —the prelude to prioritybased budgeting.
3.  Return on investment—what’s your business
case?
4.  Performance Management —are you building
your people?
5.  Efficiency—continual process improvement
6.  Stakeholder value —how is your customer
service?
7.  Economic Development —the rising tide that
floats all boats.
5 Approaches to Economic
Development
1) Wait until they come, then build.
2) If you build it, they will come.
3) Assess, build, hope they come.
4) Assess, build, persuade them to come.
5) Please don’t come.
We like things the way they are.
(C) The James Madison Group Inc.
2015-16
To Leave Your Inspired
Legacy…
1) Create an effective vision for your
community.
2) Determine your strongest strength as a
leader and your weakest area.
3) Teach your employees and community
stakeholders how to be more innovative in
solving their own problems.
Were You Effective?
You know you’ve been significantly
influenced by an effective leader when after
that person leaves the community, their
dreams are still dreamed and being carried
out, their followers are still following, their
stories are still being told—they’ve become a
part of you and they’ve let you become a part
of them.