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The Can-Do Leader
In today’s highly competitive world, many organizations have found a need for leaders who play a dual role. These leaders are involved in both leading teams and people, and selectively getting involved in applying their expertise and doing some of the work. Professional service organizations are one of the most easily recognized types of organizations with this need, but there are other types of organizations where deep professional expertise is critical to the work. This requires the organization to grow and tap the professional competence of its people, including that of its leaders. How should leaders who need to lead, as well as get involved in selectively doing work, approach their responsibilities? To answer this question, we developed the concept of the Can-Do Leader in collaboration with Dr. Frank Satterthwaite, a professor of Organizational Leadership and past director of the MBA program at the Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School at Johnson & Wales University.
Can-Do leaders embrace a different mindset. They are fully engaged as both leaders and “situational doers” – selectively applying and leveraging their expertise and knowledge in highly productive, efficient ways. Can-Do Leaders advance their leadership agenda while also selectively performing their professional/ technical specialty. They know when it is appropriate to delegate and when it is appropriate to productively do what might otherwise be delegatable work. They know how to engage in doing without over-controlling, upsetting others or compromising their leadership responsibilities and, as a result, they maintain professional/ technical currency in their careers while also effectively leading their organizations.
More insight about The Can-Do Leader
1 - Bending the Iron Law of Managerial Delegation
2 - Too Much on Your Plate - Try Multi-Impacting
3 - Want to be On the Ball as a Leader - Think TPL
4 - To Unleash the Can-Do Spirit - Check their VITALS
5 - How Leaders Can Muster the POWERS to Succeed
6 - Overview of Can-Do Leadership
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