Interdependency Essay

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TITLE: THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE AUTHOR : STEPHEN R. COVEY 1. Discuss why ‘interdependency ‘is considered a vital factor for efficient leadership and effective teambuilding. Illustrate with examples. Practically in any type of organization there are multiple people working on multiple projects. The basic fact of human nature is that every person will have certain good or outstanding qualities and some drawbacks. Interdependency is to take advantage of every individual’s good qualities to multiply the effect of an individual by using collective wisdom and efforts. To bring out maximum output from the available resources it is must that the leader works on the principal of interdependency .As Stephan Covey quotes in this book ‘It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labour diligently for the salvation of masses’. A leader must be ready to forego his ego of ‘I know everything and my instructions to be followed’. We hold this truth as self-evident: our lives, work, and well-being are interdependent. Everything and everyone is — or can be — connected. This new reality challenges the traditional logic when it comes to leadership development. The interdependent companies have expanded from an exclusive focus on leader development, which is about character, competence, quantity of individuals in defined roles, to leadership development, which is the expansion of a collective’s shared beliefs and practices for creating direction, alignment, and commitment (DAC). Leadership development, in other words, targets the leadership culture of the organization. DAC, is produced by dependent, independent, or interdependent leadership cultures. * Direction presents the question: How will we decide where to go? * Alignment: How will we coordinate our work? * Commitment: How will we stay engaged and accountable?
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