Stan Kogut's article Effective Leadership: Legislative Leadership for Educators explains the challenge of legislative leadership in the public sector and how it differs from executive leadership:
"In 2005, Mr. Collins published a short monograph Good to Great and the Social Sector. He detailed how a public sector organization can become great through the fulfillment of its mission and making a distinctive impact in its community relative to organizational resources. A very valuable point in this monograph is his discussion of 'executive' versus 'legislative' leadership:
In executive leadership, the individual leader has enough concentrated power to simply make the right decision. In legislative leadership… no individual leader…has enough structural power to make the most important decisions by himself or herself. Legislative leadership relies more upon persuasion, political currency, and shared interests to create the conditions for the right decisions to happen."Legislative leadership is much more difficult, time consuming and challenging to accomplish than executive leadership. Jack Welch of General Electric didn’t often worry about building consensus from the ground up! Leaders in the public sector, on the other hand, understand that this is the only way we will be successful.
"So what type of communication is essential for legislative leadership?
- Be inclusive,
- willing to compromise—as long as it is not a central tenet of our organization
- seek common ground,
- be bridge builders, visionaries, and servant-leaders.
- focusing on our goal,
- determining whose support we need,
- planning how we go about securing support, and then
- driving for the goal."
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