Seven Transformation Of Leadership By Rooke And Williams Summary

The “Seven Transformations of Leadership” written by Rooke and Williams talks about the different leadership style that one follows and how one can improve one’s leadership style or action logic in order to improve their ability to lead. However, in order to improve their ability to lead one need to first understand what type of a leader a person is. In this article the authors explains about the seven type of leadership style that one follows while being a leader. According to the authors “most developmental psychologist agrees that what differentiates leaders is not so much their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management. Rather, it’s their internal ‘action logic’-how they interpret their surroundings and react when their power of safety is challenged” (Rooke and Torbert 3). The authors further goes on to say that, only few of the leaders have tried to know what kind of leadership style they implement and what are their action logic, which is the most essential quality that makes a person a good leader. Only few leaders have understood their action logic and have explored in making attempts to change while there are many leaders who do not know their action logic which is one of the major reasons for being an ineffective leader.

In this survey often people were asked to complete the opening phrase of their understanding of a good leader. According to the survey done, it was founded out that the levels and performance of the leaders vary according to their action logic. The authors have explained the action logic which is the seven types of leadership style and states that every individual’s falls into one of these