The Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid

Robert Blake and Jane Mouton took the idea of task versus relationship focus and turned it into a full-blown model of five leadership styles: their Leadership Grid.

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Introduction to Leadership
Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals
Course 11: Leadership
Section 2: Models of Leadership


Other videos in our Introduction to Leadership:
🎬 What is Transformational Leadership?    • What is Transformational Leadership?  
🎬 What is Visionary Leadership?    • What is Visionary Leadership?  
🎬 What is Charismatic Leadership?    • What is Charismatic Leadership?  
🎬 What is Authentic Leadership?    • What is Authentic Leadership?  
🎬 What is Servant Leadership?    • What is Servant Leadership?  


LESSON NOTES
In our video on Leadership Behaviors (   • Leadership Behaviors: Task and Relati...  ), we saw two dimensions of focus: task focus and relationship focus.

In 1964, Robert Blake and Jane Mouton published ‘The Managerial Grid’. They later renamed their central idea as the Leadership Grid.
Blake and Mouton’s Leadership Grid plots a leader's degree of task focus versus their person focus, and identifies five leadership styles. They scored each of these on a scale from 1 to 9.

1. Impoverished Management: Low Results-Low People (1,1)
2. Authority-Compliance Management: High Results-Low People (9,1)
3. Middle-of-the-Road Management: Medium Results-Medium People (5,5)
4. Country Club Management: High People-Low Results (1,9)
5. Team Management – High Production-High People (9,9)

In 1991, Blake added two further styles that he and his colleagues described as:
• 9+9 paternalism/maternalism
• Opportunism


RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
1. THinking about your own 'natural' style of leadership, where would you say it falls on the Leadership Grid - scoring 1 to 9 on each of concern for results and concern for people (2 MC CPD Points)
2. What improvements would you like to make to your leadership practice, as a result of this insight? (3 MC CPD Points)


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RECOMMENDED READING
There are a vast number of Leadership books - perhaps more than on any other management-related topic. And there is also a huge range represented in different lists of the best. This no-doubt reflects the different contexts for leadership.

So, any recommended reading list of leadership books must be particularly subjective. I have chosen those that made me think, and which are of particular value to managerial leaders: not sportspeople, military leaders, or CEOs. In no particular order:

📖 Leaders Eat Last
https://geni.us/ZIawP8Y
📖 Start with Why
https://geni.us/D8ZSs
📖 Humble Leadership
https://geni.us/KMuCl
📖 The Leadership Challenge
https://geni.us/nyQ3
📖 The New Leaders
https://geni.us/5ziIw
📖 Shackleton's Way
https://geni.us/Oicsj
📖 Why should Anyone be Led by You
https://geni.us/xugbBk1
📖 The Habit of Excellence
https://geni.us/VIz8Z

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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid
00:18 - Task focus vs Relationship focus
00:33 - Robert Blake and Jane Mouton: ‘The Managerial Grid’
00:44 - The Leadership Grid
01:03 - Concern for Results
01:21 - Concern for People
01:33 - Scoring leadership styles
01:50 - Impoverished Management
02:20 - Authority-Compliance Management
03:38 - Middle-of-the-Road Management
04:10 - Country Club Management
04:55 - Team Management
06:01 - Two more styles…
06:14 - 9+9 Paternalism/Maternalism
06:47 - Opportunism
07:19 - Assessment of the Blake and Mouton Leadership Grid

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