Leadership By Kerry Drake Summary

This story is really about leadership and how leaders get subordinates to attain organizational goals. Kerry Drake uses an initiating structure to get subordinates to accomplish goals. Initiating structure is a type of leader behavior that describes the extent to which the leader is tasked oriented and directs subordinates work activities toward goal attainment. A task oriented leader is primarily motivated by accomplishment. Kerry displays this behavior and leadership style in the story when he is said to not care if you are a V. P. or sweeper, “if you work for him you will work.” Kerry displays characteristics of expert power and referent power in the story. Expert power stems from special knowledge of or skills in the task performed by subordinates.