...MANAGEMENT VS. LEADERSHIP Management vs. Leadership Leadership can be defined as the ability to direct the operations, activity, or performance of others. A leader is an individual who leads, guides or inspires others. A leader is someone who will take charge of a group or be vocal amongst others. However, to be a leader, one must not only have the ability to take charge or be vocal, but also must have the respect of others in the group, team, or organization. With leadership, perception is the better part of reality: Being a good leader may be difficult if followers do not perceive the individual as one (Altar 2006). A leader must know what his or her followers think. Most important leaders will say that leadership ability is the single most important personal attribute that one needs to succeed. Leadership has many facets to its name. Some of the most important leadership skills are communication and relationship building. One trait that is not characteristic of a good leader is dominance. When a leader tries to dictate, they will lose respect from others. A commanding style of leadership in not recommended, but rather have one who can win hearts and minds. In the present, many organizations are putting their employees through different leadership development programs. "Companies with effective processes for assessing individual leadership development needs were significantly more likely to have recorded an increase in sales and net income between 2003 and 2004" (Switzerland...
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...Gonzalez is outspoken like the wife of bath from Chaucer's tale. The wife of Bath spoke her mind wherever she went. She was the type to go after exactly what she wanted ,and never let a male undermine her. Just a bold character who believed in sexual liberation of woman and was very vocal about it just as Gonzalez is very vocal about getting some stricter gun control. Gonzalez being as outspoken is she is needed to achieve this goal of strict gun control. To gain supporters it is required to act as the voice of the people. Gonzalez who became active four days after the tragedy at her school wasted no time trying to bring change. She has gone face to face with the NRA spokesperson on TV, interviewed with Ellen DeGeneres, been on Cnn, and given multiple speeches. Lastly, she remind me of Arjuna from the Bhagavad Gita, he has the trait of listening. As small as being able to listen sounds, it is a crucial skill. Arjuna asked questions and listened to the responses in order to understand and fulfil his duty....
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...and a cute grin -the next member that knows martial arts besides Tao -In Korea shares the room with Lu Han and Kris -In China shares the room with Tao -neatest member in the group -is the funniest of the group -his ideal type of girl is hug able and can give comfort to others -the strongest member from EXO-M -likes to wear casual clothes -he’s apparently close to Super Junior’s Henry -he is the most organized and clean member from EXO-M -his favorite music genre are ballads -likes all types of dances -role model: Super Junior -favorite song from mini album MAMA: "MAMA" Name: Wu Fan 吴凡 Fan Name: Kris Height: 187 cm Birth: November 6, 1990 Blood Type: O Skills/Hobby: English, Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese, Basketball Leader and rapper from EXO-M NEWS ABOUT KRIS Facts: -apparently as a child Kris lived in Vancouver, Canada -very social and can talk to anyone -other trinees and team members of EXO think of him as a big brother -nationality Chinese -joined SM by global auditions in Canada in 2007 -enjoys reading book -self improvement and inspirational -he made an appearance on 2011 Girl Generations' VCR during tour concert -he was a captain of a basketball team in China when he was 15 year old -Kris looks better in person than on camera -has never undergo a plastic surgery -was supposed to be in EXO-K, but due to SM has a...
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...A leader should strive to push the people under him/her to be their best and push each other to become better team players. This all stems from a performance-based setting within a company such as sales, where competition pushes people to compete. Competition is not necessarily a negative element when it comes to personal and group performance because it actually pushes people to complete their best work. This is a situation where an emerging leader would have the opportunity to step up and help wherever he/she is called upon in order to resolve any conflicts of interest where they may arise. Having exceptional leadership qualities is one special trait that every owner/boss is looking for and, in many ways, can lead to a pay raise and new job opportunities for the...
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...Kyle Lorenzetti 4/18/2015 Professor Chevan MUS George Benson George Benson is one of the most popular male jazz guitarists in the United States. In his lifetime, he has received 20 Grammy nominations and has won 10 Grammy awards. George Benson is known for playing his Ibanez guitar and his method of playing, which uses a rest-stroke picking technique, is similar to players of gypsy jazz. His style of playing, tone and melody is incredible. He worked with many of the jazz greats, from Wes Montgomery, Jack McDuff, Miles David, Count Basie Orchestra, Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber. He performed at top places all over the world, and packed them all. His audiences were rich and poor, made up of all races, all religions and all nationalities. In fact, many of them had just one factor in common – they all loved him. George Benson is truly one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. George Benson was born on March 22, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was raised in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the eldest son of a family of six children. His mother was an aid at the nearby hospital and the family was very poor. George lived in a house without electricity until he was seven. The Hill District of Pittsburg was filled with jazz talent at the time. There were numerous jazz clubs all over the city and little George was surrounded by the sound. He showed talent at an early age. His parents taught him to sing and at the age of 4, he won a singing contest at a local 4th of July concert...
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...Taylor Rice History of Rock and Roll Mixtape Project February 25, 2016 Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson Hound Dog by Elvis Presley This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie Good Golly Miss Molly by Little Richard Unforgettable by Nat King Cole Miserlou by Dick Dale & the Del Tones Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & the Comets Surfin’ USA by Beach Boys Maybellene by Chuck Berry The Times They Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” (Crossroads) released in 1937. Robert Johnson is a legend, known as a figure in defining the foundation of the birth of Blues. His blues style was also very influential in the shaping of Rock and Roll. Before his young death at the young age of 27, he only ever recorded 29 of his compositions, which is very little material in comparison to other legends. His songs were seen as remarkable and inspiring since his music had a shockingly raw feel for the era. “Cross Road Blues” is in the blues genre, more specifically the Delta blues style. The song gives life to the legend of Robert Johnson who supposedly met the Devil at a crossroads outside of town and sold his sole in return for the Devil to tune his guitar and give him the talent to become a great musician. The song represents the blues genre of the era from the spiritual and religious roots, however, rather than using the usual saxophone as the lead instrument in a jazz song, he played the acoustic guitar. Woody Guthrie’s “This Land...
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...Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was a great influence for the black community. The efforts he made to become such a wonderful leader were incredible. Booker T. Washington was a man that started up from scratch. He grew up as a Black slave, who did not have many choices in life. He was born on April 5, 1856 in Virginia and he had a white father and a black mother. When he was still a child he went to work in a coal mine after the Emancipation Proclamation. When Booker was seventeen he went to Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute to work as a janitor. He would then use this job to help pay for tuition and attend the school. After all of the struggles and hard work that Booker T Washington went through in his life he ended up becoming a very influential speaker and great leader for the black community. Booker T. Washington had several different qualities that made him a great leader. The first quality is that he was very charismatic. People from all over would follow Booker and listen to what he had to say. He gained a lot of attention at his Atlanta Address of 1895 where he tried to get southern whites and black slaves to work together. The black slaves would listen to the political white views and in exchange get to work weekly and get a basic education. After this is when he became a main leader for African Americans and their movement while also drawing the attention of politicians and philanthropist. Pragmatism was another quality that Booker possessed. He always...
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...Real,” there are several strategies during rehearsal which can help better connect the speaker with the material and his/her charisma: (1) find and rehearse its essence, by running through the high-level structure of the speech in a short duration (learning what’s important and what’s not), (2) focus on the opening story, by providing a concise, compelling introduction which relates to the overall theme of the talk (paying attention to emotional language and signals, and paring down irrelevant details), (3) practice the big emotional stretch, by transitioning among the emotional spectrum from happy to sad (becoming more comfortable with big feelings, facial expressions, gestures, and motions), (4) babble to increase nonverbal skills, by delivering the essence speech with nonsense phrases, gestures, and body language to convey meaning (learning to demonstrate charisma and becoming comfortable with our emotional attitudes), (5) put on a persona, by taking the role of another person to allow the speaker to become much more expressive (finding someone who engages you imaginatively and emotionally), and (6) learn from the best, by watching Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream speech” and following his dramatic starts and endings. Once the speaker has practice several of these techniques, it is important to practice the entire speech in his/her personal style while retaining the expressiveness attained through the exercise. Only then can the speaker become much more powerful...
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...The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, nicknamed the Iron Lady, was Britain’s first female Prime Minister. Mrs. Thatcher challenged the image of females everywhere, while breaking the “glass ceiling” as the leader of the Conservative Party. This incredible Prime Minister managed to prove that a woman was capable of running an entire country during such a critical time in history. Margaret successfully remained in power for eleven years, from1979 to 1990. Even before serving as the first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher faced various challenges. While working as the Education Secretary, Thatcher was forced to make budget cuts, deeming herself one of the most hated politicians in Great Britain. Margaret’s political position left her feeling...
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...2009, U.S. companies spent an estimated $12 billion (24% of their overall training budgets) on leadership development programs and services. By any reasonable standard, what we are currently doing to grow and develop future leaders is not working. (Ashford, DeRue, 2010, para. 1) In August of 2011, the national unemployment rate in the United States was 9.1% or 14 million people without jobs (bls.gov, 2011). Despite an abundance of available workers, American businesses are finding it difficult to locate personnel who possess leadership abilities. Why are potential leaders hard to find? There are over 7,000 established American recruiting firms and over one million recruiters on LinkedIn and other professional network sites who are searching for candidates who they can place into vacant leadership positions. With 14 million unemployed workers seeking employment and over one million recruiters seeking to assist companies’ acquisition of leaders, why are 93% of American businesses facing or predicting to face performance losses due to leadership talent shortages? The most likely cause for this phenomenon is a lack of available personnel who are perceived as possessing the characteristics of an effective leader. What qualities do an effective leader exhibit? The subjective nature of this question makes it difficult to provide a definitive answer; however, a comparison of executive responses reveals three reoccurring answers, good communication skills, credibility, and the...
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...able to express his opinions of the outside world. In the 1950s, women were expected to be inferior to men and submiss to their needs. Jim’s step-mother challenges social norms by deviating from the idea of a submissive and obedient wife and instead being superior to her husband as well as the leader of her household. The 1950s was a period of change for many different minorities, including women. Women became more open and vocal about their desire for equal rights and became more independent during this time period. This is reflected in Jim’s step-mother’s actions. Jim, having been taught from birth that men were naturally superior to women, was extremely reluctant to accept his mother’s superiority. Because Jim’s image of the world was one of masculine superiority, he saw everything to be wrong with the reality of his household. He told his father several times that all he had to do was hit his step-mother one time and she would be “put in her place”. The reality of Jim’s world, like the enlightened person’s reality in the allegory, is the rising independence of women, while what Jim was taught by men before him are the shadows displayed to him on the cave wall. As a result of becoming a young adult and his father remarrying, Jim’s former reality was stripped away and replaced with one that was quite the opposite of what he was made to believe. This change in family structure caused Jim to see his father as less of a man. This lead to his violence and pursuit for the masculinity...
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...indicates control with employees who have been empowered to decide for themselves (Cameron, 1999). 4 hierarchies explained: Hierarchy – 1. Traditional approach to structure and control that flows from a strict chain of command. 2. For many years, considered the only effective way of organizing and is still a basic element of the vast majority of organizations. 3. Leaders are typically coordinators and organizers who keep a close eye on what is happening. Market – 1. Seeks control by looking outward with particular notice of the transactions cost. 2. Not focused solely on marketing but views transactions as exchanges of value. 3. Leaders are often hard-driving competitors to who seek to always deliver the goods. Clan - 1. Less of a focus on structure and control and a greater concern for flexibility. 2. People are driven through a shared goal and outcome. 3. Leaders act in a facilitative and supportive way. Adhocracy – 1. Greater independence and flexibility than the Clan which is necessary in a rapidly changing environment. 2. The adhocracy rapidly forms teams to face new challenges. 3. Leaders are innovative entrepreneurs who take calculated risks to make significant gains. Slide 3 – Comparison of current cultures of both the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera utilizing the Competing Values Framework: Utah Opera – Market – Currently, the Utah Opera would be classified as a...
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...of a learner to benefit from their classroom experiences. Students attend schools with hopes of being productive citizens of society. I like to think of students as future leaders of tomorrow! For the most part, students attend school because it is the law. A learning environment should have actively engaged students, who are eager to participate and show knowledge is being acquired on a daily basis. However, some students are bored and disengaged with academic struggles, due to non-active lessons. Certain life factors such as family problems, financial difficulties are all factors that distract and contribute to students disruptive behaviors. One of the most detrimental settings for a teacher in a class is classroom management. Classroom management is defined as being "the methods and strategies an educator uses to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to student success and learning" (McCreary, 2011). Disorderly student conduct is unfavorable to the entire academic process because they impede with the learning process of other classmates and cause teachers not to be able to instruct teachers most effectively. Teachers have a lot to deal with especially being clueless about the student’s home life and besides without even knowing what’s going on with their students at school, as well. Becoming a teacher is dignified, enviable and a challenging occupation. Being a teacher requires comprehension, endurance, understanding, and an aspiration to help others. Although...
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...to do a gospel music workshop. African American gospel music has been implemented with secular and non-African American elements. This has caused many individuals to wonder “what is gospel music?” This musical phenomenon has moved beyond the walls of the “black church” and includes many aspects (Wise 1). Gospel music can be defined from a cultural, spiritual, or musical perspective. There are underlying theological and spiritual principles Gospel music was a sacred folk music that originated out of slave songs, field hollers, Baptist lining hymns, and Negro spirituals and standard Protest hymns and many composed songs. The Center for Black Music Research in Chicago, IL classifies gospel music as African-American Protestant vocal music that...
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...Music production is such an interesting field in which to start a career. There are many different kinds of jobs to choose from. A record producer works within the music industry and oversees the recordings of an artist's music. A producer has many other roles as well like gathering ideas for the project, choosing songs and artists to include in it, and controlling and supervising the process through audio mixing and mastering. Many producers also take on responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts, and negotiations. There are two kinds of producers, each with different roles: executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee the budget and spending while music producers oversee the creation of the music itself. In lots of cases the music producer is also the musician or songwriter. Not only does a producer look over songwriting and necessary adjustments, but often gives suggestions to the mixing engineer too. The mixing engineer takes the recorded music and edits it with hardware to create a stereo type of mix. The mix includes all the individual voices and instruments then given further editing by a mastering engineer. The new generation of independent producers began forming their own record production companies, and in many cases they also established their own recording labels, signing deals that enabled the recordings they produced to be manufactured and distributed by a major record company. This usually took the form of a lease deal, in which...
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