...Characteristics of a Charismatic Leader Charismatic leaders are known to attract followers and inspire people to new heights (Basu). Attracting followers and inspiring people takes a certain type of personality or certain characteristics. People just don’t follow any single person. Something draws people in and once in these people can be inspired to do things. Some people, like Charles Manson, drew in followers and inspired them to murder; while some people, like Gandhi, drew in followers and inspired them to be better people. (Rosenberg, Charles Manson) (Rosenberg, Gandhi-Biography of Mahatma Gandhi) Manson and Gandhi had certain characteristics that drew people to them in the first place. These may have included maturity, communication skills, humility, and substance. Other traits include not just leading but being liked, care for others before you care for yourself, celebrate life and inspire enthusiasm, see the best in people and channel it, deal in hope and spread the goodies (Alain, 2011). Charismatic leaders do not necessarily have all of these traits but these would be what to look for when choosing a charismatic leader. Charismatic leaders need to be mature. This does not refer to age. This maturity is a buildup of wisdom over years through experience. This wisdom can be in business it can be in whatever are the person excels. Manson new how to draw in women and used that knowledge to start a cult. Communication is a key characteristic. Leaders must be able...
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...Matt Charismatic Leader A charismatic leader is one of the modern leadership styles in the changing world. This kind of leadership pertains to Martin Luther King Jr, who used his charm to inspire and motivate people to unite against an unfair system that segregated and belittled a whole group of people. While Martin Luther King Jr. fits a number of different leadership styles, but I have chosen him as my charismatic leader because of his ability to; gain trust from his followers through visible self-sacrifice, the passion and conviction with which he spoke, and his ability to reach goals as a whole. He showed concern for the well-being of all types of people and genuinely cared for their needs. He demonstrated his skills as a leader in many different ways, a few of them being: he created a comfortable and approachable atmosphere with the people he came in contact, by listening to people and making them feel that they had voice in the decision-making process, and by standing firm against a mindset that other races could be inferior to others. When he spoke o crowds, he was able to appeal to many different types, for example: He used biblical references to appeal to the religious, he used his academic intellect to appeal to the scholarly, and he used specific inhumane events in his speeches to establish, that there was a problem and it was still going on here and now, to appeal to the human emotions. There is no question that Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader that possessed...
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...the two characteristics that are the most important to forming ultra nationalism are, Charismatic leaders are important because without a charismatic leader nobody will follow. Hitler was renowned for his skills as a speaker he could get people excited and make them believe in his message, this is an important skill because people want to see strength and power as well as the ability to speak to his people on a personal level.Hitler started in bars having discussions over a pint or two pretty quickly he was emptying towns so people could hear him talk.His charisma filled stadiums his message wasn't good but his skills on the mike were.this all happened during a time of conflict and started a new time of conflict filling people's minds with...
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...Buddy learns how to play the system and succumbs to Mr. Gekko’s illegal trading practices and greed. Section II: Leadership Application Gordon Gekko is the main leader throughout most of the movie. As the main leader Gordon Gekko demonstrates leadership characteristics that are charismatic, confident, enthusiastic, tactful, bearing, and decisive. His leadership emerged when he demonstrated the ability to make solid decision rather quickly. Gordon Gekko said “the most valuable commodity is information” (Pressman & Stone, 1987). He used his analytical skills to evaluate the trends of struggling organizations and used that information to make risky and mostly successful decisions. His leadership also emerged when he began to use his power to have such a strong influence over Bud Fox to get the results he wanted. Mr. Gekko was able to communicate with people in a direct and effective manner. He was able to conduct and control his manners and his emotions up until the end. His appearance, his posture, and his mannerism reflected self-confidence and self-control. Beyond ordinary leadership, Gordon Gekko was a strategic leader because he was able think, act, and influence others to get what he needed to sustain his company’s competitive advantage and make money (Hughes & Beatty, 2005). As a strategic leader Gordon Gekko consistently scanned his...
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...charisma. Pretty much these attributes contributed significantly towards her referent power. Also worth mentioning was her legitimate power. She had risen through various ranks till she topped the organization. She had worked as a mere soldier, promoted to secretary levels, deputy manager and finally she became the overall manager. It is beyond doubt that she earned the position legally and rightfully thus recognized as our trailblazer. She possessed the required skills in her occupation with less supplementation making her self-sufficient. The source of her expert power was from the experience and skills she had accumulated over time.(Anderson.D, A. 1998) In addition, if you ever thought of giving the best out of you, Mrs. Desai was the leader to work with. She exercised performance appraisal in all domains and everybody if not everyone had the enthusiastic psyche to make the organization meet its goals. This netted her the reward power. Mrs. Desai exercised a number of power tactics to maintain her dignity and exercise authority. To begin with, she always encouraged consultation amongst us. She also consulted...
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...McEntire, Lauren E., and Tiffany Greene-Shortridge. "Recruiting and Selecting Leaders for Innovation: How to Find the Right Leader." Advances in Developing Human Resources (SAGE Publications) 13, no. 3 (2011): 266-278. Summary and analysis of the article The article discusses the issues and strategies in selecting effective organisational leaders and successors. It highlights the importance of the innovative organisational leaders and the challenges faced sourcing for them. The article provides detailed methods to recruit leaders such as behavioural psychological assessments, personorganisation fit assessments, behaviourally based interviews and innovation targeted succession planning. It also explores the benefits of new approaches such as social networking media and websites to find the best leaders available to the organisation and traditional ways such as mentoring programmes to develop potential leaders. The purpose of the article was to review the importance of organisational leaders and the process of selecting the most suitable one. It highlights why the process itself is very important and how it affects the outcome of the selection greatly. The authors depended greatly on other research papers and scholar journals as evidences to justify their choice of strategies. Most of the strategies presented were also echoed from other researchers and reporters. For example, the authors mentioned social networking medias and websites as tools that could assist in the recruitment...
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...Trying to analyze the notion of leadership through a real example, we will now investigate the enterprise I work for and its Managing Director in particular, being a leader of the enterprise, but also a representative of the local authority. The enterprise in question is Aitoliki Development Enterprise, the company I work for since 2006, which was established in 1994 with the title “Development Company Apodotias – Ofionias SA (ANETAPO SA)” for the better use of natural resources of Mountainous Nafpaktia. Nowadays Aitoliki Development Enterprise S.A. represents 13 Organisations of Local Authorities, 2 Agricultural Cooperative Unions, 1 Commercial and Small Industrial Union of Nafpaktia, 1 Organization of Cooperatives of Νafpaktia, 1 Nautical Association, the Local Municipality and Community Association of Aetoloakarnania, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Prefecture of Aetoloakarnania, the Technical Chamber of Greece, 1 fishermen association, 1 association of people with special needs and the Local Association of Solid Waste Management. It represents Local Authorities in the prefectures of Aetoloakarnania, Fokida and Evrytania and is considered a transrregional company (Regions of Sterea and Western Greece). The company intends in the rational utilization of natural resources of Aetolia, through activities that contribute in the creation of initiatives, programs and collaborations and point out the comparative advantages of the region, giving answers to the following...
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...Leadership Characteristics By Kayla Geiger 4/28/13 I admire the organizational leadership within the company that I am employed. I want to highlight on the last five years of Montana-Dakota Utilities before getting into detail about specific styles of leadership that I agree with. The company in the last 5 years has went through several major changes that displayed the importance of leadership. We have purchased other companies which eventually went through merger to be more streamlined. We have changed Presidents and Executive officials. All these changes have been completed with minimal loss and structure change. We have some very important statements that our leaders follow by. We are four brands that have become one utility. With Integrity, create superior shareholder value by expanding upon our existing expertise to be the supplier of choice in all of our markets while being a safe and great place to work. While utilizing existing expertise, safely provide value added products and services that exceed customer expectations. There is a lot of positive direction in those two statements. Our leadership is driven to provide the best and safest products that we can. When the company first started its merger in 2008, there were several changes announced in a short period of time. Some of these changes were people losing their jobs and others were department restructuring. The people involved in either change had some important movements coming...
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...(2010) posit that “there is a relationship between the level of environmental turbulence and forces for change”. This has placed hyper-competitive demands for organizational change where organizational leaders are faced with the experience and challenge of whether they have an option when it comes to change (Boston 2000). However; despite the importance for organizational change, Durant (1999) notes that 60% - 70% of all organizational change projects fail with tremendous cost implications to the organizations in resources, time, money, etc. This has given rise to growing concerns at this time when change has become a norm in the life of organizations as a strategy for competitiveness and sustainability in response to the business environment (Connor et al 2003). Durant (1999) posits that one of main reasons for failed organizational change projects is linked to the role of leaders in organizational change. It is no doubt that organizational change involves complex and challenging change processes; thus, the imperative role of leadership been noted as key in addressing the complex and challenging issues of organizational change (Kennedy 2000). Senior & Fleming (2006) in discussing the role of leadership in organizational change posits organizational leader as an agent of change shouldered with the responsibility of taking the initiatives and practical steps needed in bringing the desired change in the organization. This brings us to a very important question:...
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...personal stature, controlling access to information, not revealing real intents, building coalitions etc. Interplay between leadership, authority, influence and followers How organizational politics is related to leadership can be better understood from the fact that organizational leadership occurs in the context of groups, where followers are influenced by the leader to ensure their commitment and voluntary involvement towards predetermined outcomes. Political climate of an organization is impacted by a leader through treatment and use of authority under different settings which is clearly visible during the acts of decision making, setting agenda and interaction with others to mobilize support, inspire teams and individuals and recognize people. This interplay between leaders and their authority & influence over the followers set the tone for political climate in an organization. Understanding of organizations’ political systems - key to success Understanding of organizations’ political systems is absolutely essential for leadership to maneuver the company towards the goals. Internally grown leaders will have an advantage of knowledge of...
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...Pastor Shayne Michael Daughenbaugh Introduction to Youth Ministry May 1, 2014 YOUTH MINISTRY FINAL Many might ask, why is youth ministry important in the church? The answer to this question is very easy, and it is because youth are the leaders, makers, and team members of the future. They are energetic, mature and smart enough to help with a lot of things like, setting up for church, spreading the word of God to the community. It is also necessary because it helps to have important relationships between youth and the youth workers; and youth to youth themselves, it makes great friendships. Going back to the given scenario, of just moving to a new church and want get involved in their YM. When I first get there I have to first learn how things work there. Get to know the people that are already working with the youth if there is any and get to know the youth in the church. As I am observing how things work I need to be asking be keeping my self in check by regularly checking my motives and my heart. Making sure that on my side everything is good with my spiritual life and also I am in good terms with my family. After making sure that I am set and God has given me the go ahead sign. Then I will go and suggest some ideas to the youth leaders that are already trying to pursue the job. Now lets say this church is a Tanzanian church. I am more that 90% sure that there is no church out there that is doing youth ministry that has to do with relational ministry. I know this is the...
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...be able to support the unit’s mission no matter what it may be. The organizational mission could vary from unit level training, natural disaster assistance and go as far as combat. The first thing we as leaders need to take into effect is the organizational mission, both in peace time, tactical training and combat. This will set the tone for required training needed to be an effective leader in order to support the unit at the organizational level as well as the tactical level. I believe that Tactical Leadership is developed from previous experiences obtained through training performed at the organizational level. Everything we do as leaders is in preparation to support the organization at the unit level in peace time as well as at the tactical level during war, or tactical training. In order for this to work effectively leaders must follow set standard operating procedures (SOP’s). Leaders are constantly evolving, and without defined parameters established thru SOPs we as leader will not be effective. These standards were set in place to assist shaping organizational leaders into tactical leaders. Basic leadership skills and competencies play another important part as well. These skills must continuously be honed and improved on. I believe as a leader...
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...Leadership is shown in our everyday lives by those who surround us. Sometimes being a leader is easier to describe than it is to implement.There have been leaders as long as there's been civilization. Leaders are people who take other into account and try to inspire and motivate people to do the right thing and create something new. One of the most important and well-known leaders of the United States is Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln demonstrated being an exceptional leader by leading us through the bloodiest war, by preserving the union, strengthening the federal government, and abolishing slavery. Leaders are not only Presidents but are also people we see on an everyday basis. One leader in Flint, Michigan, named Dr. Hanna-Attisha was...
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...empowerment in ourselves and exceed above and beyond expectations. He tells us that self motivation can be fueled by the four C words of Competence, Consequences, Choice and Community. After listening to Mr. Geller’s speech I have come to the realization that a leader who inspires self motivation and empowerment needs to be an effective communicator. It is the expertise of a leader’s communication skills that will get others to perceive the four “C” words that “fuel” self motivation. A leader must be able to effectively communicate to others the perception that they are Competent. Geller states that to inspire self motivation by...
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...the theoretical and practical changes that cause organizational leadership to alter its goals and effectiveness, by way of strategic variables or necessity. The understanding and significance of theoretical and practical change in organizational leadership is fundamental to the nature and trends of business and government goals and their effectiveness. Organizational leadership is a planned social process that a person or persons in charge, lead or organize groups of people to achieve a common objective. This process may be orchestrated on a large or small scale and for profit or power. This strategic process is not normally the vision of a manager initially, but the dream or idea of the true leader. The strategies used by the leader of an organization often establish the culture of the organization (Flamholtz, & Randle, 2008). Theoretical and practical change in organizational leadership appears to be involved heavily with organizational culture or behavior. The history and background of organizational leadership has illustrated both fundamental and enlightening examples of how theoretical and practical changes have altered the course or direction that business and governmental goals were achieved or adopted during economic and social development (Flamholtz, & Randle, 2008). Organizational leadership, as recognized today, has...
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