...Spotlight on LeadershIp Spotlight Artwork Adam Ekberg Country Road, 2005 Ink-jet print HBr.orG Michael D. Watkins is a cofounder of Genesis Advisers, a leadership development firm specializing in onboarding and transition acceleration, and a professor at IMD. He is the author of The First 90 Days and Your Next Move (both from Harvard Business Press). The seven seismic shifts of perspective and responsibility by Michael D. Watkins How Managers Become Leaders June 2012 Harvard Business review 65 SPOTLIGHT ON LEADERSHIP arald (not his real name) is a highpotential leader with 15 years of experience at a leading European chemical company. He started as an assistant product manager in the plastics unit and was quickly transferred to Hong Kong to help set up the unit’s new Asian business center. As sales there soared, he soon won a promotion to sales manager. Three years later he returned to Europe as the marketing and sales director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, overseeing a group of 80 professionals. Continuing his string of successes, he was promoted to vice president of marketing and sales for the polyethylene division, responsible for several lines of products, related services, and a sta of nearly 200. All of Harald’s hard work culminated in his appointment as the head of the company’s plastic resins unit, a business with more than 3,000 employees worldwide. Quite intentionally, the company had assigned him to run a small but thriving business...
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...[*][FONT=Times New Roman]Team Leader[/FONT] Team Leader is usually Lieutenant and/or above within Special Enforcement Bureau. Team leader gives commands to element leaders. By giving command to Element leader it'll be easier communication within the team. Team Leader will be chosen before going to any mission. Team Leaders can also be element leaders, but at this point, they'll have to control another element as well as their own. [*][FONT=Times New Roman]Element Leader[/FONT] Element Leaders can be chosen by their element they've been assigned in, if your element votes for you to become Element leader, you may do that. Element Leaders are leading specific amount and group of people within the Special Enforcement Bureau, the people under...
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...How to Become a Level 5 Leader - Part 1 by Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2004 Jim Collins discovered when analyzing the research for his book "Good to Great," that the leaders who ran the "great" companies during the transition from good-to-great were all "Level 5" leaders. For those of you not familiar with "Good to Great," the qualifying criteria was that a company had to have achieved an average cumulative stock return of at least 3 times the market over a 15 year period. Only 11 of the Fortune 500 companies met all the criteria they used. Collins said that the "data won" when it came to understanding the forces behind all good to great companies. In other words, his findings were derived from hard data not from personal opinion or intuitions about what helped propel a company grow from good to great. "...Level 5 leadership is an empirical finding, not an ideological one." "The good-to-great executives were all cut from the same cloth. It didn't matter whether the company was consumer or industrial, in crisis or steady state, offered services or products. It didn't matter when the transition took place or how big the company. All the good-to-great companies had Level 5 leadership at the time of the transition. Furthermore, the absence of Level 5 leadership showed up as a consistent pattern in the comparison companies..." In a nutshell, Level 5 Leaders "blend extreme personal humility with intense professional will." In a previous executive briefing (Charisma Is No Panacea)...
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...Profile of Peter Chikumba as at December 2010. 2 Zebra Close, Borrowdale West Harare Mobile/ Business: +263912570040 Home tel: + 263 4 870193 Nationality: Zimbabwean D.O.B : 15/08/1954 E-mail: peterchikumba@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES A mature, dynamic and hardworking person and an extrovert who is able to work as part of a multi-discipline team, committed to providing professional service and able to lead a cross-functional team. A firm and unwavering practitioner of Corporate Governance based on one value of INTEGRITY. Key Competencies: • Possess strong Technical Skills in Airframe and Engine maintenance technologies • Experience in building and leading multi-discipline and cross-functional teams, relationship management, influencing and inspiring teams, utilizing exceptional problem solving abilities. • Goal driven, careful and meticulous, critical of errors and unsystematic work • Proven leadership skills with commendable analytical and problem solving skills. Strong professional and personal integrity. • Strong interpersonal and reporting skills • Versatile and dynamic, having worked in different settings in different countries • Goal getter and a faithful executive • Total commitment to generosity in giving: time, talent, treasure...
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...person and can influence others to become a better person. Many people have very sad life experiences, and others have had a great life experience. Each experience tells a life lesson that everybody can benefit from. In this case, my father’s life experience has motivated me to become an even better person. Life experiences from others can impact another person life to become even greater. That is what my father has done. His life experience has made me become an even better person than what I was before. Born and raised in the country side of El Salvador, my father, from the day he could start to walk has been working with his brothers, sisters and father and mother to just barley live on their own. He would start his day off by waking up as soon as you can see and start working until you couldn’t see no more. He has been doing that for 13 years of his life. Every day would be a challenge to him because he would perform different task every day that not your average teenager would do here. Living in the same room with 6 of your brothers, with no bed has truly made my father what he is today. At the age of 18, my father made one of the hardest decisions of his life and that was migrating from El Salvador to the United States of America. He started his journey in the United States by buying a flight from California to Boston and that’s when it all began. Coming to Boston, my father did not know what to expect. He didn’t know how to communicate, how to get places or where to be....
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...Becoming a leader Professional Development Abstract Nowadays, the business segment in society is growing quickly, and along with this growth comes the need for more leaders to manage and lead the developing companies. Effective leadership is the foundation for any business. Developing behaviors, forming strategic planning, overcoming difficulties, and motivating and inspiring employees are main components of effective leadership. This paper demonstrates the aspect of effective leadership and how to become a great leader for a successful company. Since the beginning of time, leadership has been a requirement of society. Effective leadership is necessary, a main component for the success of a company. Leadership is a vital process of relationship building between individuals. Effective leaders develop performance by assuming capability and constructing upon existing strengths. If a company's objective is to improvement, effective leader is undeniable necessity. A good team leader is someone that can take responsibility for his or her own decision and subordinates’ actions. In order to be an effective team leader, one must have the abilities of having a vision, responsibility, and interpersonal communication skills. Good leaders should be able to communicate as well as motivate employees effectively. There are believes that great leaders are made, not born. The fact is that some people already possess talent naturally in leadership skill. However, without training,...
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...Source: http://smartblogs.com/ It's often discussed that what makes a good leader, and what are the main attributes an effective leader should have. There exist several articles published on this topic "Key Leadership Attributes" which explain the key qualities that every leader should try to follow and manage before leading others. I chose " Leading yourself before you lead others" topic as it encouraged me to survey and understand how can we become an effective leader, as if we are not able to manage our self first than we cannot manage others. I feel that Dan McCarthy article on “Before you can lead others, you need to manage yourself” motivates me to understand basic requirement what a leader should know and learn to manage within himself before leading others.When we talk about a team its development only starts with the development of the team leader. Leader in an organization is responsible to set goals, set priorities and achieve success. Also he/she plays an important role in motivating others and are considered as a role models for others. According to Dan McCarthy, "Leadership is leading yourself before you lead others", which means that leaders must first identify the leadership traits and understand how to develop his/her own skill sets to properly prepare for larger leadership roles and continued success in current role. This matter of thinking is simply, and doesn't allow to become stale. Always looks for ways to better yourself which will translate into...
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...LEADERS: Leaders are the people who influence individuals or groups for the achievement of predetermined goals.A person who rules or guides or inspires others. Someone others are willing to follow, almost without question. LEADERSHIP: Dr. Paul Hersey defines leadership as "working with and through others to achieve objectives." Given this definition, anyone in a position whose achievement requires the support of others can play the role of a leader. Art or process of influencing people so that they will strive willingly towards achieving set goals. Characteristics of a good leader: * One who has an excellent and admirable character A leader has to be trustworthy and must fulfill promises made. He must also take responsibility for his own actions. * One who takes work seriously A good leader is one who takes his work and role as a leader seriously. He motivates his followers towards a common objective. * One who is confident and calm in a crisis A leader must display self-confidence and exude a clam disposition so that people will believe in him. He is able to adapt to situational changes. There has been a debate for years about what makes a great leader. This debate is at times summarized into two schools of thought. Trait Theories: Similar in some ways to "Great Man" theories, trait theories assume that people inherit certain qualities and traits that make them better suited to leadership. Trait theories often identify particular personality or behavioral characteristics...
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..."LEADERSHIP STARTS WITH YOU" It's often discussed that what makes a good leader, and what are the main attributes an effective leader should have. There exist several articles published on this topic "Key Leadership Attributes" which explain the key qualities that every leader should try to follow and manage before leading others. I chose " Leading yourself before you lead others" topic as it encouraged me to survey and understand how can we become an effective leader, as if we are not able to manage our self first than we cannot manage others. I feel that Dan McCarthy article on “Before you can lead others, you need to manage yourself” motivates me to understand basic requirement what a leader should know and learn to manage within himself before leading others.When we talk about a team its development only starts with the development of the team leader. Leader in an organization is responsible to set goals, set priorities and achieve success. Also he/she plays an important role in motivating others and are considered as a role models for others. According to Dan McCarthy, "Leadership is leading yourself before you lead others", which means that leaders must first identify the leadership traits and understand how to develop his/her own skill sets to properly prepare for larger leadership roles and continued success in current role. This matter of thinking is simply, and doesn't allow to become stale. Always looks for ways to better yourself which will translate into...
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...main purpose of this novel was to show discrimination of individuality. Rand used characters with ironic names such as the main one, Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. Equality 7-2521 has become very critical of the leaders of his society by the end of the novel, denouncing them in moral terms while in the process in becoming an individual. Moral values are important to most people in the world. They are the motive power in their actions. Equality 7-2521 was not right to become so critical to the leaders of his society. Everyone’s moral values motivate people to do more than they think they can, and having Equality 7-2521 be critical and denounce them was not a helpful thing to do for the other people’s thoughts. Men have to make choices; no moral neutrality is possible when there is no escape from moral values. Therefore, Equality 7-2521 was not right for denouncing the leaders of his society in their moral terms....
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...the issue. As leaders, we failed to realize the different symptoms and problems that our soldiers returning from combat were suffering from. Many returned with physical problems while others with mental problems. For us as leaders to help our soldiers with these problems, we must educate ourselves so we can identify these symptoms. That is where Master Resilience Training (MRT) comes into play. Until we get educated, understand how people react to different situations, then, and only then, can we help our soldiers when they need it the most. We have to care. We have to get involved. Our soldiers deserve good leaders, they deserve the best because they are the best and the future on our army. Our Leadership and Master Resilience Training Family problems, alcohol problems, drugs, suicides, and sexual assaults are some of the problems that our soldiers are struggling with when returning from deployments. To tackle these problems and to help our soldiers more effectively, the army created what we now know as Master Resilience Training (MRT). MRT teaches us how to identify the different symptoms so we can be able to recognize them in our soldiers and be able to help them to cope with those issues. That is what MRT teaches us. It gives us the tools to recognize our weaknesses and allow us to rebound from failure. The only way that us as leaders can help our soldiers is by educating ourselves in this matter and accept it as an important tool. As leaders, we have to be...
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...traditional beliefs about leadership and influence. Servant leadership emphasizes that leaders should be attentive to the needs of the followers, empower them, and help them develop their full human capacities. They build strong relationships, with others, are empathic, and ethical, and lead in ways that serve the greater good of followers, organizations, and the community. 2. In what ways is servant leadership a paradox? Is servant leadership more of a trait or a behavior? Being a servant leader implies following, and following is viewed as the opposite of leading. Although servant leadership incorporates influence, the mechanism of how influence functions as a part of servant leadership is not fully explicated in the approach. Researchers cannot come to an agreement on the characteristics of servant leadership. There are far too many different opinions. Servant leadership is more of a trait because it comes from the leader, the leader wants to help, the leader wants to improve moral, it is natural and not something learned. 3. Have you known people who, by nature, are servants? In a way we are all servants, we all want to please someone and help each other to be better. I am a servant of my family; I help them and try my best for them to have everything they need to succeed. 4. How does a person become altruistic? Is this an inborn trait or a learned behavior? One becomes altruistic on an everyday basis, it is learned throughout life. I believe that it is...
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...and stereotypes and often becomes the source of stress and frustration within an organization. Leaders often seem to lose his or her voice in the day-to-day office politics and, in turn, lose the trust of the employees he or she represents and is expected to lead. A strong leader has the ability to build trust and respect of the employees he or she leads while still understanding and maintaining the corporate goals the executive team sets for the organization. The ability to speak the truth while providing realistic expectations and opportunities to employees displays the leader’s ability to effectively manage. Managing a group of individuals includes finding the strengths and weaknesses of the employees and capitalizing on the strengths while finding a solution to the weaknesses. This essay will explore the leadership philosophy of this author and how leadership can be defined in possibly a not so usual fashion. Finding one’s leadership style involves looking into oneself and learning from every past experience within organizations and using the flaws as experiences to learn from and correct in future organizations. Through many experiences with failed leadership, it may become easy to develop a leadership theory that works well for an individual. The path-goal theory becomes a strong candidate for a successful leadership theory as the idea behind the path-goal theory involves the leader providing the tools to his or her employees to become successful. Another leadership...
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...So who do you think about when I mention leader? Some think Malcolm Turnbull, Or president Obama. I think of Kim Jong UN… probably not the best person to think about but that’s my though probably not the best person though. If I were to say that we are all leaders right now I would be lying. But hear me out I think that we all can become that person we dream about that person that changes the world. How many of you follow someone. And how many people follow someone even though you have the chance to lead. I know that all we can be a leader. You just have to take that chance. So what everyone fails in their life? From a great movie Rocky there is a quote which is my favourite quote of all time its. “It doesn’t matter hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. So don’t stop once you fail become that leader that you can be because of your strength. Some say OH NO I WANTSN’T BORN TO BE A LEADER SO I CAN BE ON HELP MEEEE! Not true at all no bone is born a leader it is earned. Let’s take Kim Jong UN and President Obama. Kim Jong UN was born into power but he I not a great leader. No he is horrible. He hasn’t done anything good for North Korea and that’s not good leader ship. Yes I said anyone could be a leader he...
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...and points will be stated to avoid such ethical issues from arising. If ethical issues of come forth the paper discusses how a leader should handle such issues whether it is with the leader itself, a group member, or the group as one. Key ethical issues discussed will be confidentiality, leader values, relationships, encouragement, and commitment. Ethical Issues in Groups Introduction Ethical issues will occur in any type of counseling. When groups are established and consist of individuals with similar issues the leader must ensure that ethical boundaries are not crossed. This includes: confidentiality with leaders and group members, encouragement, relationships, leader’s values, and commitment to the group. The use of proper ethical standards will establish the proper structure for a group to be successful on an individual level as well as a group level. When ethical standards are upheld, the group will be viewed by its members as a safe, secure, and private environment in which they can share, trust members and the leader, and develop a bond with the entire group. This bond is the basis for such success. Confidentiality It is a necessity for all groups to maintain a form of confidentiality. This is to ensure that the leaders and the members of the groups feel as though information they have shared will remain in the group. Group members as well as leaders tend to not want information shared outside of the group for multiple reasons such as outside influence, individuals in...
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