...Entrepreneurial Leadership Running head: Entrepreneurial Leadership Entrepreneurial Leadership Angela Williams Dr. Mensah-Dartey The Business Enterprise April 24, 2011 1. Create a hybrid theory/philosophy which combines the common elements found in the thinking of Case, Kouzes, and Drucker. In your philosophy, be sure to include the new definition of entrepreneurial leadership presented in Understanding Leadership in today’s Dynamic Markets. The common elements found in the thinking of Case (2010), Kouzes (2008), and Drucker (1985) strategies all relate to Entrepreneurial Leadership and have similar qualities. Entrepreneurial Leadership crates visionary scenarios that are used to assemble and mobilize a supporting cast of participants who become committed by the vision to the discovery and exploitation of strategic value creation. The three men also share commonalities such as being risk takers, innovators, investing in people, and being persistent. For instance, Steve Case believes that success requires people, passion, and perseverance (the 3 P’s) and with all together, almost anything is possible. He also believes that entrepreneurship is important in terms of the underlying economic future of our country and that innovation and taking risks in entrepreneurship can get our struggling country back on track. Kouzes could relate to Case’s first “P”, which relates to people. Both Kouzes and Case stresses the importance of people and or his/her feelings....
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...who are willing to think in new ways and venture into new territory, our organizations are likely to stay stuck in the status quo. So, what makes a leader exceptional in today’s organizational environment? Following are five practices for progressive leadership, each one key to moving organizations forward effectively in today’s world: Progressive Leadership Practice #1: Model the Way We’ve all heard the expression, “Do as I say, not as I do.” While typically verbalized within the context of parenting, it also shows up in organizations – much to the detriment of trust and morale. Exceptional leaders walk their talk. In their daily lives, they align their deeds and actions with their personal values and, in the workplace, they align their deeds and actions with organizational values. This means that the leadership practice of modeling the way starts with clarifying organizational values and communicating them to all staff and stakeholders. Once organizational values are clarified and communicated, it’s up to you as a progressive leader to be steadfast to your commitment to them, as well as being alert to discrepancies. This is how leaders earn the right and respect to lead – by embodying what they request. Progressive Leadership Practice #2: Inspire a Shared Vision Leaders breathe life into hopes and dreams, helping others see possibilities. Inspiring a shared vision involves imagining exciting and empowering options for your organization’s future and enrolling others in the...
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...31 Days of Praying for Your Pastor Brothers, pray for us. (1 Thess 5:25 ESV) “Let the thought sink deep into the heart of every church, that their minister will be such a minister as their prayers make him. … How perilous is the condition of that minister ... whose heart is not encouraged, whose hands are not strengthened, and who is not upheld by the prayers of his people! … “It is at a fearful expense that ministers are ever allowed to enter the pulpit without being preceded, accompanied, and followed by the earnest prayers of the churches. It is no marvel that the pulpit is so powerless, and ministers so often disheartened when there are so few to hold up their hands. … When the churches cease to pray for ministers, ministers will no longer be a blessing to the churches.” Gardiner Spring (1785-1873) There is no greater gift you can give your pastor and the spiritual leaders of your church than to pray for them. Pastors cannot win the battle alone; they need committed intercessors to lift them up in fervent, specific prayer. Imagine how the power of God might be released in our churches if we were to pray faithfully for our pastors. Pastors are human—they face the same challenges that their people do, with some additional ones! They grow tired in ministry, are tempted to sin, and may find it difficult to balance their many roles and responsibilities. They need the encouragement and support of those they lead. Prayer for your pastor is crucial to the spiritual health of...
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...of our organizations are operating i.e. build a happy work environment. The Journey from our belly to the top of our head” is called Self Leadership was a very unique definition. Self-Leadership is understanding the co-relation between the cause and effect when they are distanced by time and space. It means the choices that we make today will affect some or the other part of the world soon or maybe after some years, but it is bound to happen. We all have been sent by god for a purpose, our task here is to find that cause and fulfill it. A human has the organs of pleasure at the bottom, then the stomach that gives him the pleasure of food and nutrition, then the heart from where he feels and then at the top is the intellect with which the ideas for making a better world originate. The whole concept of self-leadership is travelling that distance from the bottom to the top. But I guess only becoming a leader won’t help, be it by self-awakening or by some external hand, it is important to be inspired. Just like Swami ji talked about in the video, Anil Sir too made the exact same proposition regarding this. A leader should have the inspired enthusiasm which is almost as indispensable for the conscience as is physical pleasure to our senses, food to our stomach, feelings to the heart and intellect to the mind. Inspired leadership, as defined in the class, is the understanding of the relation between cause and effect when they are distant in time and space. This means being...
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...[pic] What Does It Take to be a Great Leader My Journey Begins When I took the“30 Books in 30 Days Challenge”; I told myself to maximize this opportunity to learn something significant. Broadening one’s knowledge and learning from the best leadership books ever published is like a gift that landed on my lap. 1st day of my 30 day reading journey, I made a strategy with 1 end goal - to enter the minds of all the authors and get the best learnings and most importantly practice it. It wasn’t an easy task - the first few attempts on reading the summaries, I started to doze off at page 2. But I needed to finish not because of the challenge, but because it is an opportunity that should not pass me by. I decided to do it in a way which I will enjoy and love doing it. Since I liked formulas so much and doing it in excel I decided to come up with a “leadership matrix” based on the different books and from there have a formula for being a great leader. I made my summary of the summaries and counted how many times a particular quality or trait will be written by different authors. By this time I started to look forward to reading each summary. Before book # 1, I sat and looked back at the 17 years of my work life and started to ask myself what kind of a leader I am, to accept the brutal facts of how far am I from being a great leader. On the 26th book, finally came up with an equation which I felt and believed is the formula for being a great...
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...| 5 | Does God exist?- Engagement with the Brahmo Samaj | 5-7 | Association with Shri Ramakrishna | 7-8 | Developing eminence and emergence of leadership | Early development of leadership traits | 8 | Dasasya | 9 | Vivekananda at Chicago | 10 | Vivekananda’s take on Vedanta | 10-11 | Vivekananda’s Works | 11 | Vivekananda on his Last Days | 11-12 | Major contributions and demonstrated leadership capability | 12-13 | Swami Vivekananda’s leadership concepts, as applicable in organizations of today | 13-15 | Comments on the person’s leadership styles and attributes | 16-17 | Motivation behind this writing this paper and choosing Swami Vivekananda Leadership is seen in the board room and in the kindergarten classroom. It is needed to guide nations as well as a scout troop. Leadership is exercised all over the world. Perhaps the fact that leadership is “omnipresent” is why it is often ignored, neglected and taken for granted. It’s like air; we don’t even think about it unless it’s lacking. The fact that leadership is so pervasive should make it a required subject in business school. While some topics are electives, everyone needs to learn the essence of leadership. In recent years leadership has become a hot topic. Though leadership is a hot topic, it is not a new topic. Wren says, “Leadership is not a “fad” but a concept that is both current and timeless. The leader chosen by me is Swami Vivekananada. Swami Vivekananda is a must mention among...
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...The 8th Habit By Stephen Covey A Summary The Whole-Person paradigm says that people are whole people - body, mind, heart and spirit - and they have four related capacities: (1) Physical Intelligence, (2) Mental Intelligence, (3) Emotional Intelligence, and (4) Spiritual Intelligence. People also have four related needs: (1) To Live - Survival, (2) To Love - Relationships, (3) To Learn - Growth and Development, and (4) To Leave a Legacy - Meaning and Contribution. People have choices - in fact, there are six choices that we have in any situation (1) rebel or quit, (2) malicious obedience, (3) willing compliance, (4) cheerful cooperation, (5) heartfelt commitment and (6) creative excitement. People want to be paid fairly, used creatively, treated kindly and given an opportunity to serve human needs in principled ways. So, whole people (body, mind, heart and spirit) with four basic needs (1) to live, (2) to learn, (3) to love, and (4) to leave a legacy) and four intelligences or capacities (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) and their highest manifestations (discipline, vision, passion and conscience) all of which represent the four dimensions of voice (need, talent, passion and conscience). Our voice lies at the intersection of talent (your natural gifts and strengths), passion (things that naturally energise, excite, motivate and inspire you), need (including what he world needs enough to pay you for), and conscience (that still voice within that assures...
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...economy. He used the three P’s to explain why the merger was a failure: People- people began to focus on their own issues rather than innovation; Passion-that AOL lost its original drive and that the innovating, pioneering people started to become more corporate; and Perseverance- they assumed that the Internet was a fleeting phenomenon and preceded to back away from it. Case then concludes with a quote by Thomas Edison, although the P’s are necessary that “vision without execution is hallucination” (Case, 2010). James Kouzes’ theory consisted of five characteristics of an effective leader and how to achieve exemplary leadership. Like Case, Kouzes had specific characteristics to explain what a leader should possess. Kouzes five points were model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, practice of enabling others to act, and encourage the heart. He then described a way to achieve all of his points. “Model the way” is achieved by establishing a clear set of values and expectations...
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...Gkornean Grand Canyon University: LRD 600-0500: Leadership Styles and Development Dr. Terri Trent September 2, 2015 “Coach K: A Matter of the Heart” & "Coach Knight: A Will to Win” Overview This paper provides a leadership styles and skills analysis of two cases that separately discussed the professional careers of two leaders involved in similar kinds of activities. It presents two coaches – Coach K and Coach Knight - as achievers but distinguishes them in terms of the methodology used. This paper recognizes similar leadership attributes of these two leaders and distinguishes one from another in terms of their leadership style. It identifies Coach K more as a leader than Coach Knight whose attributes were more managerial. Leadership Skills Coach K was an efficient and successful leader who demonstrated excellent leadership skills as he led the Duke Basketball Team to becoming one of the most successful college basketball teams in America’s history (DeLacey, Perlow & Snook, 2005). His success can be attributed to the following leadership skills: competencies, individual attributes, and leadership outcomes, technical, human and conceptual skills. Similarly, Coach Knight was a very successful basketball coach at Indiana University and Texas Tech. According to DeLacey, Perlow & Snook (2005), he earned for himself one of the most enviable records in college basketball history and his success can be attributed to his leadership or managerial skills such as technical, conceptual...
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...Each year only a select amount of intellectual students get accepted into the most prestigious group in middle school, the National Junior Honor Society. Moreover, they are not only accepted for their intelligence, but more importantly their character. Those who have earned a spot in this group have shown an exceptional trait of leadership, respect, and a heart that is willing to serve others. To commence with, the National Junior Honor Society is about being the leaders of your school. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” John C. Maxwell. This clever quote conveys all leaders to lead their peers with a wise mind. Those who have been accepted have shown the leadership trait by guiding their school...
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...Intelligence of Leaders”, Goleman (1998), believes that emotional intelligence is leadership of the heart, which is essential to the success of a team or organization. Most leaders who show emotions and connect with others emotionally tend to lead high performance groups and are more to be ahead of their competitors. Goleman also talked about the anatomy of emotions and believe they are the very structure on which our brain is built. Emotions are what give us the ability to think and react rationally. In other words, without emotions, leaders could make decisions that could be detrimental to their teams’ performance. A decision that leads to a positive outcome, is one made when we control our feelings and not let them get in the way of our thinking process. Goleman’s believes were based on several researches. One study done by Stanford University, showed that kids who exhibited patience and were less impulsive, were betting at controlling their emotions as they got older. These kids had a greater advantage to succeed than those who were impatient and could not handle stress well. Goleman pointed out that this was also evident in the study done by The Center for Creative Leadership. Leaders who failed at their jobs did so, because they failed to effectively manage stress. They were unable to help their teams navigate changes. According to Goleman, emotional intelligence is measured through five main leadership characteristics. First there is self-awareness. This allows leaders to...
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...terrorist campaign from a democratic stand point is a hard task. Terrorist, especially in the 21st century is very adaptive to their environment and have gone global. This overall has left many different approaches to combating terrorism or insurgences. There is HVT approach; cutting their financial flow approach; the heavy intelligence approach; train, advise, assist; and the hearts and minds approach. These approaches can be used by themselves, or in conjunction with each other. HVT Approach The High Value Target (HVT) approach works toward taking out key leaders in a terrorist organization, to hopefully create a tunnel effect. This tunnel effect is supposed to either take the leadership out of the organization, establish weaker leadership, or cause internal conflict within the organization which overall weakens it (Frankel 2011). This...
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... that can be described as our "Circle of Influence". When we focus our time and energy in our Circle of Concern, but outside our Circle of Influence, we are not being effective. However, we find that being proactive helps us expand our Circle of Influence. (Work on things you can do something about.) Reactive people focus their efforts on the Circle of Concern, over things they can't control. Their negative energy causes their Circle of Influence to shrink. Sometimes we make choices with negative consequences, called mistakes. We can't recall or undo past mistakes. The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. Success is the far side of failure. At the heart of our Circle of Influence is our ability to make and keep commitments and promises. Our integrity in keeping commitments and the ability to make commitments are the clearest manifestations of proactivity. Begin...
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...Abstract An essential component of leadership is to articulate and exemplify the organization's core values. These values must be clear, compelling, and repeated. The leader must both "walk the talk" and inspire his/her colleagues within the organization to also live these values. Values are at the core of individual, group or organizational identity. Values are relatively enduring conceptions or judgments about what is considered to be important to an organization. Agreement between personal and organizational values result in shared values which constitute the benchmarking of a successful business practice. Thinking We, Not I Leadership today is a full contact sport and as people’s plates are overflowing, leaders are doing more with less daily. To create a healthy, sustainable organization, there is a need to create a culture where others are motivated to give their discretionary energy. Productivity and success depend on healthy leaders and employees who are not caught up in disruptive behaviors such as blame, victim thinking, excessive control, silo mentality, and internal competition. When such behaviors surface it is necessary to take proactive steps to pinpoint the cause and what must be done to turn the culture around. Re-visiting the organizations mission statement is a good place start. Leaders of healthy, sustainable organizations excel in three activities: 1) clarify goals and expectations; 2) help employees to see how their responsibilities align...
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...patients are wheeled from one examination to another with little personal interaction received from their healthcare provider. Patients are hooked up to monitors alarming endlessly due to staff being either unavailable to silence them or not having the compassion to comfort. Technology has become so dominant in hospital settings that we have lost sight of providing the loving care aspect of our profession. Dehumanizing our patients will not heal them; our current practices could actually cause more harm. Healing Hospitals are now surfacing around the country with the concept supporting a culture of caring. This does not mean that technology has been pushed aside; a Healing Hospital incorporates technology as well as the whole patient, body, mind and spirit. To understand the concepts of a Healing Hospital, we can examine the work of Erie Chapman, founding president and chief executive officer of the Baptist Healing Trust in Nashville, Tennessee. On October 1, 1998, Chapman took the reins of The Baptist Hospital System and unbeknownst to him, many financial and emotional challenges would be awaiting. He defines them as tornados, one being an actual tornado causing structural damage to the hospital earlier that year and the other being an inside (corporation) financial tornado. The latter would be more challenging for him, leading a company that is $83 million dollars worse off than what he was told (Chapman, 2007). His first step was to develop a mission and value statement...
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