...Leadership Point of View Activity 6.6 Dan Sweeny Indiana Wesleyan MBA Throughout the “Applied Management Concepts” coursework, teachings from Blanchard and Robbins, DeCenzo, and Coulter have been numerous in an effort to explain and portray a leadership point of view, defined by the Blanchard as their “thoughts about leading and motivating people” (Blanchard, 2010). Naturally, this book has examined Blanchard’s leadership point of view, and while it may seem like a model for creating one’s own point of view, everyone will have a different style, even if only slightly. I will examine and determine my leadership point of view in hopes to become more conscious and purposeful in my leadership as I attempt to direct my career through the ranks of hospital management. The text has provided readers with a set of questions to help develop their own leadership point of view. I will examine and respond to each of these inquiries to become more familiar with how I lead. The first question asks what I have learned about leadership from the influencers in my life who have contributed a positive or negative impact, from teachers to family members to bosses. The first person I can think of is my grandfather. He is one of my biggest influencers in any aspect, but certainly in leadership. He has owned a successful pharmacy business for over 55 years, becoming a staple in Dayton, Ohio. His and my grandmother’s work in the...
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...Leadership Point of View MGT-605 6.4.2013 Leadership Point of View Growing up I had a few key people who helped shaped who I am today. The first was my mother. Her kind and loving spirit showed me that a gentle spirit is conducive to a serving attitude and living God’s kingdom here on earth. A servant attitude is imperative to becoming a strong leader. The second key influencer in my life was my youth pastor Ryan. He was always there for me during my first 2 years of high school. If I ever needed someone to talk to or to hang out with he was always available. He led our youth group by being relatable. He showed me how to lead through relationships. If you can affect a person’s life by showing them your own, your ability to lead them increases dramatically. I have proven this concept to be successful through building relationships at church camps throughout the years. I have been able to effectively lead youth by building relationships with them first before trying to lead them. I grew up with a younger brother and sister. Their age difference is only 1.5 years which puts them relatively at the same maturity level growing up. They fought constantly, always bickering with each other and causing my parents’ parenting job to become increasingly stressful. I saw this situation as an opportunity to lead my brother and sister so that my parents could alleviate some of their stress. I learned how to create peace between two conflicting entities and found ways to make sure both...
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...My leadership Point of View My background I grew up in an average income earning family; this means, we were neither poor nor rich. My mom and dad were both teachers who had six children. My father was a loving and caring father but died out of a kidney related disease when I was only eleven years old, so my mother had to bring us up as a single mother. As a result, we had to engage in subsistence farming to support the family income. My mother to this day is the most influential person in my life. With her meager pay, she was able to see us all through to the university. She inspired me. She is such a kind-hearted person, humble and very loving. As a result, her students always appreciate her as the best teacher. Indeed, she was the best of best teachers be it at home or in school. Her philosophy is, always create an air of love around you and honor everyone; both young and old, poor and rich. These have been my guiding principles in life. There was this boy in our school, my senior but classmate to my oldest brother. This boy was always late for school, grew emaciated, and was always in tattered uniform. Most parents forbid their children to have anything to do with this boy. However, my brother took him as his best friend. He shared his food with him and introduced him to our mom. My mom was always there for this boy. He was from such a poverty ridden home beyond description. You know, anytime I remember this incident tears run down my cheeks. He is called Gato...
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...This view states that weak leadership is the one main reason why Chartism failed during years 1838-48, however I will prove it was not only down to one thing reason of why O’Connor, Lovett and Attwood, the Chartists did not succeed in bringing all of the six points to the people – such as economic and political reasons. Source 4 is a letter written by William Lovett so therefore will be biased towards his own views against Feargus O’Connor and the fact he undermines his college though argument just shows the lack of respect they had for each other, proving there was weak leadership. “His constant appeals to the selfishness and vanity of man […] a spirit of hate, intolerance and brute feeling” It agrees with the view that the failure was down to weak leadership as it proposes the idea that not all leaders were united and therefore was the failure, I know from my own knowledge that Lovett himself resigned due to outrage from O’Connor’s behaviour. Source 5 also says that “the vast number of arrests, prosecutions and imprisonments” this suggests that the leadership was again weak due to division of views, physical force and moral force – if people were getting arrested etc. then the leaders must not have been good ones in the first place. Source 6 says “failure can be explained by the divergence of these attitudes once the Chartist message had proved ineffective and untrue” which again like the other two sources shows the division of views from each leader which meant they...
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...: Leadership and Management Leadership and Management 1. Introduction The origins of management can be traced back to the age of mediaeval mercantilism or even earlier, yet the nature of business management as an applied science only really developed in the last century. In the modern context, business management is limited to one component of the economic system, namely the individual organization, whether it be a private business, a government corporation or, to a lesser extent, a non-profit seeking organization. Contemporary society consists of diverse organizations, including business enterprises, schools, hospitals, sport clubs, churches and political parties that contribute to the functioning of the community. The profitable performance of these organizations is dependent on attaining pre-designed objectives and to make its services as productive and efficient as possible. However, organizations do not achieve their objectives automatically. In addition to the human resources, physical resources and special know-how in a business organization, there is still one element that is necessary to direct all these resources and activities effectively towards the goals of the enterprise. That indispensable element is management and without it, no purposeful action is possible. The question that is raised within this context of traditional and contemporary views of leadership is how does this aspect coincide and interact with the practical ideals...
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...Defining Leadership There are many ways to define leadership. There is equally as many points of views and several theories that one look to determine the perfect definition, yet still no real consensus of why an individual becomes a leader or even what circumstances place the person in the role of a leader. One way to answer these questions is to describe the different point of views. Reviewing the different viewpoints will create clarity to the definition of leadership; allow discussion around the various theories and why this definition is superior to the other definitions. Lastly, how this selected definition will help the Old Navy Market leader team to lead in a more effective manner. What is Leadership? Leadership in the simplest definition according to Merriham-Webster defines leaders as: 1) A position as a leader of a group, organization 2) The power or ability to lead other people. These definitions show leadership as something that you do, it is not an activity or a position. This point of view also assumes it is where people operate that makes them a leader. The second definition requires the possession of certain traits or skills. Definitions rarely help one to understand or do the very thing you are trying to define. For example, one can define balance but this does not help to achieve balance necessarily to snowboard without falling. Are all leaders born with the needed traits to be a successful leader? There is not enough consensuses about “universal”...
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...Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making INTD670-1202B-01 Phase 1 DB 2 Leadership, Management, and Ethics Professor Cynthia Roundy CTU Deborah Lam May 21, 2012 As the new leader and compliance officer with ECG I want to go over and discuss how a leader and a manager are different, and a definition of what a leader is and what a manager is. This document will also cover the responsibilities and accountabilities are for a leader and how the new leader will impact ECG. A manager is someone who is in leads of a certain group of tasks, or a certain part of a company. They usually have workers who report to them, (Business Dictionary.com, 2012). A leader is someone who influences a group of people towards the success of a goal and a person who goes first and leads by example so others will decide to follow them, (Vtaide, n.d.). The words leadership and management are considered to be different by diverse people. Some people see these words and most of the time use them interchangeably in conversations. Some people view them as being opposites; so much, that they would argue that you can’t be a good leader and manager at the same time. While other people stay in the middle and believe that there is a difference between the two, with the knowledge a person can be a good leader and a good manager, (Ricketts, n.d.). The roles of leadership and management activities in a company are subtly different...
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...BOOK CRITQUE: TWO VIEWS ON WOMEN IN MINISTRY A PAPER SUMBITTED TO DR. SIMON GONCHARENKO IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE THEO 530 LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BY REGINALD TOWNSEND HATTIESBURG, MS SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Thesis................................................................................................................................1 Introduction......................................................................................................................1 Brief Summary.................................................................................................................1-3 A Critical Interaction........................................................................................................3-6 Conclusion........................................................................................................................7 Bibliography.....................................................................................................................8 THESIS My view on ministry has roots in both complementarianism as well as egalitarianism. It is my goal to show how these two views have led to my understanding of women in ministry in association with the review of Two Views on Women in Ministry. INTRODUCTION The debate of women in ministry is ongoing. This is one that has divided some churches and is split between two views. There have been a...
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...A Summary of “The Emotional Intelligence of Leaders” by Daniel Goleman In the article the “Emotional Intelligence of Leaders,” Daniel Goleman articulates that people who advance in their careers and are in leadership positions usually are people with a higher level of emotional aptitude not scholastic abilities. Goleman believes that leaders are most effective when their emotions and thoughts work robustly together; that leading with love, compassion, and encouragement fosters a better working environment. To prove his point, Goleman looked at the IQs of leaders and realized that there was little difference; their significant gain was in emotional intelligence. He also pointed out that in studies completed, it was clearly evident, that individuals who prospered in their companies were the ones with emotional intelligence not their intellect. Goleman declares that brains of human beings are connected in such a way that emotions and thoughts go hand in hand, which further proves that emotions and intellect must work together. The author explains that emotional intelligence is made up of five key elements which in turn is the same make-up of great leaders. These five key elements are important because they help individuals to lead in such a way that creates cohesion within the workplace, which makes the company strong and grow. According to Goleman (1998), those five elements are self-awareness, management emotions, motivating others, showing empathy and staying connected. These...
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...“How am I doing as a leader?” asks Larry Bossidy, CEO of AlliedSignal in a meeting with his operating mangers. “The answer is, how are the people you lead doing? Do they learn? Do they visit customers? Do they manage conflict and initiate change? Are they growing and being promoted? “When you retire, you won’t remember what you did in the first quarter of 1994, or the third. You’ll remember how many people you developed – how many you helped have a better career because of your interest and dedication to their development. When you’re confused about how you’re doing as a leader, find out how the people you lead are doing. You’ll know the answer.” Andy Grove, CEO of Intel: Roger Enrico, CEO of PepsiCo; Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric; and Admiral Ray Smith of the U.S. Special Operations Command agree with Bossidy. All are respected leaders of successful organizations that constantly outthink and outmaneuver their competitors. Though those leaders have been 1 2 instrumental in their companies’ success, they have also built large pools of talent. They have contributed to their organizations’ success by personally developing leaders at all levels. Once upon a time Here’s what you would see if you visited Grove, Enrico, Welch, and Smith leading their businesses. Intel. In Santa Clara, California, Andy Grove is teaching Intel managers how to lead in an industry in which the product (semiconductors) doubles in capacity every 18 months. In Grove’s teaching sessions, he...
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...Chapter 1 (1) Instead of an individual’s status or title, it is his/ her Leadership Point of View (LPV) that determines a leader; furthermore, it will be too late for people to start building their LPV after they sit in leadership positions; (2) Different from points of view (POV) of a follower, a bureaucrat, an administer or a contrarian, the LPV requests an individual to be capable to see what needs to be done, to understand all the underlying forces at play in a situation, and to have the courage to initiate action to make things better; (3) To develop the leadership, the first thing that needs to be done is in yourself (“managing energy in yourself” or “self-leadership”). By constant studies, practices and active learning, people can obtain the capability to tell strategic stories; they can also attempt to overcome the fear of rejection (FoR) through balancing listening to others’ opinions and being confident of their owns. These points are recognized important due to the following notions. First, it breaks the stereotype that people’s views reply on their positions and manifests the possibility and necessity for juniors to build up their own LPV. Second, it offers critical procedures and guidelines on how to facilitate with the LPV for achieving effective leaderships. Moreover, it emphasizes the significance of self-leadership prior to motivating others. Comparing with motivating other, self-leadership, characterized by active study and self-cautious, is a more fundamental...
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...argument. One way of shading an argument to suit your own ends is to misrepresent the strength of the opposition. Let us assume that you are working PRESENTING ARGUMENTS FAIRLY 4 1 3 negative view image of attack image of disease 0-312-62992-3 (c) Bedford/St. Martin's / bedfordstmartins.com with a number of articles, all of which are effectively presented and worth citing. Some clearly support your point of view; others are openly opposed; and a few avoid taking sides, emphasizing related but less controversial topics. If your essay cites only the favorable and neutral articles, and avoids any reference to the views of the opposition, you have presented the issue falsely. A one-sided presentation will make you appear to be either biased or sloppy in your research. If the sources are available and if their views are pertinent, they should be represented and, if you wish, refuted in your essay. 2. Provide a complete account of the argument. Sometimes, distortions occur accidentally, because you have presented only a partial account of a source’s views. In the course of an article or a book, authors sometimes examine a variety of views before making it clear which ones they support. Or an author may have mixed opinions about the issue and see merit in more than one point of view. If you choose to quote or paraphrase material from only one section of such a work, then you must also inform...
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...Kenneth Branaugh’s film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V is based on the exploration of leadership. Although the film was difficult to follow at times, certain diction and actions of the characters made the film easier to follow. The diction and actions of King Henry V definitely showcased his abilities as a leader. Henry V focuses on leadership development by concentrating on succession, conflict and redemption. In the film, Henry V shows growth through stature and ability all while developing skills and credibility in the eyes of his followers. Because of this growth, Henry V comes to epitomize transformational leadership through his use of key qualities like vision and values, energy and a teachable point of view. It is through his use of vision and values, energy and a teachable point of view that his followers witness not only his growth as a leader, but also his attention to England’s well-being, unifying his realm and achieving organizational goals. When young King Henry V assumed the throne of his father, Henry IV, he was adamant on gaining the respect of the English people and the court. In order to gain this respect, Henry V had to live down his wild adolescent past in which he befriended drunkards and thieves and showed disrespect to the throne. As shown in the film, Henry V was willing to do whatever was necessary to disassociate himself with his adolescent past. If this meant rejecting his former drunkard and thieve friends, then Henry would do...
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...CRITIQUE: TWO VIEWS ON WOMEN IN MINISTRY A Paper Submitted to Liberty Theological Seminary Dr. Garry Graves In partial fulfillment of the requirements For completion of the course Systematic Theology II THEO 530 By Vernon L Langley July 26, 2012 Beck, James R. Two Views on Women in Ministry: Revised ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-310-25437-9. Thesis Statement: in view of the fact that my own outlook on women’s responsibility in ministry is in between social equality and Complementarian; however I will attempt to show that women have a part in ministry, through the assessment of these two differing points of views as offered in the principal book Two Views on Women In Ministry and as contrasted with other academic books. Introduction: Dr. James R. Beck has assembled four academic assessments which present the egalitarian and complementarianism / hierarchical analysis regarding women in ministry with unprejudiced supplementary counterpoints to completely enlighten the one who reads. The arrangement of analysis appear to evaluate and distinguish in a reasonable, impartial way that supply the one who reads with a good insight of the dispute, with opposing opinions offered at the conclusion of every article. However, the reasonable approach to the arrangement of both components regarding women in ministry do not completely disclose God’s genuineness; thus, the Two Views on Women in...
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...Company. The sections discussed below are based on the reference case scenario presented in the book, where CEO Alan Mulally’s leadership style and his organizational performance are being evaluated. Discuss the role of leadership and how it can impact organizational performance. Leadership influences organizational performance depending on the level to which the leaders enables manages and team to plan, organize, control and act effectively. It is always up to the leadership to see and evaluate the strengths or weakness of any organizations. If the company is strong in financial terms that it has got a great leader or the reverse is always true as well. To achieve greatness, a leader must understand the human element involved, of course adding their own and carefully watch the details every step of the way. A strong leader must know whom they can trust, seek reliable information and make decisions, often without hesitation that will have an overall effect on the direction, speed and all other future decisions. Obviously, this is not an easy task to perform through the long journey but still manageable with creative strategies and hard working. In a large complex organization and environment only a 100% fully engaged human leader could hope to achieve these lofty requirements to fulfill their duties. Thus, leadership is not for everyone, and leadership is one with responsibility. A leader must be able to lead with agility, recover from mistakes from within the organization or...
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