...I enjoyed listening to General Stanley McChrystal during the On Leadership at the Washington Post podcast. One of the comments that impressed me was when he received the question, “How do you tell if someone’s going to be (a) good combat commander?” General McChrystal’s response explained basically that a good commander had the skill set to develop and understand the balance point in gathering sufficient information to make a good decision, but not delay the course of action out of caution that prevents from making a timely decision. A previous supervisor by the name of Mitch Slaymaker had that skill which more accurately defined his leadership actions rather than traits. He was skillful in gathering intelligence in order to mitigate the risk...
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...The Leadership Lever Claim Proper leadership is required to maintain and build an organization, not just proper management. When proper leadership is in place it is a benefit to both the organization and the individual leader. Summary There are several steps that management can take to create a positive working environment, however, there needs to be steady and firm leadership in place in order to make management a success. There are four "management levers" that help shape the way a group works, and there are four "leadership levers" that are important for a leader to have in order to provide leadership to a group. There are several qualities that make a successful leader that go above and beyond the qualities needed of a manager; the important ones are Vision, Values, Handling Mistakes and Influencing Skills. Analysis The author makes some good points regarding both management and leadership. He points out that management is limited to basically legalities and therefore has its shortcomings, whereas leadership is more value based and requires a person to be more open-minded and opinionated than a management position. The author does seem to be more biased against management, while he makes valid points, he tends to put management down on the ladder a little more than is probably necessary. However, he explains that you must have management for leadership to move forward effectively and that leadership...
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...Servant Leadership: A Review and Synthesis Dirk van Dierendonck Journal of Management 2011 37: 1228 originally published online 2 September 2010 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310380462 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/37/4/1228 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management can be found at: Email Alerts: http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://jom.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/37/4/1228.refs.html >> Version of Record - Jun 8, 2011 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Sep 2, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from jom.sagepub.com at OhioLink on February 1, 2013 Journal of Management Vol. 37 No. 4, July 2011 1228-1261 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310380462 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Servant Leadership: A Review and Synthesis Dirk van Dierendonck Erasmus University Servant leadership is positioned as a new field of research for leadership scholars. This review deals with the historical background of servant leadership, its key characteristics, the available measurement tools, and the results of relevant studies that have been conducted so far. An overall conceptual model of servant leadership is presented...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 4MAT Book Review: Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders Submitted to Dr. David Nemitz in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of LEAD 510-D01 Biblical Foundations of Christian Leadership by Detria Thomas November 30, 2015 Abstract In the book Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders, by Reggie McNeal it examines the need for strong spiritual Christian leaders in today’s society. McNeal looks at the good and bad characteristics of a leader in order to help leaders understand and develop the characteristics needed in one’s own life to be a good leader. McNeal states “we are desperate for great leaders in every sector of our society…..we are even more desperate for great spiritual leaders.” McNeal looks at seven areas which are self-awareness, self management, self development, mission, decision making, belonging, and aloneness in order to help leaders to become great spiritual leaders. McNeal states that “leader’s who have an appropriate view of self (humility), combined with the capacity to help others (service), don’t just show up in the nick of time. They are crafted over time. They practice being great." To help his readers understand McNeal goes into great detail in each section and uses real-life examples for readers to relate to in hopes of giving them a better sense of understanding what a great leader is. Understanding your strengths...
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...A Review of Maxwell’s Leadership Development “Leadership can be taught.” (Maxwell, 1993, p. viii) This is the continual theme expressed by John C. Maxwell throughout his books Developing the Leader Within You (1993) and Developing the Leaders Around You (1995). In his first book, Maxwell identifies leadership as a teachable and practicable skill, and outlines the various components of leadership to improve one’s own character and ability to lead others. His second book, focuses on reproducing the skills in others, not simply for others to possess them, but so they can be reproduced in successive generations. This reproduction allows a vision to be carried on, it creates a legacy. Maxwell’s evolution of leadership begins with a definition. Maxwell states that “leadership is influence.” (Maxwell 1993, p.1) In looking at leadership as influence we must consider who we influence. On May 30, 2000 Charles Barkley is noted for claiming that “I’m no role model.” Whether that claim was made out of humility, or to eschew responsibility for the behavior of young people, simply making the claim resulted in influencing many people for years. Maxwell suggests that the question “is not whether we will influence someone”, but rather “what kind of influencer you will be.” (Maxwell, 1993, p.4) We influence practically everyone we come in contact with because our actions are subject to interpretation and response. Maxwell tells us that “We never know who or how much we influence.”...
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...ANALYTICAL REVIEW CHAPTER 15 & 16 YUKL Leadership in Organizations (eighth edition) CAVRIL ROMBLEY 4/13/2015 Facilitating conditions for leadership development Leaders face new challenges and changes in organizations on a daily basis. In order to better prepare for these changes leaders need to continue to develop their skills and competencies. There are different leadership training programs but the effectiveness of a training program, the degree of developmental experience and self-help activities also depends on the organizational conditions (Yukl, 2013 ). What are the facilitation conditions? 1. Support by the boss The role of the leader in the organization and his/her role in facilitating leadership skills development is well documented by researchers such as Hillman, Schwandt & Bartz, 1990; London & Mone 1987 & Valerio 1990. Bosses need to treat mistakes as learning experience and provide mentoring and coaching to subordinates. Support is also important before and after training. 2. Learning climate Yukl talk about creating a learning climate by making flexible job assignments to allow learning and development, flexible work schedule to allow time to experiment with new methods, financial support, arrange workshops and skilled speakers, establish sabbatical program, career counseling program, voluntary skill assessment, pay increase dependent of development, awards for innovation and improvements and use of symbols...
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...Article Reviewed : Eliane Bacha and Sandra Walker. (2012). The Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Followers’ Perceptions of Fairness, 116, 667-680. The article “The relationship between transformational leadership and follower’s perceptions of fairness” by Eliane Bacha and Sandra Walker is to study the relationship between transformational leadership and fairness on the distributive, procedural and interactional level. The research problem being addressed is whether the transformational leader impact the fairness of follower’s perception and reduce the gap among employees. It’s clearly stated in Abstract of the article that previously no study that focused on the direct relationship between transformational leadership and fairness. The researcher starts by saying Leadership research has typically not focused effectiveness paid little attention to the extent to which leader fairness affected leaders ability to mobilize and motivate followers. What can make the fairness’s perception among followers are the element of distributive, procedural and interactional of leader. Trustworthiness, ethical and integrity can be effective influence towards transformational leaders. That’s why a transformational leader who possesses values and ethical standards is perceived to be fair by his employees since he will be fair with them on the remuneration level, will allow them to participate in the decision making process, will treat all his employees...
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...Compliance Program / Annual Procedure Review Rule 206(4)-7 of the Investment Advisers Act creates a fiduciary responsibility for investment advisers to review annually their policies and procedures to determine their adequacy and the effectiveness of their implementation. As part of this review, all policies, procedures and responsibilities of an adviser must be reviewed, and the findings documented. The review should consider all factors that might suggest a need to revise the policies and procedures including any compliance matters that occurred during the year, any changes in the adviser’s or its affiliates business activities, or changes to applicable regulations. Reviews should be conducted by independent individuals (e.g., the department manager) not immediately responsible for implementation of a particular procedure. An overall review and approval of the adviser’s policies and procedures should be completed by the Chief Compliance Officer and should be submitted to the adviser’s Management Committee or Executive Officers for Final Action. |Procedure | |Summary & |Recommended |Reviewer & | |Completion Date & | |Reviewed |Findings |Conclusions |Change/Update |Date of Review |Review by CCO |Final Actions ...
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...The goals of a literature review are to provide the reader with a critical analysis of scientific literature about a specific topic or question. Writing a summary about other works can demonstrate the depth of familiarity of a chosen topic. In order to further one's understanding, or research, studying the works of others is important because multiple disciplines may have competing explanations for a given subject. Literature review is also structured in a particular style that creates a uniform way for writers to articulate their ideas in a fashion the reader is familiar with. Craig Anderson uses the APA guidelines to create a clear structure for his review studying the effects of heat and violence. The structure of a literature review typically follows a certain format and order. In Anderson's, review Heat and Violence, he starts this process with a title that describes what the article is about. Following the title of the paper is an abstract, or overview, of what the entire article is about. Because there are a number of...
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...University of La Verne Graduate School of Business BUS 585 Strategies in Change Management Individual Research Paper: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Five Stages of Loss Xiaohan Liu Professor John C. Sivie July 11, 2013 Background Information In people’s life, it is usually to be seen that some tragedies happens. This may result in horrible experience because people have to cope with such tragedies for a long time. The tragedies may be health-related, family-related, job-related, accident-related, and so on. For example, if someone in your family is diagnosed with a chronic or terminal disease, it may be regarded as a tragedy in your life. It is not only physical accident, but also mental and emotional anguish. According to Torrey (2012), millions of new victims suffer medical mistakes and errors in healthcare every year. Hundreds of thousands die. More and more people feel debilitated for different reasons, and the medical mistakes result in life-changing, which are also tragedies. The effects of how people cope with tragedies may be a combination of physical, mental and emotional. Here is a question: if you are diagnosed with a terminal disease, or if your life quality is destroyed by a medical accident, how can you get past the anguish and grief? And what are you going to do to cope with the accident? Thus, it is necessary to have general guidelines to help you to understand and get through the grieving process, as well as set the stage to help you begin coping. Introduction ...
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...Riverside Casino and Golf Resort / Stacy Benson Topic Title Performance Reviews NO. This title won’t work. What about performance reviews? If you were doing a simple research paper you could write about performance reviews based on research alone. In this Sr Paper you must determine the state of the art based on your Literature Review. Then you will give the background of the problem and discuss it. This must all lead to two Courses of Action (COAs; solutions) that are tied to your title and problem. You need a “product” such as a process, a plan, a strategy, a program – something that can be recommended and implemented. Problem Statement (if not finalized post a draft – focus on the "pain.") The problem is that after initial training employees are not being reviewed for current performance. Suggest that after this initial statement you add something more about the problem. Brief Topic Overview The casino is experiencing a high turnover rate of employees because after their initial training they are put on the floor without any further review. In the handbook employees are supposed to have a review after 90 days but they are not being implemented. This leaves the casino with under qualified employees that eventually terminate their employment due to not feeling able to meet the high demands. The solution to this problem, if it is the problem, is simple. Just IMPLEMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS. You can see...
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...Peer Evaluation for MKT 420 Your Name: KYRIA AHO Fill in the blanks for each team member (but not yourself) as if you were writing an evaluation or recommendation for that person. ONLY ONE TEAM MEMBER MAY BE RECOMMENDED FOR PROMOTION. Consider if you were assigned to another team, which team member you would want to be your boss. Consider who you’d like to work with again. Consider who you’d go to extremes to avoid working with if you had a say. Here is the format for peer evaluations. Include the team member’s full name (1), and be specific about (2) what the team member did or did not do. At the end, if you were employed with this person, (3) would you recommend (a) Promoting, (b) Retaining (Keep in position), (c) Retaining with counseling to improve performance or (d) firing/replacing. Please keep in mind that in most business situations, only one person in a group would likely be promoted. Thus a recommendation to promote would be reserved for the truly exceptional team member Team Member 1: LEXA CREAMER As a team member with Lexa Creamer on the team marketing plan project, I feel qualified to speak about his/her job performance. Lexa’s contribution to the project was timely and significant. She accepts correction easily and is always willing to assist in any way that she can. I believe Lexa’s strengths are enthusiasm and timely submission of her work. I believe her weakness is the lack of flexibility. Lexa had to miss some of the meetings due to time conflicts...
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...Why did we choose that particular topic or article to be reviewed? As for this assignment, our group has all agreed to choose the article titled ‘Stress Management’ as the article that we need to review. Why we chose this article is absolutely because it is easy to be reviewed. This article has much points and ideas in it. Besides, we chose this article because it is exactly and definitely related to our life as university students. So, we can easily put some ideas as our experiences to review this article. This article teaches us much about stress; what stress actually is and what do make us stressed. This article also gives us knowledge about some stress-management techniques as to overcome this particular problem. As students, we cannot run away from this problem, and we need to face it throughout our whole life as a human. Not only students, all human beings will face any kind of stress either teachers, farmers and also ministers. This article also tells us that stress is not always bad, but sometimes stress can be beneficial to us when it makes our work better and done energetically. We deeply think about how we will think to review this article so we will not face too much obstacle in order to finish this group assignment. Making notes on the article read The five articles that we choose is only about two pages each and these articles have many points and ideas to be taken and used. We need to take notes on these articles to determine which article is the best to be...
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...com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www...
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... Maxon Technologies Sales Letter Subject: Connect with this top line solution; enjoy leverage in your business while creating a classy experience in your operations. Hello, Maxon Technologies have been at the forefront of supplying Corrosion Retardant Solution across the board for various industries since the inception of the business. We help to give our customers the lift they need to recover the worn out metal surfaces of their machinery and equipment without any need for disassembling. This product is based on many seasons of research and it has been creating huge wins in the market for many years. In view of the high positive feedback it has enjoyed, we are excited to share this great information with you. Maxon CRS makes the surfaces of machines more wear-resistant. It protects metals from rust and saves you the huge maintenance costs that could be associated with this. This means that you can track your recurring expenses and redirect your resources to other exciting profit centers of your business. This is a huge win for those who understand how to navigate the tides of contemporary business. Statistics indicate that about two to four percent of most country’s GDP has been lost through the incessant wearing out of mechanical parts. This is estimated to cost about 1 557 Billion USD per year. Maxon Technologies takes your business out of this negative cycle as it is a robust component for the savvy business owner. It is important to mention that our product is easy to...
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