...How successful a military leader was Haig? Explain your answer. I think Sir Douglas Haig was not a very successful military leader. Although he did have some achievements, but compared to his mistakes on leadership, I think it’s not enough to say he was a great leader. Some people argue that death is a part of the war, and that “British generals were not uncaring but they accepted, as they had to, that the very nature of the war, would lead to many deaths however hard they tried to avoid them. ” However we might want to question this statement. Did Haig really try hard to avoid death? If we look closely at the battle plan for the Battle of Somme one would hardly agree. Firstly, Haig assumed a seven-day-bombardment would make the German trenches so deserted that “not even a rat would live”, however he was proven wrong. Also he told the soldiers to walk towards the German trenches; they did, however the Germans simply aimed the machine guns at them and this turned into a suicidal mission. In order to minimize the casualties, he could’ve talk to the soldiers at the front and would know right away that machine gun shells will not beat barbed wire into pieces. In fact, it would only pick it up and through it onto the floor, often in a bigger mess than before… No, he didn’t do any of that. He simply sat kilometers behind the frontline, knowing nothing about the real trenches save the limited intelligence he gets daily. Another piece of evidence that one may argue is Haig’s biography...
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...found and wish them the best; however, in the backs of our minds we all think the same thing “I hope they make it”. However, over the years divorce has become more commonplace. Victims of this problem in marriage are the children which are left to become pawns on the chess boards of the legal system. The arguments over visitations, summer vacations and child support seem to take more of a toll on the little minds of the broken family than most parents realize. In the military divorce is more common than in civilian life. While the Army has taken steps to ensure that the spouse is protected. Those in the higher ranks have found ways around this. This is unfortunate because a woman who has devoted over ten years of marriage and sacrificed her life’s goals to follow her husband for God, Family and Country. At the end of the divorce she could literally be left with nothing and no means to support her children other than child support. After reading this some may argue that there are those who look to latch on to the military system for nothing more than a means to support their lives and receive a monthly check from some young joe who did not know better going into the marriage, I would agree. Currently, we are talking about those who have spent the better part of the marriage supporting the husband and due to circumstances beyond their control the marriage has fallen apart. An example of this scenario is currently happening out of Hawaii with a First Sergeant in 130th engineer brigade...
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...MILITARY LEADERS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AMERICAN MILITARY TRADITION, AMERICAN CULTURE, AMERICAN WAY OF WAR, AND THE EXHIBITING OF CHRISTIAN VALUES ***** ******* HIUS 380– Spring B02 March 11, 2016 The United States of America has exemplary Divisions of Armed Forces where many outstanding members have stood courageous and resilient in their service to this country and the protection of others. General John J. Pershing, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and General Matthew B. Ridgway are three of the military leaders which this paper will depict and associate while expounding upon the way each contributed to the American Military Tradition. Continuing in how these individuals were or were not representative of an American culture or an American Way of War as interpreted in this course of study. Also, an opinion will be offered regarding such persons as to whether or not each was an appropriate Christian role model. No matter the similitudes or dissimilarities of the individuals each will prove to be distinguished and accomplished in their innovative and outstanding leadership and service to this country. Military Tradition in the United States of America is a frequent reference to relationship and affiliation through the ancestral line of a serviceman and an individual’s advancements and accomplishments as soldiers. American Military Tradition will endeavor itself to change as new technologies and ideologies transpire. The reflection of change or enhancement will reveal through...
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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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...aspect of today's business. Leader can be described as a person who guides and supports his subordinates to achieve a common goal. Leader should possess a number of specific skills that may help him to organise and direct a group of people. Successful leadership requires a range of special qualities, such as communication skills or an ability to work under pressure. Three recent articles (Cappelli et al. 2010, Ladkin and Weber 2011, Useem 2010) have analysed a variety of characteristics of successful leaders. However, all three authors analyse this topic from the different perspectives. While the reflection by Useem is related to the military view, the reports by Ladkin & Weber and Cappelli et al. focus on the attributes of successful leaders in conditions of Hong Kong tourism industry and Indian business respectively. All authors concur that one of the most important factors for outstanding leadership is an connection with a team. This review will compare these articles in regard to three main aspects of successful leadership, focus on mission, team work and making decisions. All three articles provide an idea about establishing company’s mission as a top priority. Cappelli et al. and Ladkin & Weber point out that taking a long-term view is a crucial for the success of the organization (Cappelli et al. p.92, Ladkin&Weber p.278). At the same time, Useem argues that even though ‘focus on mission’ is one of the most important principles for leaders, they should always take into...
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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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