...Managerial Leadership- Presentation 1 Someone who you consider to be a good leader? A few reasons why we should do our presentation on that person? Marc Zuckerberg * Young Student who became a billionaire by the age of 23, his determination ensured he became successful. * CEO of Facebook, he had a vision to launch Facebook and this instantly became a massive hit, with over 500 million worldwide users. * He graduated from Harvard University, showing anything can be accomplished with hard work and networking. Jeff Bezos * CEO of Amazon.com played a vital role in e-commerce growth. * Amazon is a global business and sells a wide range of products, in 2008 he was named by US News & World Report one of America’s best leaders. * He was named Time Magazines person of the year in 1999, showing his passion to apply amazon.com to the rapid growth in internet use. Larry Page and Sergey Brin * Founders of the world’s number one Search Engine, Google.com which is used by the large majority of the world’s population. * They hit record profits and till this day have kept Google.com as the number one most used search engine on the planet, using innovation and creativity. * In 2003 both Page and Brin received an honorary MBA from IE business school from embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new business. Will be happening if the team are performing to the very best of their ability & making exactly the presentation...
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...Title: Who is the more effective leader? Executive Summary “Leadership is a complex phenomenon involving the leader, the followers and the situation” (Hughes, Ginnett and Curphy, 2012, p3). This paper will look at two leaders, one from the corporate sector and the other from the not-for-profit sector, Gail Kelly and Ian Cox. Both have developed styles of leadership to ensure they interact with their followers within particular environments and situation. Interactional framework needs to be taking into account, rather than looking at leaders, followers or situation in isolation, as this provides a complete view of the leadership process. The interactive nature of leader-followers-situation helps understand the changing nature of the leader-follower relationship and the increasingly greater complexity of situations leaders and followers face. An analysis of Gail Kelly’s and Ian Cox’s leadership styles exposes some similarities, within vastly different situations and followers. Daniel Goleman (2000) identified six different leadership styles, authoritative, affiliative, pace-setting, democratic, coaching and coercive. Both Kelly and Cox employ different styles in their attempt to gear the followers towards attainment of a goal, objectives and the fulfillment of a vision. The organisations that Ms Kelly and Mr Cox are employed have defined their leadership. Kelly heads and organisation who main goal is to make profits for its shareholders, whereas Cox’ role is...
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...differences between ethical and unethical leadership, Craig Johnson uses the metaphor of casting light and shadow where leaders who cast light facilitate ethical processes and principles and leaders who cast shadow abuse power, manipulate and are deceitful. I have had an experience of being a group with a leader who cast shadow. It all occurred during my freshman year in JMU in one of my classes. The class was assigned into groups of six people and we were to pick the leader by ourselves within our group. Since no one wanted to be a leader in our group, we decided to draw lots and came up with the leader. The leaders of all the groups were responsible to submit any quizzes or assignments of their group members at the end of class throughout the semester. All the in class quizzes were to be done in groups and were to be checked by the group leaders and the leaders were responsible to submit the score of the quizzes of their group at the end of class on a card. Our group never got a 15 out of 15. The highest we had ever got was a 14. When professor posted all the grades on canvas a week before midterm, we were all surprised to see that none of our quizzes grades were lower than 14. They were all either 14 or 15. Our group leader texted in group me that the professor decided to bump all our grades because the class averages was low. That was how our group leader manipulated us to hide the fact that he changed our grades and submitted the grades we never got to the professor. Two...
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...earned not given. To be a good leader you need to show that you will and can take care of the people you are leading. Everyone wants a leader that can take care of them and any problems that may arise. In the book Lord of the Flies there are three candidates to be leader; Piggy, Ralph and Jack. To me, the boy that would make the best leader in the book is Ralph. He has the background to be a great leader and he puts everyone else above him. He remains confident thought-out the entire book, and looks out for the wellbeing of the other boys. Qualities of a good leader are qualities that you are born with. Ralph would have made a great leader for the boys because he didn’t think about just food. He thought about things that they really needed, like shelter and fresh water. He also has the background to be a great leader. His father was a naval officer, and he knows what the boys need to survive on the island. In my own personal experiences I would be most likely to follow someone who has the background for leading and someone that is willing to be a leader....
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...Anyone can be a leader. You can find a leader within your friends, family, authorities, or even your peers. Throughout life you come across many leaders, but what makes a good leader? A good leader has tolerance, dominance, passion, respect, confidence, clarity, empathy, sympathy, and many other traits, but most of all, a good leader is honest, listens to his people, and takes charge. In Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, the story begins in Rome with the celebration of Julius Caesar’s victory over Pompey, one of his enemies. Although Caesar was considered an outstanding general by many, not everyone supported him, and some even took down celebration decorations. Cassius was among those who were disapproving of Caesar, and he even plotted to kill him. For the success of his plot, Cassius acted as though Caesar’s death would be in Rome’s best interest, but he needs credibility, which is why he reached out to Brutus, a beloved and patriotic...
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...in Changes leadership For Dr. Black Abstract There are many employees, shareholder, governments, special interest groups, and the media-who simply demand to, know. “Where is this organization going to get it there? Everyone who is a leader or wants to be a leader- of an organization, division, department or team-must be able to formulate, articulate and communicate a compelling vision if they are to engage and inspire people to follow them. They must also ensure that their followers find meaning in this vision, the context in which they operate. Gandz, J.(2009). Improving the practice of management Retrieved from www.lveybusinessjournal.com Consider all the leaders who have affected your life in some way. Think of people with whom you work-community leaders, a family member, or anyone who has had a direct impact on you. * Choose on leader you consider being effective. 1. Explain how this leader has influenced you and why you think he /she is effective. 2. Analyze what characteristics or qualities this person possesses that affect me most. 3. Create a leadership scorecard to assess this leader. 4. Critique this individual’s skills against what I have learned about leadership so far. A leader I that I consider to be effective to me is a man name Mr. Bill that is a physical Therapy who is kind, patience, courage, charisma. This man will go up and beyond his duties to help someone. He works in the physical therapy department, but this...
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...Joseph Stalin showed characteristics of a totalitarian leader because he took advantage of his people and the resources of the country. Joseph Stalin had a secret police force, Created labor camps and, killed innocent people to protect his power. Joseph Stalin took advantage of people and made a secret police force to spy on his people. The police force was called the NKVD. His secret police had informers everywhere . An informer could be anyone in Russia at the time even your best friend could be a informant. His spies would listen to people's conversations and made sure they were not plotting anything against him. Stalin used the secret police to create fear in his people. He wanted his people to live in fear so they would put up walls and not talk to people so there would be no chance of a revolution breaking out against his tyranny. I think this shows Stalin had totalitarian traits because he used a secret police force to constantly watch his people and keep them scared and uneasy. He also showed Totalitarian traits because he would do anything to protect his power....
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...Campus Universidad del Turabo Diciembre 16, 2013 MANA 450 Workshop V Effective Leadership Leadership is to guide a group of people to work together to reach goals. But do not confuse to convince and to force. Any manager can force their employees to work, but only a leader can convince them to work for a common good. When it comes to talk about leader, we have to talk about authoritarian leader, participative leader and delegative leader. All have leadership in common, but none seem between them. When you study them, you realize that they are as different between them as well as leaders by position are different from natural leaders. All leaders are leaders at the end of the road, but with different characteristics. What is a leader? A leader is a person who has the ability to convince a group of people working together to achieve set goals. Remember that a leader would not be a leader if he would not have people to follow him. There are two kinds of leaders, the leader by position and natural leader. The leader by position is leading only by the position you have in a company. That does not mean that manager or administrator knows how to be a leader and how to lead your workgroup. And the leader by nature is a person that without having a high position in the company, knows how to convince or reach their working group and help them succeed. This person could even be a seller. But that seller has the ability to manipulate the team and transmit what the manager or supervisor...
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...is part of a series which previews the new skills Amtrak’s leaders are developing as part of the Amtrak Leadership Development Excellence (ALDE), Part 1 program. Amtrak’s newest leadership development program ALDE, Part 1 uses the DiSC assessment to help our leaders improve productivity, teamwork and communication. Leadership styles may be described as: Dominance: Focus on results, the bottom line; Influence: Focus on influencing or persuading others; Steadiness: Focus on cooperation, sincerity, dependability; or Conscientiousness: Focus on quality and accuracy. DEFINITIONS Leader: A person who leads or commands a group, organization or a country. Leadership: The action of leading a group of people or an organization (guidance, control, direction, management). Leadership Traits (according to INC. Magazine) These are 9 Traits That Define Great Leadership: Many leaders are competent but few qualify as remarkable. 1. Awareness: Leaders understand the difference between managing a group and being a follower within that group. Once they accept this, it will form their image, their actions, and their communication. They will conduct themselves in a way that sets them apart from their peers--not in a manner that suggests they are better than others, but in a way that permits them to retain an objective perspective on everything that's going on in their organization. 2. Decisiveness: All leaders must make tough decisions, it goes with the job. They understand...
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... 2 Abstract What comes to mind when the words leader or leadership are heard? Usually a president, a teacher, a C.E.O, a work supervisor or a prime minister comes to mind. Well these are people who are considered to be leaders because they work to achieve a positive change for a particular organization or community. Leadership is the process in which a particular individual influences others to achieve an objective or a common goal. This paper will explain what the term leadership means, the key factors that make up a true leader and the impact as well as the importance that leadership has in our lives. LEADERSHIP 3 Leadership describes the influence certain individuals have on others to carry out a specific objective or goal. According to authors Susan Komives, Nance Lucas, and Timothy McMahon (2007); “leadership is a relational and ethical process of people together attempting to accomplish positive change” (p. 2). This practically means that leadership is mostly about the kind of relationships a person has with others. Personal awareness and personal development are key to learning leadership, which at the end it focuses on the development of relationships with others. A leader is not someone who just tells someone else what to do, or someone who makes up rules, a true leader is someone who develops a good relationship with a group of people, and eventually...
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...INTRODUCTION [pic] There is no leader without at least one follower. Yet the modern leadership industry, now a quarter-century old, is built on the proposition that leaders matter a great deal and followers hardly at all. Good leadership is the stuff of countless courses, workshops, books, and articles. Everyone wants to understand just what makes leaders tick—the charismatic ones, the retiring ones, and even the crooked ones. Good followership, by contrast, is the stuff of nearly nothing. Most of the limited research and writing on subordinates has tended to either explain their behavior in the context of leaders’ development rather than followers’ or mistakenly assume that followers are amorphous, all one and the same. As a result, we hardly notice, for example, that followers who tag along mindlessly are altogether different from those who are deeply devoted. In reality, the distinctions among followers in groups and organizations are every bit as consequential as those among leaders. This is particularly true in business: In an era of flatter, networked organizations and cross-cutting teams of knowledge workers, it’s not always obvious who exactly is following (or, for that matter, who exactly is leading) and how they are going about it. Reporting relationships are shifting, and new talent-management tools and approaches are constantly emerging. A confluence of changes—cultural and technological ones in particular—have influenced what subordinates want and how they...
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...the perfect leader and does he or she exist. * The shape of the perfect leader he or she must have: i. A vision of the future (where are we going) ii. The ability to encourage followers to jump into that experience (work through the many changes that are required to achieve that vision). iii. Make a self-improvement for themselves and their followers. It can make them to be a good coaches and mentors. iv. Empowering their followers to get things done (delegates). * There are no perfect leaders because a good leaders always trying to improve themselves through self-study, education, mentorship, making mistakes and then learning from that mistake. These statements give us the answer that the perfect leader does not exist. The perfect leader should not think that they are the perfect one because they should improve their qualities by learning from the situational and their followers. * Even though there is NO perfect leader, the GOOD LEADER still exist. That means the good leader requires deep human qualities, beyond conventional notions of authority. A good leader would be able to identify the organizations goals or specific targets. The leader than should be able to impart these goals to his team members and commit them to work hard and intelligently to achieved the desired organizational goals. 2. Does a leader need to be motivated? How can leaders maintain themselves to stay motivated? * Great motivation secret of GREAT LEADERS. * A leader...
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...Goleman defines a leader as a person who identifies a human need and designs a solution to meet the need.Most leaders in our workplace are very competent when it comes to leadership roles but always lack the human aspect of leadership.Research have shown that mist outstanding leaders in organizations are those who can combine emotional intelligence and rational leadership.Many leaders who are excellent are denied promotion to senior positions because they lack the human aspect of leadership. Emotions are part of the human makeup.The position and the structure of the human brain makes man an emotional being who always considers his feelings more than his thoughts. Goleman(1998)discusses five component of emotional intelligence. The fist part that Goleman explains is self-awareness.Leaders should know and access their mood to ensure it matches our values.Most leaders rarely consider their attitudes as to what is going on their life and whether their attitude will affect the overall decision they make,They are always thinking of what to do the nest minute and over the years without considering their moods and weather the feelings will affect the overall decision they make. When a leader is able ti access himself in terms of decisions, he needed to take he can integrate the decision he is made with his core values and mission in life. Self-awareness serves as a form of an assessment to leaders as good leaders can know their strengths and weakness as such makes them focus on doing...
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...qualities associated with a level five leader. Level 5 leader’s are self motivated and have a clear defined mission; take the current state of a company and create a financially, successful and sustainable organization his own needs are seen as secondary. Prior to Executive A becoming the CEO the company was losing millions each year due to low stock value. During the second quarter after taking the position as CEO the company posted a profit as the value of the company stock increased by 128% as stated in the given and level 5 leadership. A level 5 leader is confident in their abilities to identify and surround themselves with the right people and then delegate. These leaders are not interested in monopolizing the work but in molding people who are contributors to the success of the company. Executive A takes pride in developing strong leaders which are qualities of a Level 5 leader. This leader is humble and does not have the need to be noticed or recognized for his/hers sizeable contributions to the company, the mere fact that the company is successful is enough. Executive A in the given has been credited and praised by the media for the financial growth and success of the company but is humble and often gives credit to the team leaders of the company, these are qualities as defined of a level 5 leader (MSG, 2011). Leader B’s profile as described in the given has qualities associated with a Transactional Leader. Transactional leaders see themselves as in charge and those...
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...relationships (Dachler 1988). Current theoretical approaches on leadership research is concern about a greater extent role of leadership research which describe and give some understanding and recommends for effective leader behaviour and normative models. They focus more on explanations of leadership processes, describing leader behaviours, and present why behaviours occur in certain situations. If there are behavioural recommendations are available it means this is usually done more carefully and rarely without any philosophy that anything is possible. Current leadership theories are accepting the limits which have leader influence. "The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."(Amos Parrish). Leader is a "person who rules or guides or inspires others"(Andrew, 2007). A leader is a person having personality which others want to follow him. They may not always make right decisions but they are confident in hte decion making and they know when they should change their directions and why. Even after a few mistakes a leader will not lose his or her follower's confidence . Leaders are recognised, not chosen or selected. In short, leaders have something extraordinary in their personality to inspire their followers. They have the qualities that the others dont have. It is an...
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