Leadership Case #2: The Personality of Leaders The Personality of Carlos Ghosn: The $10 Billion Man Read the following dossier of article extracts and answer the final questions. 1.- “The $10 billion man” Feb 24th 2005, The Economist Having turned round Nissan, Carlos Ghosn is about to run Renault as well It is said that he could add $10 billion to the market value of Ford or General Motors with a stroke of his pen. But Carlos Ghosn is not about to sign up as chief executive of either firm. Instead
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Renault – Carlos Ghosn Chao Ru chao.ru@laverne.edu University of La Verne Graduate School of Business BUS 586 – CRN 1354: Leadership for the Future Professor John C. Sivie June 28, 2012 I. Table of Contents I. Table of Contents 2 II. Background and Award of Carlos Ghosn 3 III. Important Contributes for Nissan from Ghosn 4 IV. Doing the Right Things of Carlos Ghosn 5 V. Learn from Carlos Ghosn 7 VI. References 9 Chairman and CEO of Nissan and Renault – Carlos Ghosn II
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Carlos Ghosn Carlos Ghosn, born 9 March 1954 is a Brazilian-Lebanese businessman who is currently the Chairman and CEO of Yokohama, Japan-based Nissan and holds the same positions at Paris-based Renault, which together produce more than one in 10 cars worldwide.[1] Ghosn is also Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the strategic partnership overseeing the two companies through a unique cross-shareholding agreement. For orchestrating one of the decade's most aggressive downsizing campaigns
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traits as leader Slide 5: video to explain how to be a healthy manager Slides 6: He is like a duck, because ducks are calm on the surface and pushing like crazy getting things done under the surface. Slides 7: Motivated his employee by rewards: Ghosn held a belief that employees at all levels of a company possess the solutions to the problems. Reward: opportunity and career development, give credit of all success Democratic Meet every employee, shake hands, walk around the entire company, encourage
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Carlos Ghosn weakness Looking into the weak area of Carlos’s leadership, it is very hard to find because, the results from decision he took in past always led to success. One aspect about Carlos’s style that is tough to entitle either weakness or strength as from the earliest sight it describes for the negative association, however, on the other side it has proved very effective. This aspect was his autocratic leadership style when he took over Nissan. By defining clear roles, he told his employees
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The Personality of Carlos Ghosn: $10 Billion Dollar Man 1. Describe Carlos Ghosn using the “Big Five” dimensions of personality. The Big Five: 1. Extraversion reflects the tendency to experience positive emotional states and feel good about oneself and the world around one 2. Agreeableness is the tendency to get along well with others and cooperates 3. Conscientiousness is related to the extent to which a person is careful, scrupulous and preserving 4. Emotional stability describes a steadiness
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I-Carlos Ghosn’s Management Style Carlos Ghosn, clearly an extraordinary man with an impressive list of accomplishments already under his belt at a relatively young age. But what is it exactly about his management style that makes him stand-out from other leaders, why is it that so much attention has been showered onto him? In the first part of this report that is exactly what we will try to uncover. Ghosn truly does have a unique management style, one that is perfectly suited to today’s
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Case study: Leading a Global Organization This paper will evaluate Carlos Ghosn’s approach to turning Nissan around from his appointment of COO at a very critical time in Nissan’s history. After many years of success, Nissan began facing difficulties in the 90s and Carlos Ghosn was invited to help turn the organization around. Both national and organizational culture was very strong in Nissan and made changes difficult, but Ghosn’s management style enabled him to implement the Nissan revival
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"Leading Change – Carlos Ghosn at Michelin, Renault, and Nissan Motors" case is an example of how one person was able to turn around three different companies from the brink of failure, and implement change through effective leadership. Carlos Ghosn exemplified strong leadership through three interrelated notions, one, affecting the behaviors of others, two, mobilizing employees to encourage commitment, and three, by mobilizing adaptive behaviors. His success can be attributed through the five core
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Develop and Articulate clear and consistent sense of purpose and direction for the organization Ghosn was only moderately successful in articulating an organization purpose. In presenting his first analysis of Nissan, he identified the challenge of “save the business without losing the company” while simultaneously presenting the goal of “ do everything in my power to bring Nissan back to profitability at the earliest date possible and revive it as a highly attractive company”. While the combination
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