Throughout my life I have been influenced in my leading style by many amazing leaders who I one day aspire to be like. The main influence on my leadership has been my mother, who is a teacher and an amazingly invested leader. She is dedicated to the growth of the people she leads and teaches them to be advocates for themselves and gives them room to learn to develop their own ideas. She is a firm believer in the idea of stewardship, and cares about and gets to know the students she leads. I have
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My Leadership Philosophy Dictionary.com defines leadership as the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group. I will go in-depth on leadership and how I feel it should be achieved in hopes that you will grasp my vision for leadership. I will be explaining what I consider an importance to leadership and describing the aspects I want to improve in my own leadership style. There are many different leadership styles: transactional, laissez-faire, and coaching to name
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In this paper, I will briefly describe the transformational leadership style and the moral leadership style. Next, I will compare and contrast how a city manager embodying each style might respond to the management dilemma in the scenario, "A Matter of Style." Lastly, I will explain at least one insight you have or conclusion you can draw about leadership styles and/or approaches as a result of this comparison. A transformational leader is one that has the ability to change the culture of an organization
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“Leadership” is a word that has been used for the likes of people from Julius Caesar to Gandhi. Commonly-cited aspects of leadership include charisma, knowledge, and influence. While every good leader has at least one of these characteristics, to me leadership is simply making order in chaos. This is especially true with command of a group of people. A crowd of people is chaotic, with each person having his or her own opinion, thoughts, and mindset. The job of a commanding officer in the military
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concept,"If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge.", This is like growing up in my neighborhood, in which they placed a police chapter. Teenagers were recruited to be like little deputies, basically to interact with the police. This basically convinced the community that we are all in it together to solve the problem of crime. In New York City it all started with Mr. Bratton who thought that crime could be tame. He indentified
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place in Ferguson, Missouri where teen Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer and eventually led to riots in the streets. These events happened because multiple media outlets decided to tell the public details about the shooting before any actual investigation could figure out what happened. The media kept spitting out information about the incident that made the Ferguson police department look bad. The police department could not defend themselves from these accusations because they
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Local, State and Federal Police Organization Management Issue Trends CJA/394 Local, State and Federal Police Organization Management Issue Trends As Robinson (2009) reveals, policing has dramatically changed within the last three decades. While the majority of departments and officers (Robinson, 2009), reportedly 75% serve local towns and cities and thereby comprise a tier of the local government, these departments have been increasingly challenged to meet the changing needs
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| Racial Profiling Basics Picture yourself traveling to your workplace on a regular day. You are following all of the traffic laws, most importantly the speed limit. Your car is in the best condition it could ever be in, essentially new. To your surprise you see red and blue lights coming up behind you. Next thing you know, you are being pulled over. The officer walks up to the car and simply by his tone of voice you can sense he suspects you of something. He starts giving you the basic questions
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As we discovered in Project 1, Little Louie, Billy Bad Boy committed a string of crimes, initially resulting in an attempt to rob Commercial Corruption, a local bank. The two alleged criminals were apprehended by the police and informed of their rights. Here, I will identify the specific role that each played with the particular crime, the elements that lead to this conclusion, and the potential defenses the defending party might assert and any inconsistencies that might arise with these defenses
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Studies in Maryland yielded similar results for all minorities Howie Becker – the group creates rules and people that break those rules are labeled outsiders and deviants. Moral Entrepreneurs – people that make a career out of enforcing morality eg. Police Primary deviance – committing a deviant act before the rules are formed. You aren’t stigmatized as being deviant. Person who performs the act thinks he is normal. Eg. A one year old stealing candy and not knowing it is wrong Secondary deviance –
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