There was an earthquake in California. Your facility and team were impacted. News of your imminent merger was just leaked by a young, ambitious journalist who caught your CFO off guard at a networking event. Your CEO is being led out of your building in handcuffs. Related:  These examples could all be real. Companies face such scenarios daily, and some are serious enough to bring down companies. The most recent […]

Eric Chen Speech1 2/21/13 Politician Mitt Romney once said, “Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. ” All of us want to accomplish something in our lives; we want to be leaders of our own, in order to do that we have to stop making excuses. I looked through the internet and I got information about leaders in our society and I researched one […]

This article examines the problem of ethics and leadership in Nigerian Universities from the perspective of inter-personal relationships between staff and students, and the implications for attaining the goals of the Universities and the wider society. In a broad introduction, it laments the crisis of state and society in Nigeria, while locating and explicating ethics and leadership as crucial elements of a university. The findings […]

The “Ah Hal” moment is distributed leadership actually did happened in my past appointment as the Course Commander in the Engineer Training Institute (ET). Being selected in the appointment and the most senior in rank, I naturally assumed the position of the leader with my subordinates taking Instructions from me. However, for certain events such as organizing of unit’s Chinese New Year event, managing of […]

The leadership trends in today’s contemporary society is changing from the once egocentric, standoffish and unapproachable of leaders to a present humble, servant style leadership. Today’s leaders have got the adaptive capacity, which means they have the ability of find meaning by processing new and emerging experiences. This is considered a good thing because a capable leader should be one who responds to current critical […]

The scientific study of leadership began in the 20th century. Since becoming a recognized academic discipline, the study of leadership has inspired a number of important conceptual models. Theories and models of leadership have supported the concept of leadership. Each of these models or theories has their own merits and demerits. These theories have been developed through several stages of evolution ranging from great man […]

| Q1 1 Assess the main features of managerial work and explain/outline the main roles and activities of managers within Scotia Airways. Managerial work: * The business agenda: defining plans & budgets; setting timetables; taking action; allocation resources, whether people, machines, materials * People development: organising the workforce; developing structure & allocating the right people to tasks; developing procedures and policies * Doing: taking control; […]

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the claim that women require a different set of leadership skills to men if in the business world. In seeking to answer this question we explore a number of relevant academic theories and models. In particular, we consider the Centered Leadership Model developed by Joanna Barsch and colleagues at McKinsey and Company. Drawing on this model, we provide a critical […]

Controlling compares to see If goals are being achieved. A. I. Actual performance to competitor performance a. Ii. Planned performance to standard performance a. Iii. Actual performance to planned performance a-lb. Standard performance In Ideal performance 2. For managers, communication can’t be overemphasized because requires communication. A]. Planning a. Al. Decision;making a. Iii. Everything a manager does a. Iv. Supervising and monitoring employees 3. Which […]

LSI GM591 Leadership and Organization Behavior September 9, 2011 According to my LSI, my Primary personal thinking style is avoidance at 80% and my back-up personal thinking style is affiliative at 75%. I agree with my primary personal thinking style, avoidance and my back-up personal thinking style, affiliative. With the avoidance style, I can live life more positively and I can confront the people that […]