In my opinion‚ leadership is the ability to inspire and motivate people enough for them to be willing to participate and get involved towards the achievement of a common goal. I see leadership as a process which can be improved over time and experience‚ but only by someone who has some innate leadership competences. In determining what leadership means to me‚ I decided to analyse two different leadership cases. I will firstly discuss and analyse Nelson Mandela’s leadership style‚ which appeared
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QUESTION Participative leadership style is always more effective than autocratic/directive leadership styles. Discuss. Executive summary Academic and empirical research on workplace leadership covers wide ranging information on leadership theory and characteristics that make a leader effective. The focus of this report is to identify information on behavioural and contingency perspectives of leadership. The path-goal Leadership theory is one of the anticipated contingency theories as it
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INTRODUCTION Many Nigerians were aware of the rot in the nation under the years of military dictatorship‚ but hardly knew the magnitude of the rot. As it is with the nation‚ so it is with the education sector; only those saddled with the responsibility of administering our education system can appreciate the crisis in the education system. And just as the damage done to the nation will take a long time to correct‚ sanitizing the education sector will take quite some years of continuous and determined
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In the minds of many‚ this well-known tale of Honda’s entry into the U.S. motorcycle market illustrates intuition’s power in strategic decision making. Honda’s scouts saw a discouraging picture but felt they and their firm could be successful in spite of the odds. The discouraging analyses from government officials didn’t sway them from feeling they had the resolve and capabilities required to achieve competitive success. They felt that risking some of Honda’s precious resources to pursue
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Leadership Leadership has been described as “a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task".[1] Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged. Leadership is "organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal". The leader may or may not have any formal authority. Studies of leadership have produced theories involving traits‚[2] situational interaction‚ function‚ behavior‚ power‚ vision and values
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What is the Difference Between Leadership and Management? The discussion between the differences of leadership and management has fuelled an ongoing heated debate. In acknowledging the vast differences between leadership and management‚ the aim of this essay is thus to illustrate these differences whilst displaying that they overlap. I will also explore the effects of their functions on organizations and explain that a combination of elements from both leadership and management is the most productive
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We Need to Strive Towards Leading Change in a Disruptive 21st Century Why is it so difficult to create or adapt to change in our country? Though the lessons were basically coincidental‚ the month of April 2017 was rather eventful. During the Secondary School’s Principals annual conferences‚ I traversed the various county headquarters making presentations on “Career Dynamics in the 21st Century‚” to thousands of principals. Courtesy of 10 counties‚ I found myself in Kisumu‚ Nyeri‚ Nakuru‚ Mombasa
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business. If you want ti reorganize‚ the tools used for over fifty years by the organizations under the umbrella of the Industrial Areas Foundation can help. Years ago‚ we were conducting a training session for a group pf leaders in one of our most effective and successful citizen’s organizations. The training focused on one of the most basic skills of any kind of organizing: how to organizing: how to organize and conduct a productive meeting in one hour or less. Running good meetings has long been the
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Leadership has been an integral virtue of an individual to be successful and effective in business‚ politics‚ sports or the military. It is stated by Howard (2005) that leadership can be regarded as an ability of an individual to influence a group of people to respond to organisational goals and as a means to enhance others’ performance by forming operative groups‚ motivating and giving a right direction to them. It means that‚ as far as a business is concerned‚ achieving an organisational objective
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What makes a leader effective? Our world as we know it cannot run without leadership. From presidents and prime ministers to teachers and parents‚ we are always under the leadership of others‚ and often lead others ourselves as well. For such a fundamental concept in current society‚ it is surprising that many do not know what makes a leader effective. First of all‚ leaders need to be capable people. They usually have some sort of education in the area they are leading in‚ as well as talent or
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