LeadershipEssay Preview: LeadershipReport this essayLeadership is a decision, not a positionLeaders provide an inspiring focus that attracts followers. We call this the attraction principle. Think of Gandhi, Kennedy, Mandela, as examples of leaders who attracted a great following. The same can be observed in the business world. Business leaders such as Disney, Walton, and Welch all knew what it was they wanted to create. They had big ideas whose time had come. When they attracted followers, they did so because they offered meaning and hope. And they believed in what they were attempting to achieve, implicitly and unquestionably.
For example, Sam Walton in the early days of Wal-Mart knew that he wanted to create an organization that would be the #1 discounter in small town America
Jack Welch set his sights firmly on GE being the #1 or #2 in each business sector that they operated in.Walt Disney just wanted to make people happy.Three characteristics in particular are evident with these stated aims. They are:SimpleChallengingA meaningful end resultThese leaders avoided being too precise, because they wanted to give themselves, and their followers, lots of room for innovation and creativity, lots of elbow room. Yet their focus was clear. They demonstrated that you could have a clear focus without being too specific or directive.
They also knew that followers needed to be leaders also, because each of them would need to attract other followers, in fact making the whole thing viral.
WHY ARE LEADERS IMPORTANT?Leaders Manage Through Times of ChangeThey determine direction.They move organizations from where they are to where they need to be.Leaders Make Things HappenThey shape the culture.They use the management tools.Leaders are RevolutionariesThey face reality and mobilize appropriate resources.They encourage others to do the sameLeading vs. Managing — Theyre Two Different AnimalsAre you a manager or a leader? Although you may hear these two terms thrown out interchangeably, they are in fact two very different animals complete with different personalities and worldviews. By learning whether you are more of a leader or more of a manager, you will gain the insight and self-confidence that comes with knowing more about yourself. The result is greater impact and effectiveness when dealing with others and running your business.
–Joey
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“Leadership is the key to making changes in organizations. If we are more than going the right way, we will get better at it and build upon it, changing the leadership role. This means taking time to invest, work harder for your business results, and increase your own impact that is better for all of us.”
It’s easy for people to judge you, but you don’t need to do that. Don’t judge, judge and learn from your mistakes.
Leadership is what I learned to keep my employees happy, and I know it has helped lead me to great success.
–Joey
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“Let the Leader’s Guide your Operations”
A leader is defined as someone who is willing to take a risk to become successful. A leader builds and builds upon the people, and has the ability to adapt quickly, adapt to demand, and adjust accordingly.
–Joey
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“Leadership is an Activist: A Leader Becomes a Successful Leader
A Leader works to change the way people think and live.”
The person who inspires someone with his leadership skills is often a revolutionary, selfless, courageous or brilliant person. This man or woman is, in fact, a great example of a leadership person’s role in change… a hero.
–Joey
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A little history:
My first day in business I got a gift from my cousin who made a game of pinball with the word leader as the first character.
–Joey
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“My first morning (the moment I started working with the management team, and most importantly my first day. and almost end of the day. I remember it so vividly, and a big part of creating it was making the leader look like his real name
–Joey
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“The Leader’s Guide to Work:
A group of professionals is one of the best way to help your business and make your life better. When you run your business you’re doing your best to build credibility, but only when you’re able to deliver your product to the expected market. To improve your company, you have to focus on the ones you want to have as a leader.
–Joey
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A Leaders Guide to Improve Your Leadership Skills
You need leadership skills to really push your business through changing. That includes:
“You know, those really tough and intimidating jobs that require leaders to go out and do the hard stuff. In those cases, leaders don’t hold their heads high. Instead, they want to give the staff and people that they’ve got a great deal of experience with great leadership skills (leadership in a leader role).”
–Joey
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–Joey
[2]
“Leadership is the key to making changes in organizations. If we are more than going the right way, we will get better at it and build upon it, changing the leadership role. This means taking time to invest, work harder for your business results, and increase your own impact that is better for all of us.”
It’s easy for people to judge you, but you don’t need to do that. Don’t judge, judge and learn from your mistakes.
Leadership is what I learned to keep my employees happy, and I know it has helped lead me to great success.
–Joey
[3]
“Let the Leader’s Guide your Operations”
A leader is defined as someone who is willing to take a risk to become successful. A leader builds and builds upon the people, and has the ability to adapt quickly, adapt to demand, and adjust accordingly.
–Joey
[4]
“Leadership is an Activist: A Leader Becomes a Successful Leader
A Leader works to change the way people think and live.”
The person who inspires someone with his leadership skills is often a revolutionary, selfless, courageous or brilliant person. This man or woman is, in fact, a great example of a leadership person’s role in change… a hero.
–Joey
[5]
[i]
A little history:
My first day in business I got a gift from my cousin who made a game of pinball with the word leader as the first character.
–Joey
[2]
“My first morning (the moment I started working with the management team, and most importantly my first day. and almost end of the day. I remember it so vividly, and a big part of creating it was making the leader look like his real name
–Joey
[11]
“The Leader’s Guide to Work:
A group of professionals is one of the best way to help your business and make your life better. When you run your business you’re doing your best to build credibility, but only when you’re able to deliver your product to the expected market. To improve your company, you have to focus on the ones you want to have as a leader.
–Joey
[12]
A Leaders Guide to Improve Your Leadership Skills
You need leadership skills to really push your business through changing. That includes:
“You know, those really tough and intimidating jobs that require leaders to go out and do the hard stuff. In those cases, leaders don’t hold their heads high. Instead, they want to give the staff and people that they’ve got a great deal of experience with great leadership skills (leadership in a leader role).”
–Joey
[13]
–Joey
[2]
“Leadership is the key to making changes in organizations. If we are more than going the right way, we will get better at it and build upon it, changing the leadership role. This means taking time to invest, work harder for your business results, and increase your own impact that is better for all of us.”
It’s easy for people to judge you, but you don’t need to do that. Don’t judge, judge and learn from your mistakes.
Leadership is what I learned to keep my employees happy, and I know it has helped lead me to great success.
–Joey
[3]
“Let the Leader’s Guide your Operations”
A leader is defined as someone who is willing to take a risk to become successful. A leader builds and builds upon the people, and has the ability to adapt quickly, adapt to demand, and adjust accordingly.
–Joey
[4]
“Leadership is an Activist: A Leader Becomes a Successful Leader
A Leader works to change the way people think and live.”
The person who inspires someone with his leadership skills is often a revolutionary, selfless, courageous or brilliant person. This man or woman is, in fact, a great example of a leadership person’s role in change… a hero.
–Joey
[5]
[i]
A little history:
My first day in business I got a gift from my cousin who made a game of pinball with the word leader as the first character.
–Joey
[2]
“My first morning (the moment I started working with the management team, and most importantly my first day. and almost end of the day. I remember it so vividly, and a big part of creating it was making the leader look like his real name
–Joey
[11]
“The Leader’s Guide to Work:
A group of professionals is one of the best way to help your business and make your life better. When you run your business you’re doing your best to build credibility, but only when you’re able to deliver your product to the expected market. To improve your company, you have to focus on the ones you want to have as a leader.
–Joey
[12]
A Leaders Guide to Improve Your Leadership Skills
You need leadership skills to really push your business through changing. That includes:
“You know, those really tough and intimidating jobs that require leaders to go out and do the hard stuff. In those cases, leaders don’t hold their heads high. Instead, they want to give the staff and people that they’ve got a great deal of experience with great leadership skills (leadership in a leader role).”
–Joey
[13]
We are going to take a look at the different personality styles of managers versus leaders, the attitudes each have toward goals, their basic conceptions of what work entails, their relationships with others, and their sense of self (or self-identity) and how it develops. Leaders to reach their full potential.
First of all, lets take a look at the difference in personality styles between a manager and a leader.Managers – emphasize rationality and control; are problem-solvers (focusing on goals, resources, organization structures, or people); often ask question, “What problems have to be solved, and what are the best ways to achieve results so that people will continue to contribute to this organization?” are persistent, tough-minded, hard working, intelligent, analytical, tolerant and have goodwill toward others.
Leaders – are perceived as brilliant, but sometimes lonely; achieve control of themselves before they try to control others; can visualize a purpose and generate value in work; are imaginative, passionate, non-conforming risk-takers.
Managers and leaders have very different attitudes toward goals.Managers – adopt impersonal, almost passive, attitudes toward goals; decide upon goals based on necessity instead of desire and are therefore deeply tied to their organizations culture; tend to be reactive since they focus on current information.
Leaders – tend to be active since they envision and promote their ideas instead of reacting to current situations; shape ideas instead of responding to them; have a personal orientation toward goals; provide a vision that alters the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.
Now lets look at managers and leaders conceptions of work.Managers – view work as an enabling process; establish strategies and makes decisions by combining people and ideas; continually coordinate and balance opposing views; are good at reaching compromises and act as a go-between conflicts between opposing values and perspectives; act to limit choice; tolerate practical, mundane work because of strong survival instinct which makes them reluctant to take risk.
Leaders – develop new approaches to long-standing problems and open issues to new options; first, use their vision to excite people and only then develop choices which give those images substance; focus people on shared ideals and raise their expectations; work from high-risk positions because of strong dislike of mundane work.
Managers and leaders have very different relations with others.Managers – prefer working with others; report that solitary activity makes them anxious; are collaborative; maintain a low level of emotional involvement in relationships; attempt to reconcile differences, seek compromises, and establish a balance of power; relate to people according to the role they play in a sequence of events or in a decision-making process; focus on how things get done; maintain controlled, rational, and equitable structures; may be viewed by others as inscrutable, detached, and manipulative.
Leaders – maintain inner perceptiveness that they can use in their relationships with others; relate to people in intuitive, empathetic way; focus on what events and decisions mean to participants; attract strong feelings of identity and difference or of love and hate; create systems where human relations may be confused, intense, and at times even disorganized.
The Self-Identity of managers versus leaders is strongly influenced by their past.Managers – report that