Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

Yukl, G. (2012) described leadership as the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what and how things are accomplished.  “It is the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to achieve shared objectives” (p. 7).  I t is of utmost importance to discuss various ways of how leadership is defined to analyze and assess the effectiveness and different approaches to leadership.  Yukl (2012) indicated that leadership has many diverse modes of denotation at various individuals where behavioral scientists and practitioners believed that leadership is a vital phenomenon that it can be defined variously.   Definitions of leadership are mostly reflecting the assumption that involves a process whereby intentional influence is exerted over other individuals in guiding, structuring, and facilitating activities and relationships in a group or organization (Yukl, 2012). Leadership needs to provide their workforce opportunities to accomplish mo...

            According to Brown (2011), a strong culture can be depicted by an organization’s fundamental values shared by the leadership, employees, and stakeholders.  When the majority of the members share the company’s core values, the greater their steadfastness thus resulting to a stronger culture.  A strong culture could produce in employees and stakeholders passionate engagement is creating and supporting the organization’s vision, mission, and values or norms.  The organization’s culture impacts its growth, finances, level of risk-taking, internal communication, and innovation.  Strong culture establishes what the clientele’s expectations are from the company and if they can together create a healthy business relationship.             I can certainly relate with McChrystal and McIngvale on the leadership approaches they have taken to the success of their team.  As a l...

Many organizations benefit greatly when their workforce can collaborate to achieve organizational goals and have the capacity to get to know each other and understand how to work cohesively.  There are a variety of ways that teamwork can be vital to the success of an organization as well as developing the abilities and skills of the workforce.  Team-building and developing self-managed work teams are some of the ways that can increase the communication skills of the employees and also improve staff’s morale and productivity.  Enabling employees to solve their problems, making decisions, devising innovative determinations, and letting them feel that their contributions to the company are valued, is a form of employee empowerment. According to Brown (2011), self-managed work teams is a self-governed group where members of the team are responsible for deciding how their responsibilities can be accomplished and self-policing is the norm of the group.  Self-managed wor...

What defines success or failure of today’s organization is the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall behavior of an organization.  To be globally positioned in a competitive edge, it is imperative that organizations embrace change to meet the needs of their customers and stakeholders and retain highly skilled employees.  The organization’s leadership has an empirical need to identify a new set of desired behaviors and develop a strategic plan that collectively leads to its organizational behavior that is effective and efficient to achieve its stated goals and improved organizational performance.  Whatever the new final set of desired behaviors are, top management has to decide to proceed implementation of the identified need set of behaviors, develops the plan on how it has to be achieved and provides resources for the change initiative.  Supervisors lead and facilitate the employees to perform desired behaviors that will result in improved effectiveness and...

Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Computer and founder of NeXT is one of the effective leaders that I believe that inspired me to aspire to develop my leadership traits, skills, and ability.  Jobs is what can be described as the epitome of an excellent leader who was a company builder and motivator.  He was the type of a leader who thinks, acts and communicates from the outside in.  Jobs believed in the “why” behind they were doing, and they put those “whys” into not just words but actions, in short, they led by example and lived it.  He believed in building a company like Apple and NeXT from the heart and not just to gain revenues. Based on the result of my management assessment profile, like Jobs, I am highly motivated by challenges as well as highly motivated to exceed in reaching goals may it be personal or in my profession.  I will be an excellent addition in a large dynamic business environment like Apple or NeXT.  Steve Jobs value consensus from hi...

Wujec’s (2010) description regarding the newly graduated kindergartens’ process of building the marshmallow tower made sense.  The kindergartens built prototypes after prototypes ensuring that in every prototype, the marshmallow is on top giving them multiple chances and experience in fixing their prototypes until they have successfully created the highest and most impressive marshmallow towers.  Children by nature do not have the inclination the things are not impossible to achieve, and that everything is attainable.  Unlike the MBA students who are well versed in the things that they can and cannot achieve or do.  As Wujuec (2010) said, they have been well trained in adopting and executing a single plan.  They have experienced failures and rejections surrounded by regulations, procedures, and rules. According to Lucas et al. (2013), children can understand the causal relationships instantaneously and create far-reaching causal determination from the events ...

What defines success or failure of today’s organization is the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall behavior of an organization.  To be globally positioned with a competitive edge, it is imperative that organizations embrace change to meet the needs of their customers and stakeholders and retain highly skilled employees.  The organization’s leadership has an empirical need to identify a new set of desired behaviors and develop a strategic plan that collectively leads to organizational behavior that is effective and efficient to achieve its stated goals and improved organizational performance.  Whatever the new final set of desired behaviors are, top management has to decide to proceed with implementation of the identified needed set of behaviors, develop the plan on how it has to be achieved and provide resources for the change initiative.  Supervisors lead and facilitate the employee's  performance of desired behaviors that will result in improved eff...