Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani give in his book, appropriately called “Leadership”, his personal view on the important factors that should encompass leadership. In sixteen chapters he shares the views he learnt over the length of his career in combination with striking examples of his own professional and personal life. When he started to work on his book in the spring of 2001, also his last year of his term as mayor of New York, he did not know that his leadership qualities would be put to the test on last time in September of that year. When on September 11th 2001, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, mayor Giuliani was in the middle of it all. Not only figuratively, being the mayor of the City, but also literally. He found himself near the sight when the planes hit the tower, and had to run for his life when the first tower collapsed. The events that happened that day and in the days after 9/11, made mayor Giuliani decide to add his experiences during this period to his book. He added two additional chapters, one at the beginning and one at the end. The chapters describe how he experienced the events that happened that day and how the city recovered in the weeks following 9/11. These chapters, like the rest of the book, have a narrative style to them. They show what kind of decisions Giuliani had to make as a leader, but also what he experienced and felt as a person. Although these two chapters do not give the reader any real lessons in leadership, it definitely adds value to the rest of the book. It presents one of the most extreme situations a leader can find himself in and how to deal with such a situation. It complements the other chapters by acting as an example, on top of the examples given already, to help explain the views Rudolph Giuliani has on leadership. As such, these chapters are of no direct relevance for the purpose of this…
References: Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and practice (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.…
In this paper you will read about how Costco uses effective leaders within its company to empower their employees and create a working environment that is enjoyable. This paper will aim to answer three questions: 1.) How does the flexible leadership theory apply to Costco’s operations? 2.) What is the CEO’s role in all of this? 3.) Can this work in your organization? If not, why?…
Leadership research has been extensively done to improve leaders in the way they lead. There are two researchers that have formed models to guide leaders in different approaches or behaviors according to the situation that he or she is in.…
References: Leadership: Theory, Application, and Skill Development, chapter 1, Robert N. Lussier, Ph.D., Christopher F. Achua, D.B.A, 2007…
As indicated in the text, substitutes for leadership is a theory that “diminishes or replaces the influence of leaders” (Ivancevich, Konopaske, & Matteson, 2014, p. 435). This can be translated as having other variables that can be utilized in place of a leader or leadership thus acting as replacements that would make a leader’s influence impossible. The leadership neutralizers theory suggests that it’s “something that makes it impossible for leadership to make a difference meaning leaders tend to be less influential under certain circumstances” (Ivancevich, Konopaske, & Matteson, 2014, p. 435). Those 3 circumstances include: “if subordinates have high levels of training or experience and are independent and professional, tasks are routine…
As program work relies on others to be accomplished, internal and external factors of the program environment can wreak havoc on stability and clarity in not only the objectives but how to achieve them. Two attributes that I contend are valuable at L4 competence for program managers to exhibit are: O2 – Approach to conflict and divergence and E6 – Attitude to Scope.…
References: Curtis, Kent, Manning, George (2009). The Art of Leadership, VitalSource eBook for DeVry University (3rd Ed). Pearson Learning Solutions. Retrieved from http://devry.vitalsource.com/#/books/0077589327…
References: Northouse, P. (2010). Leadership: Theory and practice (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.…
1. What qualities do you possess that you think will assist you in working as a BLIND leader? Leadership can be a characteristic given to certain pioneers of a specific craft; however, leadership can be broken down into several other qualities and traits that all make up the property of leadership. I have been fortunate to develop some key qualities that all lead to the evolution of leadership. I have been involved in theatre since I started middle school.…
McNamara, C. (1997). Guidelines to Understand Literature About Leadership, Retrieved February 25, 2007, from http://www.managementhelp.org/ldrship/ldng_lit.htm #anchor4293599590…
This paper is primarily from the conclusions derived from the self assessments that were given through the online assignments for the course. The primary source that was used to measure these evaluations were completed from the Self-Assessment Library: Insights into Your Skills, Abilities, and Interests, book by Stephen P. Robbins, These evaluation tools measured things such as one’s creativity level to one’s optimism. While some of the results were expected, there were some results that completely took me by surprise.…
References: Northouse, Peter G. (2010), Leadership, theory and practice, fifth edition. SAGE Publications. Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.A.…
The purpose of this paper is to explain leadership theory that I prefer to use. This paper will describe leadership theory, rationale and theory influence to staff. There are different leadership therapies that we use at our work. In this paper, I Preferred Leadership Theory and Description of Theory about cognitive resource therapy.…
Leadership and management style have proven to be important factors in the effectiveness and development of an organization. (Blake, 1991) argues that leadership and management style influences levels of motivation, performance and commitment within a business. This essay using Richard Branson and Michael O’Leary as case study examples, aims to discuss how the state of affairs within an organization can be attributed to different leadership styles and behavior.…