Mgt 3220 - Leadership in Organizations
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MGT-3220 Leadership in Organizations
Discussion Questions
1. How would you define Leadership?
Leadership is a process through which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a manner that makes it more cohesive and coherent.
2. What is the difference between manager and leader?
Managers:
* Administer
* Maintain
* Control
* Have short-term view
* Ask how and when
* Imitate
* Accept the status quo.
Leaders:
* Innovate
* Develop
* Inspire
* Hve a long-term view.
* Ask what and why.
* Originate.
* Challenge the status quo.
3. Describe the best leader you have personally known or a favorite leader from history, a novel or a movie.
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco, commonly known as Simón Bolívar, was a Venezuelan military and political leader.
Simon Bolivar was a soldier in South America who was instrumental in the revolution against Spanish rule. Who was born in in a rich family, Bolívar was sent to Spain for their education, before deciding to plunge into the political realm in Europe. After France invaded Spain in 1808, became involved in the resistance movement and played a key role in fighting for the independence of Spanish America.
4. Would you consider it a greater compliment for someone to call you a good manager or a good leader? Why? Do you believe you can be both?
Great leaders are great managers.
Leadership is entirely different. It is associated with taking an organization into the future, finding opportunities that are coming at it faster and faster and successfully exploiting those opportunities. Leadership is about vision, about people buying in, about empowerment and, most of all, about producing useful change. Leadership is not about attributes, it's about behavior.
Managers climb the corporate ladder because they are good managers. Yet, when they get to executive positions they fail because they need to lead, and unfortunately good managers rarely make good leaders. There needs to be a transition route for leaders, or a selection process, or an acceptance that leaders are different. It is difficult to develop leadership skills, meanwhile managers are attempting to protect their positions.
5. Seven (7) steps to developing a high impact development plan:
1. Career and development objectives ___________________________________________
2. Criteria for success
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