...Steve Jobs is what we as a society can define as one of a kind. Jobs revolutionized the technology business through his innovative ideas and narcissistic leadership style. Although many critics described Jobs as a harsh leader, he built the world’s most valuable technology company. When compared to the sports industry, a similar personality to Jobs would be Bobby Knight, Indiana’s all-time winning basketball coach. Knight has won over nine hundred collegiate games in his career and won the NCAA Championship three times. Knight’s leadership and management had a similar style to Jobs, often associated with the words harsh, demanding, successful, and cruel. Both leaders had similar styles due to pushing the boundaries and demanding hard work and success. Steve Jobs’ critics often tend to point out the harshness in his personality. In reality, it was his personality that brought Apple to life as a company. Without Jobs’ vision, desire for perfection, and persistence, Apple could have died out or been overtaken by another technology firm. Jobs’ led with high emotion and intensity, often leading to confrontation and verbal abuse. However Jobs put it best, saying “these are all smart people I work with, and any of them could get a top job at another place if they were truly feeling brutalized. But they don’t “(Isaacson 4). People working for Jobs saw his vision and experienced the results. It was no coincidence Apple became the largest technology company in the world under...
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...University: LDR-600-0101 September 23, 2014 Case Study Analysis Paper 1: A Tale of Two Coaches Intelligence, self-confidence, and determination are the leadership perspectives that have exhibited in both Coach Bob Knight and Coach Mike Krzyzewski (known as Coach K.). Coach Knight is known as the winningest coach in NCAA men’s basketball until Duke’s Coach Krzyzewski exceeded his spot. Coach Krzyzewski played under Coach Knight when they were both at West Point and he was a graduate assistant at Indiana University under Coach Knight (Snook, Perlow, & Delacey, 2005). Coach Knight and Coach K. are very successfully college basketball coaches who has different leadership styles of pursuing and producing a competitive goal of winners. Power Bases Relied Upon Coach Knight’s power bases are relied with a tight controlling type categorized by societal detachment between him and the basketball players he coaches. His leadership role consist of discipline and intimidation, sometimes goes too far. Coach Knight’s position of power is high reflected by his regular abuse of verbal and physical punishment. Based on his regular outburst of anger when he was “under stress”, he reverted to less developed ways learning in early developments (Northouse, 2004). Coach Knight emotional capabilities consist of high self-awareness, low self-regulation, high motivation, low empathy, and low social skills. Coach Krzyzewski power bases relies on a trusting bond with each of his players. He...
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...The Tale of Coach Knight It is difficult to identify the leadership style of coach Bobby Knight among all the tirades and temper tantrums, nevertheless one will try; indeed this author remembers where she was the very day that Coach Knight hurled the notorious chair in response to his anger (Puma, 2007). As the bell rang for 2nd hour P.E. class, the conversation of the day surrounded the actions of Coach Knight and the inactions of Indiana University to discipline him. Coach Knight appears to lead by position power with his aggressive, controlling behavior; of the big five personality traits identified in Trait theory, he appears to be high on neuroticism due to his open hostilities (Northouse, 2010). He manages more than he leads as he micro-manages every area of his player’s lives both on and off the field (Puma, 2007). He also appears to be high on extraversion, although he does not appear to be either sociable or have a positive energy, he is very high on assertiveness (Northouse, 2010). He seems to be high on openness as he is highly informed about his players and his game, and high on conscientiousness due to his decisiveness and his infatuation with being in control (Northouse, 2010). The article painted a picture of an agreeable Knight from the University perspective because the University believed that he was loyal and cared deeply about his players but all other evidence points to low on the agreeable scale (Northouse, 2010; Puma, 2007). It was the position...
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...Case Study Analysis Paper 1: A Tale of Two Coaches Coach Bobby Knight and Coach Mike Krzyzewski are perhaps two of the best effective college basketball instructors in the United Sates. Nonetheless, their management types may perhaps not be beyond diverse. The question asked is, if it is beneficial to be loved or to be feared. Both of these coaches contained within these leadership viewpoints and involved the next significant theories: • Effective leaders recognize their specific expectations about human character. • By what method you manage (leadership style) is subjective to who you are (self-awareness) and the requirements of the position (situational awareness). Increasing your self- perception, ability to adapt, and situational awareness your leadership type amplifies your general array of efficiency as a lead. Bobby Knight, otherwise recognized as "The General," is the person in charge to coach the basketball team from Texas Tech University. He is a heated, aggressive individual who leads throughout intimidation and discipline, which several commentators say goes too far with his discipline. Knight was dismissed after a lengthy profession for the Indiana University because he griped an apprentice, and before that, he was recorded holding one of his team members by the collar. Afterwards, the disreputable occurrence in a match happened when Coach Knight threw a foldaway chair crossway the courtyard to object an arbitrator's decision. Mike Krzyzewski, better identified...
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...Coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K.) and Coach Robert Knight (Coach Knight) were two of the most winning and successful coaches to ever coach basketball. These men are not just known for their record wins, but for their unique leadership. They each had a unique way of leading their teams. Coach Knight was Indiana University’s head basketball coach and became a legend there. Coach K. was the head coach at Duke University since 1980. A fact of interest, both of these two men knew each other in an earlier time. Coach Knight had been Mike Krzyzewski’s basketball coach when he played for the United States Military Academy at West Point. It was there they began to build a relationship of trust and respect that would follow and remain with them throughout both of their careers and beyond, as they were also friends. Each of these men have differing ways in which they lead their teams, but there are leadership styles which they shared when it came to coaching. When taking the model which Robert Katz developed we can see there are skills that did account for their success. Coach Knight held two of the leadership traits that were professed by Katz. Those were technical skills and conceptual skills. He had the ability to know exactly was needed and how to make changes based on each individual situation. According to Katz’s model, Coach Knight did not have human skills. He was known for his roughness (e.g; using high levels of profanity and throwing objects onto the court). He did not have human...
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...Book Report Last Shot By: John Feinstein Stevie Thomas and Susan Anderson were winners of a 14 year old and under writing contest sponsored by the USA Basketball Writers Association. As top prize for their success of winning the contest they got to go to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four held in New Orleans. At the final four they would get to meet and interview players from the four universities competing in the event. In addition, Stevie and Susan had their picture taken for the cover of the Workers Journalist. Duke, St. Joes, Minnesota State, and Connecticut were the schools fighting for the NCAA Men’s Basketball championship. Susan did her report to win her contest on Coach K for Duke. Susan lived in North Carolina and was a big Duke fan. Stevie who hated Duke, wanted St. Joes to win the hoops tourney. Stevie gave his report on the Palastra; the infamous basketball arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When Stevie and Susan arrived in New Orleans where the final four was taking place, they were given media passes to the event. Stevie and Susan went to the CBS station to conduct interviews with players and coaches. Upon arriving at the station, Stevie and Susan saw Chip Graber. Chip, who was Stevie’s favorite player on the Minnesota St. roster, was having a conversation with someone. Stevie and Susan hid to listen in on the conversation. It turned...
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...teams have come up with new ways to commune visually, most teams now use iPads for play books.Teams even send film to be watch straight to each player for them to view in the comfort of their own homes. Verbal communication It has been proven that some verbal communication can be used in a negative way, some people like well known basketball coach Bobby knight used verbal communication in a harsh way with his team and co workers,causing him to be fired from his job after years of working there. [3] Using visual and verbal communication I believe are two of the best ways to get your point across to others in a good way, also it is a way for people to see you in a negative light if you can’t control your temper or attitude. Communication is one of the keys to success in your personal and professional life the way you interact and your tone can make a person feel a certain type of way about you so when you communicate make sure you are direct and clear [1] "Time Management - Entrepreneur." 2012. 18 Jan. 2016 [2] "iPad is revolutionizing playbooks - NFL.com." 2012. 11 Jan. 2016 [3] "Indiana University Fires Knight - ABC News." 2010. 11 Jan....
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...Experiment 4 Projectile Motion Introduction We examined projectile motion by observing a ball rolling down then leaving the ramp, thus becoming a projectile with a horizontal initial velocity. We measured the horizontal initial velocity using the photogate and computer. We measured the horizontal and vertical distances that the projectile traveled from the end of the ramp to when it hit the floor my using a meter stick to measure Experimental Set-Up In our experiment, we used the following: ramp, photogate, steal ball, plumb bob, meter stick, and vernier caliper. Experimental Procedure 1.At the edge of our lab table, we prepared the ramp. 2.Exactly below the launch point, we marked a point on the floor by using the plumb bob. 3.We determined the vertical distance that the ball fell (mm) from when it was launched from the ramp and fell on the floor. We then entered this in our data table. 4.We positioned a piece of paper on the floor to where the ball would land. We put the carbon paper above the paper and taped them to the floor. 5.We fixed the photogate so the ball rolled out and the light beam was blocked and unblocked. The photogate was plugged into the LabPro Dig/Sonic1 port. 6.We opened up the One Gate Timing from the Logger Pro folder. 7.We measured the diameter of the ball with the vernier caliper and recorded it in the computer so that it could calculate the ball’s launch velocity. 8.We launched the ball from a specific height from the ramp so that the ball...
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...The first half of the book was very interesting and at times a thriller to find out what Knight would do next. In chapter one it starts off as a normal day at Indiana University, rainy and cold. Knight didn’t want to go through another season like he did before and he was going to do whatever it takes to make sure that it would never happen again. He just got done coaching maybe the best Olympic team in history to a losing season with IU. This chapter pretty much talks about what Knight was going to do to prevent the season from going under to the interdiction of the players and how Knights practices were. This chapter like its title describes Knights ever so close ballet with the brink of going under again. Chapter two is about his coming to coach the Olympic team to the end of that and the reactions Knight got through his outburst as a coach. From just screaming at officials and players, to tossing a chair in the middle of a game that nearly cost him his career this chapter is mainly about the rise and fall of Knight before the season to come. Chapter three starts off right before the off season is about to start with the team practicing to fix what happened the year before and although Knight would never admit it that season changed him for the rest of his career. Also in this chapter the team goes on a trip to play exhibition games overseas. Chapter four starts off on October 15 and this is the most important day for college basketball because now the coaches can be on the...
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...Samurai and Knights DBQ Imagine two places in different parts of the world doing almost exactly the same thing and none of them know of the customs. This is what happened in Europe and Japan with their armor,codes,and the feudal society. “Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds”(OI). The similarities between the knights and samurai can be seen in their armor,training, and the feudal society of both Europe and Japan. First of all, the armor of the knights and samurai was similar. In both cases, it was used to protect the body (Doc.D). They both had helmets that covered the whole face (Doc.D).The samurai and the knights had their armor made out of 8 to 12(Doc.D). The weapons were similar too they both use...
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...Castles and Knighthood Castles a) This is a typical castle, its name is Harlech. a) Questions about the features of a castle Q: What was the moat for? A: The moat was mainly used to stop enemies from reaching the walls but its other use was to make a reflection of the castle in order to make it look bigger. Q: What is a drawbridge? A: A drawbridge was a defensive mechanism that allowed access to the castle by providing a temporary bridge across the moat. This bridge can be withdrawn in the case of an attacking force; this was done with a winch. Q: What were castles made of? A: Stone, mortar and wood. These were the simple components used to construct some of the most heavily fortified structures ever created. Q: Where did the stone used to make the castle come from? A: The stone came from local mines or quarries if possible. If stone was scarce they would carry it long distances by water or on land by oxen. Q: What was the roof made of? A: The roof was made from slate tiles and shale. Q: Where were castles built? A: Prime locations for castle construction include high, rocky ground, mountain passes, isolated peninsulas and lake islands. Q: How big were castle walls? A: To withstand besieging, castle walls were sometimes constructed to be up to 30 feet (9 metres) thick. Stone curtain walls were constructed anywhere between 20 and 40 feet high. Q: How high were the towers in the castles...
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...Raising Troops Code of the Samurai by Taira Shigesuke and The Methods of the Ssu-Ma (author unknown) both focus a lot on a sort of “code” for warriors during warfare. My question is what is the best way to raise troops? These two readings explain different answers to my question, but to answer it myself I would say the best way to raise troops would be to not focus solely on things such as strength or marksmanship, but to focus also on the mindset of a troop and how to pull through in times of difficulty and how to respect warfare and their unit and how to face fear and overcome obstacles. Taira Shigesuke writes about how, first and foremost, a warrior should consider it his first concern to keep death in mind at all times. But you don’t just have a duty to the military; you have to fulfill your loyalty to your family as well. Unlike the warrior ways described in the Ssu-Ma, Samurai warriors focused day and night on their duties as a warrior, whether they were a farmer, or merchant, etc. They always carried a sword with them as to always be prepared and keep death in mind at all times. Education was not important early on, and even 12 and 13 year olds were learning martial arts instead of focusing on becoming literate. Their sole focus was the way of a warrior. Now, however, those born in the present era focus on literature and reading and writing from the time they are seven or eight in times of peace. A big difference between the Ssu-Ma and the code of the Samurai is...
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...The Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas _________________ Applying the Lessons of History to Modern Police Leadership Training _________________ A Leadership White Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Required for Graduation from the Leadership Command College _________________ By Kenneth W. Sidenblad Bee Cave Police Department Bee Cave, Texas Date Submitted (month year) ABSTRACT Law enforcement continues to move in the direction of a profession and away from being only a vocation. Police officers of today are better trained and educated than at any time in the past. This demands police leaders be up to the challenge to lead them. Law enforcement leaders must enhance their knowledge and incorporate training ideas in use by other professions. Applying lessons from academic subject material is an important part of leadership development in many professions, and should be emphasized in training future police leaders. This will enable law enforcement leaders to develop as leaders in a profession. One academic subject used in other professions to develop leaders is the study of history. History provides a wealth of material from which valuable insights and examples of leadership may be drawn from. Lessons drawn from history are used by other professions to enhance the quality of leadership within those professions. Leadership lessons from history should be incorporated into modern police leadership...
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...Samurai & Knights Where the similarities between samurais and knights are greater than the differences? Yes they had shared more similarities than differences. The Samurais What were the characteristics of the samurai culture?The samurais had many unique cultural characteristics. One of the samurais characteristics or the cultures is that they had a social pyramid.The samurais are the 4th on the social pyramid.The samurais are skilled warriors who owed loyalty and military service daimyos for land or regular payment with families ,made up of 10% of japanese population.The only reason that the samurais had a social pyramid is because to show how Japan was structured. Another cultural thing the samurais had to do was that they had to follow a certain code.The code that they had to follow was “Honor empathized and loyalty and bravery above all else.” The reason they had to follow the code of the conduct is because this is a skilled warrior’s way. The Knights...
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...The Knight in Swastika Night is a very powerful and important man in the Nazi empire. He is a part of the Knight’s council, which are the most powerful people and the leaders of the empire. Alfred is very different from the knight because he is an English Nazi. The Nazi’s have taken over all of the Eastern world including England, so Alfred is a part of the Nazi Empire but the Nazis still call them Englishman because they are outcasts from the prototypical German man. The German people see Englishman as their inferior. The Germans have been taught that Englishman are only a little above animals in the social hierarchy of the world. The two men have a very difference of opinions regarding some of their beliefs and ideas of the world, but actually...
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