...Necessary Conditions For Leadership (Many) Sufficient Condition For Leadership (Single) E F F E C T I V E Behavior Values & Beliefs Philosophy Of Life L E A D E R In Life you will never get what you don’t want; You may be able to get what you desire Fig 1 Emergent Model of Leadership Given above is an emergent model of Leadership, this model operates at the philosophy level where the underlying thought is given at the base of the model. The left hand side of the model points to the necessary and sufficient conditions as inputs into making an effective leader . ( We shall explore later to see what may be these conditions ) . The right hand side of the model tries to articulate what goes on inside the effective leader with his philosophy of life being at the core of his operations as an effective leader . Values and beliefs form the next circle and these are manifested in behavioral attributes. With this model at a single point in time we will explore leadership over the time continuum . Deepak Pandit EFPM 08 While it is possible to consider several necessary conditions of leadership the following three emerge as clear candidate’s for inclusion in the above list in the left hand side of this model. • • • Followership Competency Vision The sufficient condition for this model is related to the core philosophy of life that the leader operates on and this is at a spiritual plane. We cannot have an effective leader...
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...裴伟捷 Strategic Management 201228207 Toyota’s strategy Toyota’s Best-Cost Producer Strategy for Its Lexus Line Toyota has achieved low-cost leadership status because it has developed considerable skills in efficient supply chain management and low-cost assembly capabilities and because its models are so well-positioned in the low-to-medium end of the price spectrum. These are enhanced by Toyota’s strong emphasis on quality. * How can product quality lower product costs? Toyota has achieved low-cost leadership status because it has developed considerable skills in efficient supply chain management and low-cost assembly capabilities and because its models are so well-positioned in the low-to-medium end of the price spectrum. These are enhanced by Toyota’s strong emphasis on quality. Toyota Best-Cost Provider Strategy appealing: * When buyer diversity makes product differentiation the norm * When many buyers are also sensitive to price and value Cost reduction can result in significant product cost saving, manufacturing cost saving, and life cycle cost saving when companies interested in cutting cost implement all 8 the elements of the following cost reduction strategy. The Cost of Quality can be 15% to 40% of revenue. The quality costs can be greatly reduced in some cases reducing quality costs can double profits It is possible to reduce the cost of quality; e.g.: eliminating quality costs starts with designing in...
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...| BT Retail | | | M Mwelase | | | Contents 1. Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………1 2. Question 1………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 3. Question 2………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 4 .Question 3…………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..9 5. Recommendation…………………………………………………………………………………………….11 6. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………………..12 7. Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………………………..12 Executive Summary BT Group a world leader in telecommunication started a new division called BT Retail. This division was providing telecommunication solutions to 21 million customers in the UK. Their first CEO, Pierre Danon, instilled a culture that saw the division excel for a number of years. This culture was driven by all top management and its employees in order to realise their set targets. The culture that was adopted by BT Retail was total quality management (TQM) throughout the organisation. This meant that all top management displayed and practised TQM. The author takes us through what is TQM and what are the principles that BT Retail instilled in order to gain customer satisfaction. The following principles were discussed: * Customer Focus * Continuous Improvement * Employee involvement and Empowerment * Systems Thinking. These four pillars made sure that BT Retail was able to reduce the cost of poor quality, through continuous improvement methods and early identification...
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...be found in our society. In the broadest sense, a project is a specific, finite task to be accomplished. Whether large- or small-scale or whether long- or short-run is not particularly relevant. What is relevant is that the project be seen as a unit. There are, however, some attributes that characterize projects: Importance: The most crucial attribute of a project is that it must be important enough in the eyes of senior management to justify setting up a special organizational unit outside the routine structure of the organization. If the rest of the organization senses, or even suspects, that it is not really that important, the project is generally doomed to fail. Performance: A project is usually a one-time activity with a well-defined set of desired end results. It can be divided into subtasks that must be accomplished in order to achieve the project goals. The project is complex enough that the subtasks require careful coordination and control in terms of timing, precedence, cost, and performance. Often, the project itself must be coordinated with other projects being carried out by the same parent organization. Life Cycle with a Finite Due Date: Like organic entities, projects have life cycles. From a slow beginning they progress to a buildup of size, then peak, begin a decline, and finally must be terminated by some due date. Some projects end by being phased into the normal, ongoing operations of the parent organization. Interdependencies: Projects often interact...
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...will describe how Edward Deming, as a quality pioneer, use of the total quality elements made him successful. The paper will conclude with an explanation of why the elements of quality remain useful and what the author foresees about the future of quality in today’s environment. Overview of Quality Quality is defined differently by different people. For example, before enrolling a child in high school, a parent may look at the Department of Education’s grade for the school, accessibility to the campus, cost of sending the child to the school, and class size. Even though the parent may not verbalize a definition of quality, the attributes she looks at are her preferences for choosing a school that represent quality in her eyes. As a consumer, the parent’s decision about the quality of the school is based on a perception of the measurable attributes of the school. Goetsch and Davis put forth a definition that they believe encompasses common elements of different descriptions of quality. They define quality as “a dynamic state associated with products, services, people, processes, and environments that meet or exceed expectations and help produce superior value” (2010, p. 5). However, some early proponents of the...
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...Module 7 – Leadership and decision-making (13%) Leadership and ethics What is leadership? Identifying leadership attributes Transformational leadership Strategic Leadership The nature of strategic leadership The role of leaders in strategic thinking and decision-making The role of leaders in strategic analysis The role of leaders in setting direction The role of leaders in strategic formulation and selection The role of leaders in implementing strategy The Naked CEO Preview Leaders are required to develop the strategy, drive the change and align the organisation’s structure, resources and culture with the strategy. There are various viewpoints about what actually constitutes the leadership, the qualities required and its level of importance. The purpose of this module is not to present and analyse these arguments, but to provide a practical approach based on the transformational leadership that focuses specially on the role of strategy and strategic leadership. Irrespective of the approach taken to strategic leadership, there exists an important distinction between leadership and management. A leader is primarily involved in: setting direction, aligning and communicating, and inspiring and motivating. A manager is primarily in charge of: planning and budgeting, organising and staffing, and controlling and problem solving. Objectives You should be able to: (1) describe the role of ethics and corporate social responsibility in leadership; (2) identify and discuss...
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...There are different approaches through which the concept of quality can be under stood. According to the product-based approach, quality is an attribute, which can be measured quantitatively. The manufacturing based approach on the other hand, uses universal definition of conformance to requirements. The value-based approach says that the consumer purchase decision is based on consistent quality at an affordable price. W. Edwards Deming defines quality as: "Pride in Workmanship" Dr. J. Juran defines quality as: "those product features which meet the needs of customers and thereby provide product satisfaction." or "freedom from deficiencies." Kaoru Ishikawa defines quality as: "total quality control, Japanese style, is a thought revolution...
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...Assessment#1- Analysis of Understanding Entrepreneurial Leadership in Today’s Dynamic Markets fobjbdema BUS508 - Business Entreprise Dr.ddddddddd Discuss the common elements described in the theories/philosophies of Case, Kouzes, and Drucker including how their principles /strategies relate to the new definition of entrepreneurial leadership presented in Understanding Entrepreneurial Leadership in today’s Dynamic Markets. In discussing the new definitions entrepreneurial leadership as presented in “Understanding Entrepreneurial Leadership in Today’s Dynamic Market its probably best to describe the climate or environment which is often illustrated as one that is dynamic market , uncertain or a very competitive market which requires innovative thinking. In this type of market the fluidity, energy, motion, constancy and ubiquitousness of changes in the market occur very frequently and head to head competition between firms is common place and the pace, magnitude and direction of change is continuously accelerated and harder to predict. Teece, Pisano and Shuen (1997) as referenced by Fernald and Solomon in their paper, described today’s dynamic Schumpeterian world of innovation–based competition, price /performance rivalry, increasing returns and the ‘creative destruction of existing compeitencies.”(p.509) "creative destruction" was popularized by and is most associated with Joseph Schumpeter, particularly in his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, first...
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...product or service (Perreault, Cannon, & McCarty, 2011). Organizational Overview Team Charlie chose the Walmart organization for completing this assignment. Walmart is one of the best known organizations in the world that have successful marketing plans and strategies. Sam Walton is the founder of Walmart and opened the first store in Rogers, Arkansas, 50 years ago in 1962 (Walmart, 2012). Currently Walmart operates in more than 10,000 retail stores under 69 diverse banners in 27 different geographic locations across the world. They service customers and members in excess of 200 million times per week with sales of approximately $444 billion continually for the fiscal year 2012 (Walmart, 2012). Sam Walton’s visionary leadership and focus point centered on helping customers and...
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...Q1. Choose the correct answer from the following: 1. Approximately what percentage of the world’s gross product is spent on projects? a. 10 percent b. 25 percent c. 50 percent d. 75 percent 2. Which of the following is not a potential advantage of using good project management? a. Shorter development times b. Higher worker morale c. Lower cost of capital d. Higher profit margins 3. A…………………….. is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. a. program b. process c. project d. portfolio 4. Which of the following is not an attribute of a project? a. projects are unique b. projects are developed using progressive elaboration c. projects have a primary customer or sponsor d. projects involve little uncertainty 5. Which of the following is not part of the triple constraint of project management? a. meeting scope goals b. meeting time goals c. meeting communications goals d. meeting cost goals 6. ………………….is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. a. Project management b. Program management c. Project portfolio management d. Requirements management 7. Project portfolio management addresses …………….. goals of an organization, while project management addresses …………….. goals. a. strategic, tactical b. tactical, strategic c. internal, external d. external, internal 8. Several application development projects done for the same functional group...
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...develop, and to lead. Innovative companies are almost always led by innovative leaders (Dyer, 2011). Leaders are people who are able to think and act creatively in non-routine situations – and who set out to influence the actions, beliefs and feelings of others (Doyle, 2001). Classical Leadership First, to lead involves influencing others. Second, where there are leaders there are followers. Third, leaders seem to come to the fore when there is a crisis or special problem. In other words, they often become visible when an innovative response is needed. Fourth, leaders are people who have a clear idea of what they want to achieve and why (Doyle, 2001). Literature over the last 80 year list four main “generations” theories of leadership which are: Trait theories, Behavioral theories, Contingency theories, and Transformational theories. Strategic Leadership Strategic leaders must develop and maintain a culture that fosters and encourages innovation, and invest in the development and exploitation of innovation (Pellet, 2008). According to Krupp (2013), most executives do not consider themselves to be strategic, or feel adequately trained to be strategic thinkers. This type of leadership has led to numerous of organizations failing, they have to be very flexible in order to survive this volatile environment. Strategic leaders must carefully manage resources and build effective human and social capital to create a nimble organization that is able to shift strategic...
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...TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP - THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES UDC 65.012.3 Ivana Simić Faculty of Economics, University of Niš, Trg VJ 11, 18000 Niš, Yugoslavia Abstract. Transformational leadership represents the essential quality for successful management of transformational organizational changes. It is about the quality that, in fact, so-called transactional management has missed to bring to an end of the transformational cycles with efficiency. In that sense, the success in realizing transformational organizational changes means that the key people in an organization (managers) develop sets of appropriate skills and attributes that are characteristic to so-called transformational leaders. 1. INTRODUCTION When the organizations adjusted themselves to environmental changes by incremental, evolutionary changes, so-called transactional management was in favor of managing those changes. The conditions of modern organizations functioning require undertaking some radical, transformational changes. Management of such changes requires some new management qualities. One of these qualities is transformational leadership. This article points out the appearance of the transformational leadership concept, its nature and essential qualities (skills and attributes) these phenomenon consists of. 2. TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP CONCEPT As an idea, transformational leadership was first mentioned in 1973, in the sociological...
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...United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or Copyright Clearance Center. Requests to the Publisher for permissions should be addressed to books@pscache.com, 785-307-0194 Copyright: Perpetual Success Dedication To the many teams supporting and defending our country Contents Individual Differences AGE: What a Difference a Day Makes 6 The Effect of Stress on the Metabolic Process 7 Leveraging Attributes Of Younger Team Members: 10 Who are these people? 10 Experience 15 Integrating team members 16 _______________________________ Individual Differences _______________________________ In the first chapter of the Teambuilding section I would like to introduce, Michael Huffman. Mr. Huffman is a retired Command Sergeant Major with more than 26 years experience with increased levels of leadership. He is the Director of International Relations. In this capacity he is required to meet with and train dignitaries from countries all over the world. When I met Michael he was a quiet member of a classroom training exercise. The first thing he said to me directly was, “where do you train?” I was taken aback by his question and stumbled for an answer. Before I could compose my answer, he was gone. Years later I can now understand the man that has spent the last 26 plus years training, researching the human body, studying cultural...
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...Marketing Plan: Phase III JoAnn Butcher, Amber Culwell, Kyle Grant, Omayra Moreno, Mathew Parish August 29, 2011 Michael Ricco Marketing Plan: Phase III In this paper Marketing Plan Phase III we will be discussing the description of our products attributes and service fully in depth. Team B will discuss how our product will evolve through the products life cycle as well as describe what will take place through that time and what will affect that time period for our product. Team B will also discuss how the life cycle affect the marketing of product introduced in phase I. This paper will identify the positioning and differentiation strategies for the product and the services our product will provide for our potential clientele and how it will provide them the protection they will need for all of their electronic WIFI required devices and the cost for our product that will suit our customers. Attributes of the Product The product created by Team B, security software to protect from the dangers of using Wi-Fi hotspots, is an extremely valuable product. It offers many favorable attributes like lifetime protection of the user’s personal information, easy installation and free updates over the lifetime of the service. The information age requires technology users to be plugged in at all times. Because of this constant need to be updated, the convenience of public Wi-Fi hotspots is ideal. Even with great convenience, Wi-Fi hotspots are one of the...
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...Abstract This paper outlines a concept for understanding innovation and explains how to lead innovation in an organization. This paper examines and describes how leadership models support innovation in organizations. This paper also addresses the role of discovery and delivery skills for their support of innovation in organizations. Lastly, in this paper I will explore my own strengths and weaknesses in the discovery and delivery skills and speak about how they help or hinder my ability to support innovation in organizations. Models That Support Innovation in Organizations Each of the different leadership models support innovation within organizations in some form or fashion. In order to grasp how, one must first develop an understanding of innovation and leadership. Innovation has many meanings, but on a broad scale one can say that innovation is thinking outside the box. Leadership is a bit harder to describe because it is best understood when seen. To put leadership in words according to Doyle and Smith, leaders often become visible when an innovative response is needed (2001). Now that we have an idea of what these words mean one of the leadership models that support innovations in organizations is transformation leadership. Transformational leaders serve as a role model by gaining the trust and confidence of peers and employees. By stating future goals, developing plans to achieve these goals and displaying an innovative edge, transformational leaders...
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