Business: Leadership and Direction

As we know that, leadership is nothing. But the influencing flowers. Leadership includes three fundamental clusters of skills creating vision, garnering commitment to that vision, an managing progress toward the realization of that vision. powerful and effective leaders plays very vital role to reach the maximum production for any organization.

The 8 rules for Brilliant Brainstorming helped us with the do and don’ts of coordination and collaboration. Everyone is the different and has their own way of thinking. If we didn’t follow the 8 rules we might discourage someone and hurt our chance of having a good brainstorming session and our chances of coming up with some good ideas. Having a decent side team of 5 helped with answering the questions. We initially brainstormed individually to see what came up with on our own. After 10 minutes, we all came up with very similar idea yet different ideas. I won’t have of thought with have of the ideas that they did if I was working by myself or with another person. Then we discuss our ideas to see what worked and the ones that did we build on

Brainstorming has given birth to some of the world’s most incredible and progressive ideas, products and services. Yet it has antithetically filled many a classroom, board meeting and focus group with cold-blooded fear and trepidation for over seventy years!

Warren Bennis (1997) wrote in Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader that “There is a profound difference between management and leadership, and both are important. To manage means to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of or responsibility for, to conduct. Leading is influencing, guiding in a direction, course, action, opinion. The distinction is crucial.” (Leiding, 2004, p.11) However, it is difficult to draw a clear distinction between leadership and management and create an ultimate formula because they perform simultaneously in an organisation, and the organisation is complex. Sometimes, it is easy to mix the use of leadership and management when the roles interrelate. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the role of each concept and how it can be effective when combined and how it can be ineffective when missing one or another. Both ideas have been researched widely, however, to date there is no single definition that portrays the whole picture of each. Nonetheless, what is known is organisations need outstanding management as well as great leadership to make the complex organisation sustainable and successful. Thus, in this essay, I will discuss each concept separately, and compare and contrast the processes of leadership and management through scholar’s definitions.

In 2002 only way one would know about Five Guys is if he/she lived in either Maryland or Virginia, or if they were visiting of course. Yet, to date, Five Guys just expanded its burger industry to the United Kingdom. In efforts to stay afloat during the current recession, Five Guys opened its business to franchising – resulting in Five Guys taking the burger fast food chain by storm. In this paper we will look at Five Guys philosophy and how it sets it apart from other fast-food chains, Analyze the original values and how it remains strong today, discuss three factors that contributed to Five Guys’ success in such a short

Rath and Conchie (2009) had explained in their book “Strengths-Based Leadership” that in order to become a good leader, one should have to be familiar with his or her strengths and weaknesses. An individual should focus more on his/her strengths than weaknesses because every individual has different talent .Daniel Goleman (1995) also states that IQ and Expertise are not only two factors to judge an individual capability in business but there are many others talents and competences which

The focus of strategic leadership is the enduring performance potential of an organization- achieving the potential of the organization over time so that it will thrive in the long term (Hughes, et.al, 2014). Strategic leadership happens when individuals create the direction, alignment, and commitment needed to achieve the enduring performance potential of the organization (Hughes, et.al, 2014). Leaders are more strategic when they are strong strategy makers, that is, when they develop effective organizational strategies. Strategy involves change, and achieving long-term performance potential in an ever-changing environment requires continuous change. The critical issue for strategic leaders is how to make changes that progressively build on each other and represent an evolving enhancement of the organization’s well- being.

Contrary to popular belief, the terms leadership and management are often thought of as hand in hand, but in retrospect they both have very strong different meanings and are not the same. There are some similar characteristics that can very much persuade some that they align in the same manner. They can be notably known as terms that are used interchangeably in the business world. “Management is a function that must be exercised in any business, whereas leadership is a relationship between leaders and led that can energize an organization” (Maccoby, 2000).

Leadership is an important aspect in any industry. Most people believe that leadership is important only in a business industry. Leaders are needed in all industries to help manage, direct and keep organization present in all areas. A leader is described as someone who inspire others, leads by example, and work with others to achieve goals that benefit the organization in a work setting. There are many qualities a leader should possess which are honesty, communication, confidence, commitment to employees and organization, positive attitude, and many more. When a good leader is present it allows the organization/company to prosper. If a leader is present that doesn’t possess positive qualities to allow a company/organization to prosper,

Leadership is defined as an act of leading a group or an organization. There are different styles of leadership. Each style of leadership has a situation where they work efficiently and other situations where it does not work efficiently (Tittemore, 2003). The key to being a leader is guiding people or an organization a goal. Leadership is vital running a successful business and the organization of a business (Minkes, A., Small, M., & Chatterjee, S. (1999)). This paper discusses my personal leadership style, 5 characteristics that I align with, and identify how I can improve my leadership style.

Leadership is a term that is often misunderstood and misinterpreted in the business world. In the world of CEOs, CFOs, vice-presidents and managers, it is important to distinguish the difference between what is considered management and what is considered leadership. While these two terms are not mutually exclusive, but it is imperative that they are not comprehended as mutually inclusive either.

The ultimate aim of this research is to highlight a successful business leadership style. The intention is to research business leadership in the developing countries, and devise a new framework or strategy that can be used by businesses and education systems within developing countries and possibly other Asian countries. This framework would identify the qualities necessary to develop an appropriate leadership style to be an effective leader in organisations operating. This will be achieved by investigating the social and cultural environment and look at how these forces affect the business environment, and in particular the qualities of a good leader within the organisation. The research aims to fill a gap in the existing body of knowledge to do with leadership and management in different regions of the world.

A brainstorming session is a tool for generating as many ideas or solutions as possible to a problem or issue. It is not a tool for determining the best solution to a problem or issue. Before beginning any effective brainstorming session, ground rules must be set. This doesn't mean that boundaries are set so tightly that you can't have fun or be creative. It does mean that a code of conduct for person to person interactions has been set. It's when this code of conduct is breached that people stop being creative. The best way to have meaningful ground rules is to have the team create their own. Try performing a mini-brainstorming session around creating brainstorming ground rules. It should provide a nice opportunity to practice the skills necessary for an effective brainstorming session. This also allows the team to take ownership of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Only if the team hasn't addressed the key ground rules should you (as the facilitator) add to the list. Once the ground rules list is generated be sure to gain consensus that the session will be conducted according to them, and post them in a highly visible location in the room.

Leaders do not operate in isolation by definition, to lead means that one's subordinates are willing to follow. Asking questions creates a valuable dialogue between all project participants and creates a high level of investment in the project on every level of the organizational hierarchy. Asking questions also ensures that a detailed and organized plan will be in operation: answering the right questions raises the likelihood that the project's goals will be realized; that the project will be completed in a timely fashion; and that all project participants understand what needs to be done. "There are two primary functions of leadership; initiation of structure or task direction and the conditions for performance, and consideration or a leader's sensitivity to and consideration of subordinates needs and feelings" (Kearns 2004). Asking questions enhances both of these capabilities.

Finally, brainstorming. which is probably the first and most important method, it basically consist on a group of people that are working on a problem or issue that needs to be solved, so each one of them gives one or more ideas to try to solve the issue, there is also someone who is listening and making notes of what has been talked about