Good To Great Sparknotes

Being a leader is being a role model and striving to make a positive impact on those around you. In order to be a successful leader, you have to put yourself second and your peers first. For example, my younger sister and I both play softball. I have played on several travel teams during the summer and this year, she tried out for her first competitive travel team. I was asked to aid her by helping her with the mechanics of the game. During this time, I sacrificed my time to put the needs of another person before my own and it paid off, because she made the team and I got to witness the results of my

Leadership, which is defined as “…The action of leading a group of people or an organization” is used in many different ways. Most people think being a leader is mostly about being the boss, having people work under you and just becoming successful, but it boils down to more than that. Leaders are those individuals that actually utilize their many abilities in leadership and administration to help make a better change for themselves, the people around them and the goal that needs to be achieved. Leadership is not an expertise that can essentially be grabbed from a book or article based on leadership but instead it is one of those initiative abilities that are increased through experience and understanding those real life situations.

Leadership is all about having the right amount of heart and determination to help make a difference in someone’s life. It takes certain qualities to be considered a good leader. A leader should want to help inspire others to make a change and to be the best that they can be. A true leader does not need to feel powerful, instead they empower those around them. Throughout my life I have come across various leaders who have made an impact on my life. It takes a very special person to inspire and touch people’s lives. Leadership is so much deeper than having power and bossing people around.

The definition for being a leadership states, “leading a group of people or an organization”, but to me it is not about to the end goal. It is how you get there. Throughout my life I have seen leaders that have fallen short, right

Being a leader is a fulltime commitment to the group, the leader role runs into chaos, confusion, and ambiguity of accountability, the staff will lose sight of the value and begin to develop uncertainty towards the leader, that can lead to conflict within the organization.

Leadership, to me, is not necessarily always equated with a formal title, but rather it is characterized by the attitude, behavior, mindset, and actions of a person. Being a leader means being positive and supportive of others, providing them the opportunity to be heard and know that their opinion matters, motivating them to accomplish shared goals through teamwork. Over the past years,

A leader is someone who stands out among his or her peers and is chosen to be placed into a position that requires setting an example and providing direction for that group. Although anyone can be chosen as a leader, he or she must be willing and deserving of this position.

What does it mean to be a leader? Is a leader someone who can take control when a firm hand is needed? Or perhaps it is the man who is willing to stand up for what he believes in. I used to think of leaders as impressive and impeccable meta-humans. They were men and women who I thought were simply cut from a different cloth and beyond someone like me. Now I believe that a true leader, is that special someone who is willing to get up early and start making breakfast. I believe the hero takes the two-minute walk to find fresh water. During my time at NOLS Patagonia I was able to tune into what it truly meant to lead your peers. When I entered college with the mindset of tackling freshman year, I found myself unprepared for the workload.

Good to Great written by Jim Collins although written to describe the characteristics of successful businesses can also reflect upon oneself and the way in which we can grow to become not just good but better people. In his book Collins describes some of the leaders as having some qualities that many people may not picture when thinking of a great leader some of the qualities being “self- effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy” this is important because it goes back to something learned at one point in most people’s lives do not judge a book by its cover some people may come from different parts of the world, have different backgrounds or live a different lifestyle but this doesn’t affect the way in which they make themselves grow as a person

The 100 is a post-apocalyptic science fiction survival TV drama about a group of adolescent including Clarke Griffin, Bellamy Blake Octavia Blake Jasper Jordan Monty Green, Raven Reyes, John Murphy who become the first few from a space habitat called ‘the Ark’ to come back to earth after 97 years of a nuclear war that wiped out most humanity. The series follows these characters as they come face to face with various challenges in order to survive. “They discover not all humanity was destroyed and some survived the apocalypse: the Grounders, who live in clans, locked in a power struggle; the Reapers, another group of Grounders who have become cannibals; and Mountain Men, who live in Mount Weather and locked themselves away before the apocalypse.”

If you were to ask people “what does it mean to be a leader?” You will likely get answers far and wide in meaning; each one unique upon itself. Then you might ask yourself, “who is right?” To try and get a grasp on what it means to be a leader, let’s look to the definition. Merriam-Webster defines leadership as the “capacity to lead.” This definition is a little vague. Rather than using that dictionary definition, allow me to tell you what leadership means to me.

Being a leader is not a title, it is about having a clear vision, power to challenge and capability to influence.

Can you identify one company that had changed from being good to being great around you? Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, is a student and teacher of enduring great companies. In order to make this book, Mr. Collins started his research with 1,435 good companies. Then, he examined their performance over 40 years, to later on, find the 11 companies that became great.

Collins begins by presenting the purpose for his writing as well as laying the foundational criteria that him and his research team used in selecting companies that met their subjective definition of “great.” Collins coins the phrase (and the title of his first chapter): “Good is the enemy of great.”

Leadership is when a person motivates, inspires, encourages, and directs activates that will lead to reaching goals (Jones and George, 2013). Being a leader is an important role, one can be a leader at their job, and in their home life.