Leadership And Strategic Decision Making

There are movements today that seems to be having an extraordinary impact on the social changes that they wish to promote to change, but how much is that driven by authentic activism with a strong tie to specific values that those movements hold? Author Malcolm Gladwell discusses and analyzes how, in the past, the movements that emerged were composed of people who had personal connections with either what the movement was seeking to achieve or the people within that movement. Today it seems as though movements have no noticeable impact and are very loosely tied together due to advances in technology and how we use it. At the time that Malcolm Gladwell’s wrote his article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, it seems like

What factors contribute towards the success of a racial justice organization in Los Angeles, California? In the midst of a heavy racially political environment in Los Angeles, the factors related to setting a solid foundation towards success can be directly linked to the importance in understanding the historical context behind such politics, in combination with paying close attention to the different ways the issues of class, race, citizenship, gender and sexuality share representation within previous organizations like the Black Panther Party, the East Winds, KIWA, and GALA.

Social movements exist amongst various areas of people’s everyday life. For example, the world has been introduced to social movements such as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, in which people are challenged to dump a bucket of ice on their heads in support of an ALS charity. Another example includes the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, to which an African American man by the name of Michael Brown was shot by a Caucasian police officer; this sparked Americans to use various support methods to generate awareness to racism and policy brutality. Both of these scenarios exemplifies the power social movements possess in society today. The purpose of this paper is to explain how to social movement of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign has affected the

The primary difference between “Old Social Movement” and “New Social Movement” is their goal. Old social movement focused on economic or political concerns while new social movement arise from the cultural and psychological effects of capitalism. The new cause of their struggle is not in the workplace but rather culture and everyday life. The Black Live Matter movement, presented in the article, displays a movement started as a result of the unlawful killing of African American citizens. This NSM was not rooted in politics or class or institutions. Therefore, there problems are more than locally-based. Rather, it was a network of people and supporters across social media working together with different classes for something they mutually believed

Q-1: Those more likely to engage in a social movement are, “the relatively well off, well educated, and active” (Meyer 62). Furthermore, movements for collective action, “tend to be full of people from the middle class and above” (63). In other words, the type of people who are the easiest to mobilize for collective action in a social movement are college educated individuals who are not living paycheck to paycheck. Individuals who are less likely to participate are those without “biographical availability”, a term coined by Doug McAdam to mean the absence of responsibilities in terms of financial or emotional support. A lack of availability will make these individuals the hardest to mobilize when compared to your average college student.

Using historical political movements the civil rights, women’s movement, and United Farmers Movement, I examine and analyze the content of each movement displayed during this time frame. I selected these movements whose purpose was the self-empowerment of the people, these three movements, without a thought empowered people of color, and low income. I selected current issues that are occurring in today’s society to understand the importance of not only social movement, but also action in modern day. They are various components that play a key role in determining the factors of a movement, I then used multiple variables, such as, sex, race, and class to convey the messages being sent by the movements. Political movements are the main source

The three main components from Dobson are political opportunity, organizational capacity and framing ability. In social movements, political opportunities play an important role in the organized people that are challenging the system where they already inhabit. For instance, in this component, the individual is able to analyze the vulnerability of the system and proceed to challenge it by going against it, and so initiates more chances for others. And so pushes towards a social change that can be self-benefited or can conclude in a collectively behavior action in society. Secondly, organizational capacity refers to the ability to come together as members of a social movement. In this facet, the abilities of the members can play an important

The Leadership Archetype Questionnaire (Kets de Vries, 2006b), identifies eight individual leadership archetypes. Among the eight archetypes is the strategist, who sees leadership, per Northouse, as a game of chess (2016). Envisioning an organizational future and responding to change is what makes enlisting the vision of the strategist the first step in aligning the two approaches. The strategist is not only one of the model archetypes defined by the Leadership Archetype Questionnaire; it is also one of the characteristics of a psychodynamic approach to leadership. In aligning the psychodynamic approach and the situational approach to leadership, it is important to remember, as suggested by O’Reilly, et. al. in a study published in the Leadership Quarterly, “it is clear, that leaders at all levels influence strategic initiatives and their implementation” (2010). Exactly “how aggregate leadership influences organizational performance” cannot be readily defined (O’Reilly, et. al., 2010). To clarify step one, step one is to clarify the vision.

Social movements are the essence of human rebellion for justice. From Malcolm X to Deray in Baltimore, social movements play a huge part in how we get our voice across to the elite. Even though some sociologists like Doug McAdam believe social movements alone aren’t sufficient to generate a successful result(McAdam,1982). Others believe that social movements play a big role on how we pursue and impact societal change. For instance, MADD – Mothers against Drunk Driving is a successful campaign that started with social change and reduced drunk driving by advocating for change in their own backyard. MLK, Rosa parks, Malcolm X all played a huge role in getting rid of discrimination and racial division by way of social movement. From the million-man

The challenges faced by strategic leaders in implementing complex and long-range consequential decisions demand that they be sophisticated with respect to issues of leadership, power and influence. The changes that are shaping the nature of work in today's complex organizations require that we develop the political will, expertise and personal skills to become more flexible, innovative and adaptive. Without political awareness and skill, we face the inevitable prospect of becoming immersed in bureaucratic infighting, parochial politics and destructive power struggles, which greatly retard organizational initiative, innovation, morale and performance

“The key to strategic planning is competent strategic leadership.” Strategic leadership requires personal outlook of the church which will increase the involvement and ministry outreach of the congregants. Strategic leadership in the twenty-first century has increased as the rising Millennial generation places new aspects of leadership which require higher standards more relevance from the church; becoming transparent. Malphurs stresses the concern of the church, stating, “I have compared the typical church in North America to a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly on the ocean. It doesn’t know where it is or where it is going. And if that is not bad enough, the winds of change and the current of postmodernism are relentlessly blowing and pulling the church even farther off course.” Postmodernism has become the venom the church has struggled to keep the church alive by biblically attacking the theory “there is no absolute truth,” which contradictory to the biblical context. Strategic leadership has increased amazingly in most areas of the church, but in the majority, the church has declined because of the lack thereof.

Throughout history, social movement organizations (SMOs) or small groups, loosely connected by a shared purpose have created transformational change. Charles Tilly defines social movements as a “series of contentious performances, displays and campaigns, by which ordinary people make collective claims on others” (Tilly 2004:3). Examples of these movements are the Women’s suffrage, civil rights and the LGBTQ movement. Similar forces are transforming businesses, military affairs and religion. SMOs have become an important part of society because these movements provide a forum for grievances and demands to be heard. These movements also provide citizens an institution outside of the traditional political system.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision, (Goodreads, 2016). When Martin Thomas stated the organization, Devise Products Unlimited (DPU), her certainly took a challenge. Starting out of his basement, 30 years ago, he has built the organization by acquiring several competitors’ businesses (CSU, nd). But how did he make these decisions as he made progress? Were there times he had to make decisions that he struggled with, and how did he overcome them? Was he always successful?

At the end of 2012 Samsung had 32.3% share of the market according to the figures from Comscore (n.d). Samsung overtook Nokia in April 2012 to claim the top spot, a position it had maintained for long. Apple came second with 20.5% market share, followed by Nokia at 16.3% market share (Samsung dominates European Smartphone market, 2013). Being the top selling Smartphone brand in Europe, Samsung has captured 45% share of the European Smartphone market according to data from Kantar World panel Comtech (n.d). As the worldwide Smartphone sales increased by 46.9% in 2012 and accounted for 39.6% of total mobile sales, according to Gartner research (n.d), Samsung and iPhone dominated the Smartphone market. Samsung mobile phone led with 98 million units in Q3, commanding 32.5% of the global Smartphone market (Apple and Samsung lead global Smartphone race, 2012) Samsung Galaxy 9 Smartphone 's use Google 's operating system Android. They introduced its first Windows phone in 2012. They offer great variety of products that target a wide range of customer segments in the market. Example is the, Galaxy Music, which are for music lovers. It includes features like easy access to music and surrounds sound. For the people who value innovative technology, they are offered Galaxy S3, which has also a mini version for those who find it too big. (Samsung, Mobile devices, 2013) The prices for these Smartphones vary greatly to meet different consumers’ needs. Some time back, Samsung was

McCain Foods is a potato manufacturing company founded in Canada in 1957 by Harrison and Wallace McCain. Currently, there are 41 sites on six continents employing 3,600 farmers and 17,000 other workers across the world (McCain, 2015). McCain has had several external environmental factors affecting their business including social, legal, economic, political, and technological forces that they have had to overcome and adapt to. Due to these factors, McCain has had numerous opportunities and threats that affect business strategy, philosophy, and initiatives. The volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of strategic planning and decision making and how it affects McCain’s strategy will be discussed below to show how McCain is handling changes in the environment and their business outcomes. McCain’s response to the external environment is important for their success in business and competition within the food industry.