Study on Six Successful Leaders

STATEMENT 1: THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP PROVIDE PRACTICAL ADVICE ON HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER. EVALUATE THIS STATEMENT WITH REFERENCE TO AT LEAST TWO THEORIES OR MODELS OF LEADERSHIP.

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The five practices of an effective leader are, model the way, challenge the process, enable others to act, inspire a shared vision, and encourage the heart. Model the way is creating standards of excelling and setting examples for others to follow. Term goals are set so that people can achieve small wins and work toward bigger ones (Wiley, 2000). Challenging the process is the honesty to evaluate what is not working and evaluate the current practices. Making improvements and changes to short-term and long-term goals. It can be met with resistance but with the effective leader, it will get done. Always look for ways to improve (Griffith & Dunham, 2015).

I identify Richard Branson as one of the most distinct and famous leaders among the contemporary business leaders for this paper. There may be more famous, wealthy, and renown business leaders around or may be leading with many different leadership styles of those who are CEO’s and founders, but I chose Richard Branson and I would like to analyze and evaluate his unique leadership approach and his natural gifted/talents of leading people to grow and become successful.

Credibility is the foundation of effective leadership, so it makes sense that building credibility with ones constituents is essential for a leader to be effective in his or her organization. Two of the most difficult obstacles to overcome for a leader that is new to an organization, is building trust and then learning, adapting to and supporting the existing organizational culture, including the groups moral and ethical values. With little tolerance for mediocrity, for a new leader these can be challenging obstacles that either lead to success or failure. Kouzes and Posner’s four primary characteristics for a successful leader are honest, forward-looking, competent, and inspiring. In the course of this analysis, it is the first two of the

It is evident that integrity and competence are two crucial traits of any successful leader. In order to get to know the importance of a quality over the other, we need to find out which of the two can a leader survive without.

 A recent 3-year Business Administration Advance diploma graduate, at North Humber College, Toronto Canada. 09/14 –

Higher ambition leaders are those who see the organization in its totality, its possibilities and potential. Higher ambition leaders are able to communicate to all employees the ability of the organization to value financial and social values equally (Pierce & Newstrom, 2014, p.85). The following paper will discuss those attributes of a higher-ambition leader, compare and contrast higher-ambition leaders to leaders, and how this paper has influenced the development of this team’s personal leadership style.

In order to be an effective leader there are traits involved as well as a competency to lead. Failure to take into account the personality traits a successful leader should possess can lead to employing a leader who is ineffective. Many times people are promoted into leadership positions due to the longevity of their tenure with a company or how they perform in their current positions. As a member of the management team of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group I have observed that there is more to becoming a successful leader than experience and tenure. We are managing various people who possess different personalities and work ethics and we are constantly adjusting our leadership skills to meet the diversity of the workforce. It is in this realization

This research is being submitted on March 9, 2014, for Dr. Reshowrn Thomas’s BUSI-604 International Business course.

Becoming a good leader takes a special type of person. People who want to become a good leader not only have to have the will to take on the job, but they need to have certain traits and qualities that are characteristic of a good leader. The trait theory of leadership supports the claim that some people are endowed with certain characteristics that make them more capable of being a good leader than others. Many leaders and researchers have come up with certain traits that make people great leaders, whether it is being a leader in a business, an organization or a leader of a sports team.

Successful leaders have common traits; they never give up. Success and failure often times comes hand in hand in life, but the ability to keep going and staying focus distinguish the successful leaders.

Carlos J. Alsua, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Management), College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

Required Resources Boone, L. E. & Kurtz, D. L. (2012 Update). Contemporary business (14th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. WileyPLUS access code. Note: Students are emailed a

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