The Video, Leadership Decisions

Max De Pree explains that the true leader (manager) is there to enable his followers to reach their full potential, that he is their "servant" not the master. In his book Leadership is an Art, De Pree summarizes the qualities of the future leader. Leaders need to recognize when another individual’s skills and gifts could do the job better than they can. •Leaders must be able to gracefully step down and follow the other person’s lead.

It feels as if we rarely have situations with sufficient data to make decisions clear and absolute. Maybe those situations do occur frequently, but because they are obvious, we don’t even register them as decisions. Leadership hinges on effective decision making and judgement calls. That includes gathering information for analysis when available, but also recognizing how not to be caught in analysis paralysis. Effective leaders constantly evaluate the situation, recognize the benefits, risks, and constraints and move forward. Nothing impedes an organization more than inability to commit to a path forward.

Leadership refers to the act of leading a considerable number of people within an establishment or the capacity to do this. Leadership has to do with coming up with a vision that is crystal clear and the ability to spreads that idea out in a manner that makes individuals, given the information, knowledge, and methods to understand, willing to follow. Subsequently, balancing and coordinating the conflicting interests of all stakeholders and members. It is typical for any good leader to step up in the event of a contingency, with the potential to imagine and act creatively in situations that prove to be difficult. Different from management, leadership can never be taught, in as much as it may be learned and bettered employing mentoring and coaching (Servant Leadership Based on Robert Greenleaf’s Writings, 2010).

Being able to listen to the opinions and then being able to make a decision is a key ingredient to being a great leader (Wadhwa, 2012).

Leadership is in many ways a responsibility, whether it’s an appointed job as a leader or a role you find yourself in unexpectedly you must perform adequately not just to accomplish the given task but to also have those following you achieve a given goal. Some are natural born leaders, taking responsibilities for self, never pointing fingers and possessing the ability to find solutions to the obstacles that arise. Others can learn how to lead and achieve the same results. In the medical field, when we look to our leaders it is so that they can lead us to be able to provide and deliver safe quality

Leadership is something that people are born with. It is an inherent charm and it doesn’t hide even if you want to hide it. There is a leader amongst us and he or she is the one that leads other people to great things by inspiring and motivating people to do good deeds. Leadership has been described as “a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”. This way a leader can decide what work goes in and goes out. Good leaders in history have left a mark in walks of life. But great leaders, they’re different. Great leaders have the ability to make each and every individual re-think their life decisions and choices by

This is why, Organizational renowned scholars have been studying of this very significant topic of leadership for literally hundreds of years. Because. It is very complex, not simple one.

Being a leader is not considered a job or position. Becoming a leader is not a talent, job or position. Although, leadership can be rewarding and difficult at the same time. As a leader, one has to lead by example, with ethics and integrity. Leadership and integrity and both go hand in hand. Integrity is one of the main attributes of a great leader. It is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcomes. It implies a deep commitment to do the right thing for the right reason, regardless of the circumstances. Choosing to the right thing as a leader, regardless of the consequence, is considered a stamp authenticity and integrity. In today’s society, “the kind of leadership necessary to move

Good leadership is also important to run a business. Usually, in companies, management stresses more on decision- making skills. They believe a timely and smart decision will help their company to succeed. They forget that implementation of those decisions are as important as making those decision. Without a proper implementation , there will be no results. Like there is a saying that, it’s easier to said than done. Similarly, making a decision will change nothing, its how to get things done in a timely and an effective way will help an organization to accomplish their goals. Leadership is crucial in implementing decisions correctly and successfully.

Another issue that grabbed my attention is that leaders must know when it is more powerful to say nothing or when to step up and say something. I feel that this can be a confusing decision to make. If a leader chooses to not say anything during a time when their followers are really looking towards them, it can make a big statement. If something happens that goes against the leader’s values and beliefs, then this could damage their

Leadership is about creating a vision for that function and gaining peoples commitment by strategic direction.

actions in the business world. A common perception about leaders is that they are born and not

What I learned from this video assignment - This video lesson has many important applications to leadership and decision-making. The first component to decision-making I learned from this lesson is that we should always collect as much data as possible before making any decision. Sometimes when the decision we are presented with is time sensitive we tend to not collect adequate information and this can lead to making a bad decision. Each piece of information, no matter how obvious or obscure, should be carefully examined to ensure all possibilities are considered. However, we can’t become too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole. Andy has an ideal balance between looking closely at the details while maintaining a holistic approach.

A great leader is just like a great conductor being in a leadership role one has to find the best way of seeing things from a different perspective. In viewing the video I saw that there were many parallels that could be seen between corporations and an orchestra.

Leadership, is influencing, guiding, and leading people to follow a course of action or line of thought Many have different definitions of what leadership is, although each definition that people may have are right in many different ways. Leadership of an individual influence others to follow suit because they see the ending results of what happens when someone influence others to have a “want to” to do a specific job. When a leader guides it usually is because of the lack of knowledge of the one being guided. A leader also steps up in times of crisis, and is able to think and act creatively in difficult situation. These three things are key to a successful business of a leader on a daily basis. In every business are tents; tenets are values or beliefs. Good leaders do a great job of helping a business accomplish the value or beliefs. In most cases a business should follow the 14 tenets of TQM principles.