“The Great Post-It Massacre” discusses how different leadership styles can cause serious problems within the workplace amongst management and subordinates. Adventures Plus is a rapidly-growing discount travel agency with fifty offices throughout the United States and Canada. Beverly Sadowsky was the first vice president of Adventures Plus. While Sandusky held this position, Bob Scanlan was promoted to small business account and assigned to the office in Dallas. Although Bob did not find his job exciting, he was happy with it because it was more relaxed than his previous position and he felt appreciated.
Bob was a very hard worker and he took his job responsibilities seriously. Beverly Sadowoskytook notice of his work ethic and believed
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This freedom included signing Beverly’s name on routine forms. Beverly was happy to have someone that that she could rely on and Bob had built a rapport in which he knew that he could call on Beverly anytime he had a question or concern. Not only did Beverly trust Bob, but administrators and staff of other bigger departments knew that they could turn to Bob to get quick and efficient service on their requests along with any answers to questions that they may have too. Bob used a near replica of Beverly’s leadership style. Because of that, he always had five times more applicants than he could use. As Beverly did with him, Bob would work with his new employees. Once he felt that the employee understood their jobs, Bob would leave them alone. He encouraged his employees and other departments recognized his hard work. His department was efficient and had high morale. Unfortunately, this all came to an end when Beverly Sadowsky was promoted to COO and George Fishman replaced her as first vice president because he had seniority.
George Fishman’s leadership style was very different from that of Sadowsky. George was a self-proclaimed perfectionist and detail oriented person. Everything had to come through him. The things that Bob was used to doing when Beverly was his boss could no longer be done when Fishman took the position. George would micro-manage all his employees. George felt
Harvard Business Review case, The Nuclear Tube Assembly Room, is an excellent example of how managing and leading a team effectively can make a substantial difference in terms of results and goals achieved, all the while creating new ambitious expectations for workers. This particular case revolves around Ralph Langley, general foreman of the process department at American Radiotronics Corporation. Within the first 24 months of being promoted to general foreman, Langley has swiftly changed the mentality and efficiency of the workers in the nuclear tube assembly room. He has changed their terrible reputation into one of the most
Gilcrist’s position is a walk-in president of the company due to Gunerson’s death intervened. Now Gilcrist must learn the business in a fast pace and keep it running without Gunerson’s advice. She can expect some skepticism from her employees because that’s what usually happens when change occurs. Her employees will watch her every move to grade if she’s capable of handling the task as president. Boswell challenges Gilcrist with a difficult task. She has no secretary and it was apparent that there are severe production problem persists in the yard, and an assortment of other tasks. It’s a tough time to start
Today I think people, especially teens, are on their phone way too much. When I walk down the street, all I see is the top of people’s heads. The things that really stand out to me are how we overuse our technology to the point where people are being distracted when they drive and how people are becoming lazy and passive learners. While some might say we should not limit how much we use our cell phones, I think we would be better off limiting our time and usage on our phones.
The story of Market Basket became a fascinating case study for researchers studying organizational leadership as well as for members of the business world. Aside from being modeled after a symbolic-interpretive perspective, this case caused sensation as it proved that employees, customers, and even stakeholders do have the power to, not only halt operations, of an organization, but also were able to cripple a 4 billion dollar company. The once mom-and pop- store throughout the years grew to become a 4 billion-dollar company led by two cousins Arthur T. Demoulas and Arthur S. Demoulas. After, Arthur T. Demoulas, was ousted by the company by his own cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, employees & customers took matters into their own hands and banded
It is clear that Richard is a manager and not a natural leader after encouraging the other department
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Colleen Barrett is one of the most influential women in the world of business and her efforts have paved the way for future female executives. According to Dierendonck and Patterson (2010), “For five years in a row, SWA is the only airline to win the Triple Crown, ranked first in most on-time flights, least lost baggage, and fewest Customer complaints”(p 135). Colleen Barrett is a rare example of a leader that rose from the ranks of an organization to the highest position of the company while never receiving a formal education in business management (Southwest Airlines ' Colleen Barrett on 'Servant Leadership, 2008). Her greatest achievement while at SWA was completely changing the leadership style and atmosphere of the organization. According to Dierendonck and Patterson (2010), her remodeling of the organization has kept SWA the leader in their industry by “setting and achieving incredible records of performance”(p 135). Leaders at SWA still practice her servant leadership style of managing employees even after she left the organization (Dierendonck & Patterson, 2010). Before a leader can achieve greatness they have to overcome challenges in their career fields.
3. How easy or difficult would it be for other organizations to duplicate the leadership style of Simonic and the organizational systems practiced at Addy, prior to, and after Simonic’s tenure?
Kouzes and Posner remark that leadership experiences are ?voyages of discovery and adventures of a lifetime?[and] they are challenging explorations under rigorous conditions? (174). While
1. I agreed to this interview Randy Dandy because there is no pot of contention for you to stir. There is no supreme news story here. Bob can walk back into this company as easily as he walked out. He took with him all he fancied.
The current context of work, leadership, and followership is positioned in progressively multifaceted, uncertain, and dynamic business backgrounds with multiple realities founded upon various values, priorities, and requirements. The actual encounters demanded by globalization, amplified competition, far-reaching sociocultural and technological growths, and the acceleration of changes that are conveying new intricacies for organizations (Küpers, 2007).
This case study will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the managerial leadership of Fletcher Jones and Continental Airlines.
As technology surrounding the internet has grown there has a been a new movement to connect the world. Specifically, teens have become more inclined to socialize and connect with friends, family, and strangers through the internet. Teenagers are known for being vulnerable, naïve, having a vast desire to find acceptance with their peers or society and are obsessed with love. With the connection of the internet, social media, and teen it has created completely new moral panic; catfishing. According to, to Merriam-Webster catfishing is defined as an individual who creates a fake profile on a social networking site to deceive or manipulate others ("Catfish"). Primarily, those who catfish use their fake profiles to gain romantic relationships with other social network users. Teens began creating fake profiles through their instinct of wanting to fit in but, this led to teens catfishing to fulfill their dreams of finding acceptance. Catfishing is an internet moral panic because it is considered a social terror. The act of catfishing became a way for some teens to find acceptance but, parents feel that teens are not safe on social networking sites such as; Facebook because these deceptions can cause teens emotional and mental harm. Those constructing the moral panic continually scapegoated social network sites for the creation of catfishing and its side effects but, the true root cause of catfishing is teen’s inherent behavior.
I was asked to write and submit a 4-6 page book summary of the text “Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership” by Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima. This book report should summarize the basic purpose of the book, the most important leadership principles contained, and the student’s evaluation of the book’s strengths and weaknesses. The goals of this book are to guide the reader in understanding what the dark side is, assist the reader in identifying your own dark side, and give the reader some specific steps for overcoming the dark side lurking on your success before you unexpectedly get blindsided by it.
George has exhibited ongoing micromanagement in his professional relationship with Shelley. This has had a negative impact on Shelley, she has lost morale, become confused about her role, giving her a heavier workload than necessary such as asking her to list everything she is working on and to provide two press releases a month even when there was no real news to report, for example. She says she feels George doesn’t trust her and she is becoming resentful of his behaviour. As a result this management style is having a negative effect on his role as manager. He is unable to devote his full attention to his priorities. He has created