LEADERSHIP

Leadership

Executive Summary

The need for leaders has been evident for hundreds of thousands of years. Historically, humans self-selected leaders to guide them through challenging times. As the world emerges into an Information Age the need for strong and effective leaders who influence, guide, and structure people to aim for a mutual goal still exists. Leadership models vary among organizations, families, and people. But how to define leadership and what should we be looking for in a leader?  First I will offer my definition of leadership. I will discuss theories of leadership that have most influenced my thinking on the topic. Next I will discuss what I consider to be the characteristics essential to becoming an effective leader and follower. I will also highlight my personal style of leadership. In conclusion, I will provide a reflective analysis of what I've learning in the course and how I plan to apply it in my life.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary2

Introduction4

Content & Discussion6

Leadership Reflection11

Critical evaluation12

Conclusions14

Recommendations14

Leadership

Introduction

Leadership is the process by which an individual has influence over people and inspires, motivates and directs its activities to reach the goals; the essence of leadership is to have followers. Within the process there are several principles Administration (Management) harmony of goals, motivation, leadership, and communication. Leadership varies from country to country and culture, for European managers is more humanistic than the Japanese or Americans. In Japan there is a collective culture and focuses more on the group in the individual and are more individualist in Europe, the United States, the organisation is fast and in Japan. Power of leader is the ability to induce or influence the beliefs or actions of other individuals or groups. Authority is a right in a position to make decisions. Formal authority is a type of power based on the recognition of legitimacy (Collins, 2001, 217)

People spend most of their time trying to plan how they will develop their activities, planning how they will achieve their goals and other less important, and sometimes spend more time trying to organize his time, but there are also people methods that achieve organize their time so they achieve their objectives and develop effectively. To keep a good control of time and good time management must be clear about where you want to go, hence the importance of addressing a vision, mission, goals and recognize some real strengths and some weaknesses. Among the characteristics of a true leader is the ability to envision the future and propose clear actions to combat the future, and achieving goals that benefit their team. Leaders learn to earn the respect of his colleagues thanks to his charisma, which is more important to have the power that is given to a normal manager with its office. (Burns 2004, 12)

Leadership could be defined basically as the ability to positively influence other human beings to achieve a purpose whatsoever. If you look carefully, in recent years there has been a special interest in all cultures around the world for leadership, especially the human group business, ...