“POLICY DILEMMAS AT THE SEATTLE SOLID WASTE UTILITY”

“Policy Dilemmas at the Seattle Solid Waste Utility”

“Policy Dilemmas at the Seattle Solid Waste Utility”

Entrepreneurs, by nature of definition, are self-starters who are highly motivated to do their business successfully. Most people who start their own business do they have the personal drive to put their own ideas in a business project. It takes a highly motivated person with personal conviction to make a business become a profitable and successful. Obviously, if a person has the courage to take steps to start your own business, then they are, by nature, highly motivated individuals who want to make your project a success. People are not very motivated, do not become entrepreneurs, or more than likely that if they try to make a half-hearted attempt to start your own business. For a successful business requires a vision that the company should be after a period of time. All employers know in their minds what they want their business to be in a year or five years or ten years. Successful entrepreneurs have a vision focused on the measures to be taken to make your business successful.

Leadership is the ability to influence individuals or groups toward the achievement of objectives. Leadership as a process, the shapes of the goals of the group or organization, motivates behavior toward the achievement of these goals and helps define group or organizational culture. It is mainly a process of influence.

Leadership is a dynamic and changing process in the sense that, while influence is always present, people who exercise influence that may change. Possession of influence depends on the situation and the importance of individual skills and abilities to the situation. For example, if a particular individual has the expertise required to solve a problem, then that person will be presumed to have some influence on others.

Although some administrators are able to influence followers to work towards achieving the objectives of the organization, the allocation of formal authority on a manager does not necessarily mean that person a leader. Yes, that individual has the authority, but whether or not they are able to influence their subordinates may depend more than just the authority.

Not all leaders are managers, and similarly, not all managers are leaders. Within a team environment, manager and leader are simply roles taken by team members. Most teams require a manager to "manage" - coordinating, programming, links, contacts, organize, acquire - their business. The functions of this feature and can be very different from the leader. Management functions need not lead to any influence. A leader, however, must be able to influence other team members.

One view of leadership is seen as a transactional process by which leaders respond to subordinates' level of sub-base and security needs. Similar to the exchange theory discussed above, leaders and subordinates can be viewed as bargaining agent which regulates power-exchange process, the benefits are issued and received. Therefore, a follower can follow a leader while the leader is perceived to be able ...