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Dominick Goodwin Mrs. Starnes English 2 18 April 2024 The Importance of Leadership Jackie Robinson once said, “A life is not important except the impact it has on other lives” Which means that everyone has an impact on at least someone and no one is useless. If we listen to Jackie, this is a great quality for leaders to have because they want to create change in the people they are surrounded by. Jackie Robinson and Lady Macbeth are both excellent examples of leaders. Robinson was brave and determined, while Lady Macbeth never backed down from anything and didn’t show remorse.
I agree that leadership starts at the core of a person rather than the show that they portray to the
“In a rare flash of insight,” he writes, “I realized that the jerks—the old burned-out, negative, manipulating, officious, self-centered bureaucrats about whom we all made jokes—had started out just like me. They hadn’t always been jerks.” What is it that causes a leader to go bad? Or to become good?
“Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No siree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it’s a lethal cocktail.”
Fast and Chen claim that an authoritative figure in the workplace who tends to be more insecure in their leadership, often leans towards aggressive behavior when challenged. Before
As per the Army Doctrine Publication 6-22, “Toxic leadership is a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that have adverse effects on subordinates, the organization, and mission performance. This leader lacks concern for others and the climate of the organization, which leads to short- and long-term negative effects”. One would think that leadership gets better as you move up in rank in the military but I have a different take. I think is something that needs to be address in an educational manner. Regardless of the rank of the individual, soldiers in the military must complete a series of training before gaining their military occupation specialty and their rank.
In fact, Deresiewicz believes that many of the people that have gained leadership positions over the recent years do possess those qualities, yet they are not equipped to be good leaders. The reason given for this is that young people are being trained to excel at maneuvering their way up a bureaucratic environment, but they are not being trained to think for themselves about what that environment entails. Young people are growing up with too many distractions, which inhibits them from being alone with their thoughts and prevent them from experiencing the solitude that makes for good leadership. For this reason, Deresiewicz suggests that America is experiencing a “crisis of leadership.” I agree that for many years, young people were raised to believe that everyone who did what they were supposed to do were entitled to success.
I read the talk entitled “A Tragic Evil Among Us” given by President Hinkley in October 2004 Conference. In his talk President Hinkley spoke about the dangers that befall members that view pornography. Pornography is highly addictive and takes way the Spirit. He stated that it is more then just a “titillating feast for the eyes,” rather it takes relationships that could of been beautiful and hurts the ones that we love the most. Pornography changes our notion of beauty from sacred bonds of love to temporary feelings of gratification.
Comparing the theoretical notions of leadership and the observed examples of leadership displayed by Tim Bloomfield, he is an effective leader. His ambition to motivate his workforce is unfortunately hindered by lazy workers, whom would most likely continue to be lazy regardless of leadership. Tim’s ability to communicate is one aspect that makes him a great leader, however, he needs to contactable at all times during business hours. He has put opportunities in place for team building to occur without forcing it upon people and if not for racist members of staff it would be highly effective. Upon analysing the leadership through traits, behaviour and contingency theories the findings above were substantiated.
Power is known to get the best of people and the supervisor lets it get to him and they end up getting into a
Philippa Foster Back said that the organisation will have choices to make, on daily basis. And if harassment or bullying of any sort happens, there need to be given some guidence to individuals, about a code of ethics. Or what’s even more important, employees need to know, where they can turn to, to whom, with their situation, especially if they can’t trust manager. Laura Harrison said, that ethics have a major role in HR, but we don’t pay enough attention to it, or at least recently we didn’t, because HR professionals want to prove, that they are commercial partner in the business.
Ancona’s article revealed the signs of our leadership capabilities. While reading about each of them, I realized that at some point in life I could relate to a weak sense making and weak visioning, but not to the extent where it was impossible to change. Within my organization there were times when I had to ask myself “Why are we doing this?”, or “Does it really matter”?
In spite of the fact that’ leadership analysis’ is the art of breaking down a leader into basic psychological components for study and use by academics and practitioners, a sound leadership analyses
For behavioural theorists, a leader’s behaviour is the best indicator of his leadership influences and as a result, is the best determinant of his or her leadership success.
There are many leaders with large self-images that simply are not true leaders, and instead focus on themselves and looking good vs. focusing on the employees. In my opinion, a true level five leader can be very hard to find. When reading Good to Great Policing it showed that a true leader sets up their employees for success. As we discussed in class, humility is the key personality component necessary to distinguish oneself as a level five leader. A leader should never feel threatened by preparing others to compete for his job in the future.
