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Leadership Ethos-Murdoch's Leadership Style

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Leadership
Leadership is the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or a set of goals. Many scholars have given different definitions of leadership: Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right (Professor Warren G. Bennis), Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it (Dwight D. Eisenhower).
While there is no perfect definition for leadership, the word "leadership" can bring to mind a variety of images (Mindtools, articles, newLDR_41). For example:
• A political leader, pursuing a passionate, personal cause.
• An explorer, cutting a path through the jungle for the rest of his group to follow.
• An executive, developing her …show more content…

For this purpose, three Australian leaders are selected and accounts of their success as well as their leadership style is critically analyzed. The aim of this essay is to critically analyze, in the context of the framework of relevant theories and research, current and projected issues which impact the organizational leadership and organizational success, synthesize issues for organizational leaders and evaluate plausible impact requiring leadership decisions, explain the relationship of effective leadership and the success of organizations, develop a leadership plan and implementation …show more content…

Leadership Ethos- Murdoch 's leadership style played an important role in News Corp 's overall success. He had taken the company where it is now.
Adventurous- For Murdoch whose public opinion has always been mixed, most descriptions are: love adventure, passionate, ambitious, or even do anything to achieve his goals. Murdoch’s self-assessment: "is caused by personality and forced by circumstances to act as a facilitator of change", and "News Corp. reflects my thoughts, personality and values”.
Perceptiveness- Another reason for his success was that he was the first to establish cross-border business in the media industry giants. In a time when the market pundits thought the key growth drivers in the industry were steel, manufacturing, automobile, defense sector, etc, Murdoch made of a conglomerate of broadcasting industry, and his profits and growth attracted more investor to the media industry (Academia.edu, Rupert

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