Essays on Leadership

The dynamic and competitive business environment of today has progressed and evolved from the past and the need as a leader to understand your employees is more important than ever. The conventional style of leadership was highly transactional, demonstrated by Matthew Taylor who would pay for production and money was the motivation for employees to...

Question 1. Distributed leadership is commonly known as shared leadership and involves sharing roles and responsibilities, while decisions are made through multiple people’s opinions, not just one. For example, an organisation finding they have a problem and sharing the decision-making process with many staff to get the best plan of action. A benefit of distributed...

The movie “Dead Poets Society” is set in the United States in 1959, at the traditional Welton Academy, a university that is very strict and whose students come from the upper class. To start with Mr. Nolan, the headmaster represents the traditional, authoritarian leader. What he says in the movie revolves around the core values...

Introduction This report will analyse the leadership qualities of Vladimir Putin the current President of the Russian Federation. Putin’s leadership traits, behavioural conduct, utilization of power & influence will be judged in relation to how he has effectively fulfilled his role as the paramount leader of Russia for the last twenty years. This discussion will...

Leadership and Management In the contemporary world, organizations are struggling to maintain powerful leadership and management in order to keep up the pace in a profoundly changing environment. Leadership and management are about getting individuals to comprehend and believe in the organizational vision and work towards achieving the common objectives (Bolden, 2016). In this case,...

Introduction This summative reflection is focused on my own experience of leadership whereby I acknowledge my strengths and opportunities and formulate plans for improvement. Understanding that leadership is a vast and complex subject, once said “to have as many definitions as there are people who have tried to describe it” (Northouse, 2019), I will focus...

Introduction In this ever-evolving world the role of leadership has never been greater as it is a concept that is important in all aspects of life. Leadership is “the process of interactive influence that occurs when, in a given context, some people accept someone as their leader to achieve common goals” (Silva ,2016). In this...

Critical reflection/analysis What does the theory suggest? Leadership is the quality of an individual to influence people to reach a particular goal by bringing some differences in the actions performed by them (Aronson, 2001). I have met many leaders, my parents being the first one followed by the teachers and professors. Control in the most...

Introduction Every leader is a world changer who goes beyond the limitation without fears and inspire people to challenge themselves in order to achieve their dreams. A great leader is charismatic and spreads positivity around people. They possess leadership skills and abilities to motivate, lead and guide masses to follow and achieve their goals in...

The traditional Leader-Follower principle is used in Navies around the world, however with each younger generation requiring more motivation, is there a better way to lead? The following report discusses the challenges of leading a warship consisting of over 190 personnel in a highly challenging, flexible, unforgiving and relentless environment. Life at Sea Sailing the...