After reading a short description from the Harvard Business Review, it seemed to me as if they were stating the same leadership strategies as the text just in different words. Unfortunately I could not find the full article, but even with the short description I found on google, I can say that in management if you are going to take on the role as a leader you need to have a good vision, a plan and execute the plan to perfection. If you don't have enough knowledge on the situation then your company won't go very far. With GE they had and still have a great vision and the capability to stay atop their market.
Being a leader in any business is like being a leader on any sports team. If you understand how a business is supposed to be run and know where it should be in a few years then its a piece of cake. Now take a sports team and if your the captain/leader you know exactly what your supposed to be doing well in advance. The Walch video has helped me realize how to approach being a leader in a way that I have always been, and thats being a competitor. However I have never really thought of it as being a failure by coming in second place. I basically knew what it took to be a strategic leader but now after watching the movie and reading the text and the brief discription my understanding of how to be the best leader you can be has definately changed. I always knew what it took to be a leader, but not an excellent leader.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Strategic Leadership-Michael Garland
After reading the Article titled " Building A leadership brand", I think the authors agree with the characteristics of leadership that's stated in the text. The authors in this article "asked the representives from each organization to send us their leadership competency model which, listed the "unique" characteristics that they sought in their leaders (has a strong vision," "fosters teamwork," demonstrates emotional intelligence," and the like."(Ulrich 95) They found that these company leaders concentrate on having a focus of where the company is going to go. They make sure that everyone with in the organization has a common vision based off their customers needs. These representitives have also stated (as in the quote above) the attributes of emotional intelligence which makes up an effective leader.
My idea of a leader has changed after watching the DVD of Jack Welch. He has a very strong personality and you can tell he really understands what it takes to be an effective leader. He said that you have to have more passion than the others. I've always thought that if you have more passion in a subject than someone else, you will be that much more successful. You get what you see when it comes to Jack Welch. He states having the edge, which is apart of the 4 E's, is a big part of leadership. Having the edge means saying yes or no and not maybe. I'm the type of person that would probably say maybe and after seeing the DVD, it made me want to strive to change that. I think that's something that has definitely changed my vision of leadership. When you say "maybe" your trying to put something off till later and when it comes to business there seems to be no later. It's now or never.
My idea of a leader has changed after watching the DVD of Jack Welch. He has a very strong personality and you can tell he really understands what it takes to be an effective leader. He said that you have to have more passion than the others. I've always thought that if you have more passion in a subject than someone else, you will be that much more successful. You get what you see when it comes to Jack Welch. He states having the edge, which is apart of the 4 E's, is a big part of leadership. Having the edge means saying yes or no and not maybe. I'm the type of person that would probably say maybe and after seeing the DVD, it made me want to strive to change that. I think that's something that has definitely changed my vision of leadership. When you say "maybe" your trying to put something off till later and when it comes to business there seems to be no later. It's now or never.
Strategic Leadership - Amanda Guay
The authors of the Harvard Business Review article and our textbook go hand in hand. For example, our textbook identifies the key characteristics of good strategic leadership as (1) vision, eloquence, and consistency, (2) commitment, (3) being well informed, (4) willingness to delegate and empower, (5) astute use of power, and (6) emotional intelligence. In the article, the authors talk about how they asked representatives from nine companies that were household names what their leadership models were. They listed "has a strong vision," "fosters teamwork," "demonstrates emotional intelligence," and the like. This was an obvious comparison to our textbook because not only did the authors of the article have this in mind, so did the representatives. The article also talks about how to build a leadership brand through principles. One of the principles is "nail the prerequisites of leadership." This principle also goes hand in hand with our textbook because the prerequisites of leadership are the key characterisitcs of leadership.
After reading the pages in the textbook, reading the article, watching the Jack Welch DVD, and learning in depth about these characteristics, I have concluded that my personal views about strategic leadership have not changed. My views and feelings about strategic leadership agreed with the textbook and the article to begin with which did not create anything for me to disagree with. It takes a great leader to make a company a household name. It takes character, knowledge, articulation, skills, and perspective just to name a few, and I think that is what the authors were trying to convey in this article.
After reading the pages in the textbook, reading the article, watching the Jack Welch DVD, and learning in depth about these characteristics, I have concluded that my personal views about strategic leadership have not changed. My views and feelings about strategic leadership agreed with the textbook and the article to begin with which did not create anything for me to disagree with. It takes a great leader to make a company a household name. It takes character, knowledge, articulation, skills, and perspective just to name a few, and I think that is what the authors were trying to convey in this article.
Strategic Management- Beth Ellis
I feel that the authors of the article “Building a Leadership Brand” do agree with the ideas presented in the text on strategic leadership. The text talks about strong leaders as “needing a clear and compelling vision of where the organization should go, and being eloquent enough to communicate this vision to others within the organization” (Hill 19), while the authors present the same idea simply in different terminology when they say that a strong leader should be able to say that “we know how we want to be viewed by our target customers, and we have articulated a clear company identity based upon this” (Ulrich 5). Another example where I found that the text and the article preached in a similar manner about quality leadership feel under the idea of being well informed. The text states that “effective strategic leaders develop a network of formal and informal sources who keep them well informed about what is going on” (Hill 19). In a similar manner the article states that a good leader should “develop plans to acquire skills, knowledge, and perspective that matter to the target customer” (Ulrich 5). While the text may differ slightly from the article in terminology, both the authors of the article and the authors of the text are for the majority in agreement with what makes a strong leader.
If anything, my view of how a strategic leader should act has been reinforced from reading this article and viewing the video on Jack Welch. Welch obviously has a great wealth of knowledge in the area of leadership, so hearing him reinforce the way I previously thought that a leader should act was a great thing. I have always believed that in order to be a strong leader, one much be committed to the activity in which they are leading. I have always believed that being able to adhere to emotional qualities, understanding the moods of one's self and others plays by far the largest role in being a good leader. So, while Welch and Ulrich made some interesting points that I may not have previously thought of, the basic ideas were quite similar to ideas that I came into the course with.
If anything, my view of how a strategic leader should act has been reinforced from reading this article and viewing the video on Jack Welch. Welch obviously has a great wealth of knowledge in the area of leadership, so hearing him reinforce the way I previously thought that a leader should act was a great thing. I have always believed that in order to be a strong leader, one much be committed to the activity in which they are leading. I have always believed that being able to adhere to emotional qualities, understanding the moods of one's self and others plays by far the largest role in being a good leader. So, while Welch and Ulrich made some interesting points that I may not have previously thought of, the basic ideas were quite similar to ideas that I came into the course with.
Strategic Leadership- Joe Boulanger
For the most part the authors of this article agree with the same concepts that are stated in our text books on leadership. One of the first aspects that they talk about is having vision and not to concentrate on enhancing individual strengths, but enhancing the company as a whole. To have a great business, the company must have a vision and great leaders that can show others how to do a job right, and that is what both the article and text book refer to. Both the article and the text refer to a 5 point and 6 point guideline. Even though the text and the article are worded differently, they both refer to the same points.
My view of how a strategic leader should be has not changed from before I watched the video on Welch, and reading the text until now. I have been in leadership roles before, and I learned from experience what it takes to be a good leader and what qualities one must posses in order to be an effective leader. One thing I have learned from both personal experience and the last week in class is that effective leaders must be knowledgable, present a good working environment, and to give them intitiatives to do a good job at work.
My view of how a strategic leader should be has not changed from before I watched the video on Welch, and reading the text until now. I have been in leadership roles before, and I learned from experience what it takes to be a good leader and what qualities one must posses in order to be an effective leader. One thing I have learned from both personal experience and the last week in class is that effective leaders must be knowledgable, present a good working environment, and to give them intitiatives to do a good job at work.
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