Defining Leadership

Week 6 Blog: Crisis Leadership Could a company plan for everything that may happen in its day to day life? I believe, not a chance, unless your leadership and management are proactive in creating contingency plans that can determine a path for anything that could happen. And then they better continue to update and review to keep even the new managers and staff up to date on those plans. It is not about leaving something in a file or on a board to collect dust but it is about being prepared with a plan to follow when a crisis occurs (Lussier & Achua, 2016). I bolded and underlined the word ‘anything’ because truly anything could happen in today’s world of terrorism and shootings in schools and businesses. I can remember when people used to make jokes about “going postal” when postal workers were under so much stress that they took it out on their coworkers. On August 20, 1986 postman Patrick Sherrill   walked into his workplace, shot and killed 14 co-workers and inj

About Uber Uber Utopia? Their Ethics, Culture, and Diversity From nothing more than an idea in 2008 because two gentlemen, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, could not get a ride on a December evening, and with the thought of being stranded, spawned a driving company that is like how hailing a cab used to be, except now you press a button on your phone and the app is hailing a driver who is driving their own vehicle. UberCab began as “everyone’s private driver” and quickly grew into a global logistics layer, transforming an entire industry in the process (newsroom, 2019). It was October 2010 that management dropped the “cab” name as they no longer wanted to be familiarized with the taxicab industry. But is Uber becoming the company they want to be? The drivers’ behavior, The CEO of Uber (Kalanick) videotaped arguing with a driver and poor reputation has created loses in market share and possible more issues in the future. So is it the company’s ethical beliefs in question? Is

Effective Team Meetings      Sometimes meetings with colleagues can be quite effective but it takes more effort to hold an effective meeting than just calling one together. As we do call them though we want to be sure ahead of time that the results of the meeting(s) are to reach goals that do one thing and one thing only, they are to help the organization. So how can you make sure that every meeting that you will hold will be effective and goal-oriented?      First here is a couple statistics from a survey by Clarizen ,  a enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions company. The results showed that three in five employed adults reported that preparing for a status meeting "takes longer than the meeting itself," while more than one-third of those who attend status meetings called them a waste of their time (Howard, J., 2015). The survey continues that there are 4.6 hours spent preparing for status meetings per week while 4.5 hours are s

Week 3 Blog Leader - Follower Theories      To become an effective follower it is important to acquire the skills necessary to combine two opposing follower rules - to execute decisions made by a leader, and yet to be able to raise issues about those decisions when they are deemed misguided or unethical (Achua, C. & Lussier, R., 2016). Moral integrity and a willingness to take stands based on principle are distinguishing characteristics of the effective follower (2016).       Followership theory argues that leadership cannot be fully understood without a meaningful consideration of the followers' impact on the leadership process (Cerne, M., & Bunjak, A., 2018).       I believe a leader can maintain a personal relationship with some, if not all, members of the work group or team without creating the perception of in-groups and out-groups. This can be a fine line relationship between leaders and followers as could also be dependent on each group that the