Essays on Visions

The growth of Amazon to a global retail company is basically due in part to the management practices by its Chief Executive Office and how such practices affect the planning, control, and management of a company. Most CEOs embrace unique Organizational structures towards the operations of their companies. The organizational structure of a company is important since it outlines how various activities such as supervision, work coordination, and allocation are handled by an organization to achieve the set aims and goals. A good organizational structure creates opportunities for business growth. The Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of a company has ...

Debate of Washington v. DuBois v. Garvey During the early 20th century the three famous African American leaders including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey had compelling visions for the African American community. The reconstruction of the civil war did not come with the desired hope of the complete right of citizens to be free of slavery. In the 1980s a terrorist group known as the Ku Klux Klan played a significant role in realizing changes that were expected since they introduced racial segregation laws, lynching, and voting restrictions compromising the rights brought about ...

Communication and Conflict Resolution

As of today, the majority of organizations regardless their field of activity require efficient professional teamwork and collaboration in a vulnarable environment as expert interprofessional groups have profound professional knowledge and relevant competences and are likely to "have fewer personal problems and conflicts between the members" (Juhász, 2010, p. 63). Taking into consideration that the team is expected to work together collaboratively for the next 6 months, it is of fundamental importance to establish ground rules and set expectations that all team members will adhere to. One of the best methods is developing the internal code of conduct, ...

Introduction

Leadership is a necessity in any social setup and is more specialized when it comes to the medical setup. This is because it involves various parties, ranging from doctors, nurses, patients, staff and other people within the system. However, nursing leadership stands out as specialized because of the need to have a sense of direction. Leadership in nursing involves the issue of influencing and making people follow instruction as well as adhere to authority and set up social control systems. In this paper, there will be a detailed discussion about nursing leadership, personal perceptions on the values and beliefs ...

Reflection

Question One Values are the things that are vital to us. They can also be described the things that we believe are essential in the way as human beings we work and live. My values in life include happiness, wisdom, love, friendship, success, hard work, truthfulness, openness, commitment, accountability, and joy. Ideally, I can describe these values as the things that are imperative in how I live as well as work. They help me in determining my priorities in life. In other words, these values help me develop a clearer sense of the things that are most vital in ...

(the author’s name) (the institutional affiliation) Currently, the population expresses interest in the influence of companies’ activities on modern life. In turn, companies feel inclined to legitimate their practices to society. The interest is connected with the moral aspect of pursuing profit and implementing regulations of companies’ activities. Such practices reveal the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) which presents a complex area as it centers on issues of humanity, sustainability, and environmental responsibility (Crane, Matten, and Spence, 2013, pp. 3-4; Fleming, Roberts, and Garsten, 2013, p. 340; Wright, 2010, p. 1). In this regard, the following social ...

Leadership and Management

While the term management and managers dominated best practice for half of the twentieth century, currently it is not unusual to meet work organization where no one uses these terms; where ‘management’ is criticized as bureaucratic, commonplace, procedural and not worthy of serious attention. Leadership, on the other hand, is considered a more valued, more complex, more sought-after, and even more prestigious work involved in running an organization. Various works of literature have suggested that management involves administration and controlling of an organization in accordance with bureaucratic norms, routine, structure, and a well-established system. Leadership, in contrast, involves is ...

Advise To the Mayor City of Kelsey

Advise To the Mayor City of Kelsey

One of the main objectives of the city government is to make sure that there is an efficient and effective strategic planning process for further development of the city and ensure smooth flow of services. In addition, ensuring that there is effective teamwork which have shared visions, missions, sense of direction and objective is critical as this would bind the team for the common objective. The values and motives of the society in the city also play a critical role in enabling building of teamwork. It is important to note that the ...

Personal value as a leader

Personal value as a leader

Identifying and clarifying my personal and professional values

Accountability: as a leader, one is supposed to be accountable for their actions and decisions. These are the facts and conditions that make a leader responsible and accountable for their actions and characters.

Authenticity: transparency and reality are the key factors that ensure a leader trustworthy.

Integrity: it is personal quality to uphold ethical, moral and principles as a leader. It is moral uprightness.

Vision and Missions: These personal values help in setting leadership goals, leadership development, and change.

Intentionality: The value of intentionality is developed through the setting plan, strategy, and action in setting an intentional and genuine effort of change. It is considered as deliberate and purposive effort to change.

What are my priorities?

My priorities are integrity, accountability, and authenticity. These values are ...

Leadership has numerous definitions and dimensions, but I largely view it as the ability of someone to influence other people to willfully and passionately to follow a certain course and achieve some specific objectives. There are several lessons in leadership that can influence me to become a better leader in my professional life. I learned that leaders are not born, but we do make them. To become a good leader, people need to improve themselves and become the best by increasing their ability to be the “best self” (George and Sims, 2010). In this regard, I looked at myself ...

1.1. The problem presented in the case was how the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Tom Pederson, would transform the company by developing a strong company culture. Coming from a long history of struggles, employing talent of varying cultures to help get them thru the challenges they faced, the bank is now faced with the dilemma of how to merge these cultures to come up a with a unified organization. Pederson also had hesitations about the newly-implemented performance evaluation program, which is the first time employees are rated against the company’s vision and values. 1.2. As mentioned, one of ...

Abstract

The purpose of the assignment is to present recommendations for NCOA through using the Senge’s five disciplines of the learning organization. It has been determined that the organization is suffering for the issues system archetypes such as shifting the burden and limit to growth. The organization is not able to deliver the latest knowledge of supply techniques. The top management of the organization lacks in personal mastery, as leaders preferred traditional systems and wanted that instructor also follow the same. The failure of the organization in achieving its goals is the evidence that the firm is suffering from ...

Fairy tales lure children with their simple and easy to understand style and magic in the story.

The common character in any fairy tale is an imaginary being with magical powers. For Example, in “the Cinderella” story, the protagonist, Cinderella gets gold dress and jewelry out of the blue from the fairy godmother in one version or the tree near her mother’s grave in another version of the story. These supernatural powers do not represent the real world. Inculcating this false view of the world through fictional fantasy in children, who are very impressionable in the young ages, causes insidious harm to them. Instead of fostering spirit of scientific thinking, they are doing the exact ...

A leader has the mandate to develop a vision that is compelling as well as a strategy for achieving the vision. To achieve a vision, a leader must organize both the material and human resources. Excellent performance of a given organization does not result as an accident but rather as a product of visionary leadership of that particular organization. When a vision has been drafted, the leadership work to ensure it is achieved within the stipulated time. For that justification, it is prudent for an institution to have strategic leadership for the achievement of its strategic vision. Apart from ...

The Grass Dancer, a book written by Susan Power, who descends from the Native American Sioux people, fascinates the reader with the elaborateness of the plot, complex kinship and thematic saturation. Power weaves a complex story of life and relationships of a young Sioux Harley Wind Soldier living in a reservation in Dakota and struggling to regain his identity. However, the far from being one-sided or hackneyed: the author deploys various techniques to portray the story of the entire Sioux Nation through the array of interrelated characters. However, the main peculiarity of the book lies in Power’s careful ...

Introduction

Strategic management is the central pillar of the success of business organizations (Rothaermel, 2015). The performance, as well as competitive capacities of national and international business organizations, hinge on the role of management (Rothaermel, 2015, p. 128). The needs for strategic approaches to business operations and management have become increasingly important due to increased global competition. Multinational corporations adopt various strategies such as national consolidation of firms and functions. Also, multinational companies engage in international joint business ventures through international mergers and acquisition to enhance their operations. Effective management strategies promote the capacities of business organizations to achieve their ...

Introduction

Contemporary academic analysis is concentrated on the issue of states’ emergence. The former is analyzed in different social, political, and economic contexts. Such state of affairs can be explained from the practical point of view, meaning nowadays there are many players at the international level which have recently appeared. However, in order to understand the nature of the aforementioned processes, the historical analysis is thought to be of great importance, since lots of contemporary phenomena took place in the previous centuries. Thus, in this paper, the correlation between the Sykes-Picot agreement, formation of the Palestinian identity, and creation of ...

Introduction

An expert scientist in the field of intellectual technology, Astro Teller says that Great dreams are not just visions. Great dreams are visions coupled with pragmatic strategies to make them real. Teller, the head of X, earlier known as Google X, takes the audience on a journey through his ‘moonshot factory’ where big dreams are made real. Teller’s team of smart multi-disciplinary professionals takes up many challenging and risky projects through exploring many audacious ideas. Teller appeals to the intellectual youth of the current generation to take up challenging projects without fearing failure. He also views failure as ...

Introduction

The human family in all its forms and all its habitat has undergone struggles to restore the world in order and create a peaceful society. As long as we can remember, the struggle to attain security and peace has been reflected in the various lifestyles of the entire humanity. The nation-state remains the largest single component that comprises of human grouping willing to achieve a peaceful coexistence. It has not been easy to maintain peace in the world we live as nations have engaged each other in conflicts. The detrimental effects that resulted from the first and second world ...

Introduction

My current role is that of a marketing manager where I am working in teams, and different responsibilities are assigned to us by the manager. In my current job, I have to communicate with other members on a regular basis, and I have to learn new concepts and methods to process information in an effective and meaningful manner. I do not have a supervisory role at present, but my job does involve the delegation of authority and regular meetings to resolve issues. My aim is to focus on the role of a strategy developer and play an important role ...

Past, Present, and Future

The Significance of American Indian Ceremonies: Past, Present, and Future

Introduction

Every ceremony in the Native American culture plays a vital and significant role, especially with its people. Some individuals outside the culture often referred the ceremonies as a religion, however, most Native Americans considered their ceremonies as beliefs and practices. The beliefs and practices are part of their rich culture, an integral part of their being, and strongly influenced by their unique methods of living such as acquiring for food, hunting, and agriculture. Every Native American who practiced the tradition and culture believed that their ceremonies could help them ...

Rapid changes that erupted in the United States during the antebellum period in the American history brought to life several new social movements and phenomena. The new society that was formed by the Market Revolution, growth in population, change in its composition and expansion to the west showed a great desire for better life, for self-improvement and correction of the social vices of that time. These processes have resulted in the Second Great Awakening, Utopian communal experiments, temperance, women’s rights societies and other social movements. The story of the Kingdom of Matthias, or in more sober terms, a ...

Final Project

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System Control Center/Federal Electricity and Water Authority

Introduction

2.1. Prophet Muhammad 2.2. Self evaluation 2.3. My attitudes toward different challenges 2.4. FEWA’s desired future leadership competencies 3. Task 2 3.1. Jack Welch/former CEO of GE Company 3.1.1. Jack Welch leadership strategy 3.1.2. Jack Welch leadership style 3.1.3. Jack Welch strengths and areas of development 3.2. “Change plan” 3.2.1. Implementation plan for the change plan 3.2.2. Stakeholders’ involvement in the change. 3.2.3. Strategy for managing resistance to change 4.1. SWOT analysis. 4.2. Individual Development Plan (IDP) 5. Conclusion 6. References 7. Appendix

Introduction

Leadership is one of the significant factors ...

Abstract

The conducted research is aimed at indicating the impact of the healthy food on life of individuals. In order to attain the relevant data with highest level of accuracy the resources written by well-known scientists were used. The up-to-date methods of analysis were applied for the purposes of the study. Basically the research is based on comparing the different visions concerning the thesis stated and evaluating the role of some ideas in making final conclusions. As the result of this study the influence of healthy food was defined. The strong interconnection between the consumed products and the quality of ...

Introduction

Secular states are based on the need to separate the state from religion. Secular states are neutral and do not support any religion. On the contrary, Islamic countries are based on the need to introduce Islamic law within political systems. Religious laws restrict democracy and respect for freedoms and rights as part of secular states restricted by religious laws. The true political rule should be based on divine laws such as Islamic laws. This discussion is based on case studies of Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) and Jamal Abd alNasser, Egypt’s Liberation, 1953. In Iran, case studies ...

KaBOOM is a non-profit organization that exists in the United States which helps the societies to built playgrounds for their children. The company was found in 1996 by Darell Hammond and Dawn Hutchison. Their inspiration to form the company emanated from their reading of the Washington Post where two children suffocated to death. The two were playing in an abandoned car because they did not have a playground to play on. The organization is a non-profit organization which means that it exists solely on help and aid from grants. KaBOOM has a number of missions and visions which it ...

One of the introductory visions in the Book of Revelation is written in chapters 4 and 5 that the Lord Almighty is the one seated on the heavenly throne. The vital theme of chapters 4 and 5 is the own vivid and personal experience of the prophet. It implies that the statement has the element of truth and it has the substance of apocalyptic declaration that is totally associated with the life of the visionary individuals to the present generation of believers. However, at some point, the visionary process separates from the conscious or subconscious imagery of human thinking. ...

Dan Koeppel, in the essay ‘Can This Fruit be saved?’ Explains two contrasting visions of how well to address the impending (banana) crisis. One of the visions is based on the traditional methods of production, aimed at the manufacture of a banana plant with the same taste and appearance as the Cavendish to the extent that consumers cannot tell it is not the one. Aguilar is one of its proponents. Aguilar serves as a head banana breeder at Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Investigation (FHIA).The other vision is shared by bioengineers and is aimed at altering the chromosomes of ...

Leadership and Successful Entrepreneurship

In essence, operating a business requires the capacity to navigate through a wide array of potential risks. For organizations to survive there must be quick response and management of dynamisms of innovations and environments. Primarily, a leader refers to a person that people follow or one who organizes and directs people towards the achievement of common goals. Most leaders consider themselves as entrepreneurs irrespective of their contribution towards the foundation of the company. Leaders in business are those individuals who are particularly successful in decision-making about the direction of the venture, and they have the necessary skills. The world ...

Undoubtedly, managers need to have a specific set of abilities and skills to effectively perform their jobs. But what qualities set successful managers apart from mediocre ones? A manager might be an expert in his field or the smartest person in the company, but this is no guarantee of success. Specifically, to increase the productivity of employees, managers make use of their experiences, knowledge base, and perspectives; however, they also should be effective leaders to inspire others to share common goals. As a matter of fact, leadership is one of the four basic functions that constitute the management process. ...

Impact of Nursing Leadership on Patient Care

Introduction Management and leadership are distinct and interconnected concepts that govern the organizational aspects of planning, organizing, and monitoring the provision of service. Effective management requires ideal leadership qualities; these aspects develop a shared sense of mission that helps achieve the organizational goals while minimizing any organization, political, and resource barrier (Kotter, 1996). Nursing leadership and management are primary and integral aspects of the provision of innovative, quality, and cost-efficient patient care. In particular, nursing leadership and management encompass a wide range of leadership qualities including delivering clinical care, enhancing patient care coordination, as well as boosting quality improvement ...