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As you grow into a leadership or management position, you are not only responsible for your behavior, but also the behavior of your team members. It is especially important that you and your team are exposed to the idea of failure and how it relates directly to leadership.
Many people avoid situations in which they might fail. Other individuals fear failure so much they will not take a risk or have an opinion other than what the group wants. There is an old adage that says, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”
Select a leader in business, sports, management, or government and plan a short 20-minute interview. The interview may be over the phone or in person.
Suggested interview questions:
- What can be learned by failing?
- You seem pretty confident and successful. Have you ever exposed your team to the idea of failure to prepare them for consequences if the wrong choices are made?
- What can be learned by failing?
- In what ways does failure affect success?
- What do you think is the value of failure?
- How can having a failure change the way you make decisions or do business in the future? How?
- Some leaders seem to always make the right decisions and therefore experience a lot of success. How can too much success interfere with creativity?
- What if we could design a controlled failure system for work that could tap creativity without causing fear or stress?
(Note: Guidelines for Interview Assignments at Strayer University:
(1)Before students engage in an interview assignment, they must adhere to these Guidelines for Interview Assignments at Strayer University:
(a)The purpose of the assignment is to train students in interview / research methods, not to develop or contribute to research that can be applied to situations beyond that studied or that is created to share with others beyond the local setting.
(b)No publication of projects containing the results of or information from the interviews is allowed, including publication in social media, blogs or the Internet generally. The interview findings may only be shared in the class.
(2)When presenting the results of their interviews to their instructor and / or classmates, students may not disclose personally identifiable information about an interviewee, unless they have received written permission from the interviewee as verified by their instructor.
(3)All interviewees must be at least 18 years old.)
Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:
- Propose two (2) ways that you can use a failure in your life or career to improve your vision as a leader.
- Examine the key traits and characteristics that transformational leaders possess. Predict the impact that a transformational leader’s response to a failure would have on performance and behavior in his or her employees. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Determine whether or not you believe that failure is an integral part of life that contributes to leadership effectiveness. Provide two (2) examples to support your response.
- Create a list of five (5) best practices for leaders to follow in order to be effective after a failure in the workplace. Support each practice with examples from your interview.
- Determine the manner in which experiences with failure and leadership affect the risk taking and decision making behaviors of an individual on a leadership track. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Use this template APA_Template_With_Advice_(6th_Ed) .doc
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550 Assignment 1 The Value of Failure in Leadership – Outline
Thesis Statement: The paper interrogates how failure affects the individual. The lesson is
extrapolated to the greater organization and the traits of a transformational leader revealed. The
thesis in this paper is that the attitudes and reactions to failure are central to recovery and success
in the aftermath of a failure
I. Introduction
The concept of failure in the individual and organizational sense is revealed.
II. Literature review
A short review of failure and success in management is done with a view of showing the
relevance of this analysis to the current body of literature. The review, is modeled around the
themes of clarity and collaboration
III Body
A. Ways that failure can improve vision as a leader.
B. When failure dies occur, this section outlines how it improves the visionary
capacity of a leader who had clarity in his objectives from the onset. This sets the
stage for a discussion on how adaptability creates leaders that have
transformational qualities.
C. The best practices that arise from the analysis are elaborated on
Conclusion
A personal statement on the themes in the paper as they presented is done. The
discussions in the paper are wrapped up as the paper draws its conclusions.
Running head: SUCCESS & FAILURE IN LEADERSHIP
Success and Failure in Leadership
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November, 1, 2016
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SUCCESS & FAILURE IN LEADERSHIP
Abstract
This paper looks at the successes of failure. It revolves around the premise that failure is a
necessary part of learning and that it is critical to achieving success. From the knowledge of
transformational leaders, the ethics that anticipate, confront and learn from obstacles that failures
present are discussed. In so doing, the major qualities of transformational leaders will be shown
and discussed. The paper shall also express an opinion on the necessity of failure in life
experiences and whether they affect the performance of duties at the office.
SUCCESS & FAILURE IN LEADERSHIP
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Success and Failure in Leadership
Introduction
Every enterprise in life involves taking a risk. In some ventures, the risk is small; in
others the risk is large. Studies, and indeed common lore, have evolved a standard for the
correlation between great rewards and the amount of sacrifice involved. Some say, “no pain, no
gain.” Even in physical sciences, Isaac Newton’s theory of relativity holds that for every action,
there is an equal and opposite reaction. What this paper interrogates is the capacity of individua...
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