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Assignment 2: Leadership Strategies Presentation
Directions:
Taking on the role of a CEO, develop a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 15 slides that explains how you would adapt the Western leadership strategies of either Heifetz and Linsky or Drucker in your approach to managing an international organization on the brink of structural change and expansion. One of your main goals will be to motivate and communicate a vision while connecting to the firm’s mission for all stakeholders, including your Board of Directors. A brief profile of the organization is as follows:
- The company is a manufacturing firm with annual earnings in excess of $350 million.
- It is headquartered in the United States, has two branches in the United Kingdom, and one expansion branch set to open in China.
- A new branch will provide more innovative technologies to infuse the firm’s declining market share while also presenting cultural management and organizational integration challenges.
Your presentation should contain the following components:
- Identification of your chosen leadership philosophy with justification of your choice.
- Using Porter’s Five Forces as a strategic guide, please explain how you will approach Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Risk Assessment.
- Complete a Financial Risk Assessment for acquiring the new technology company by identification and explanation of at least four risks which could impact your organization.
- Identification and explanation of the key internal structures (at least 3) that will be designed to enhance the culture within your organization
- Explanation of how projected global and market trends over the next 10-15 years will impact your company’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage.
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LEADERSHIP
IN STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND EXPANSION
Leadership is for the common good
• Leadership is the ability of a company’s management to align and achieve challenging but realizable goals, take
swift and decisive actions to outperform the competitors as well as inspiring others to perform excellently.
• Leadership entails relationship development, resource mobilization and image management.
o Relationship development involves the high level interaction by the leader to develop relationships
identify the desired outcomes, determine the requirements to achieve the desirable results as well as
maintaining high levels of personal commitment from the stakeholders.
o Resource mobilization entails the roles of obtaining financial resources and balancing the various demands
besides managing the in an effective and efficient manner.
o Image management on the other hand entails the behavior of crating a reputation that involve melding of
beliefs and ones actions to corresponds to the followers expectations.
• According to Ronald Heifetz And Marty Linsky, in their book Leadership on the Line, the goals of
leadership are described as being beyond material gain and personal development. It is, therefore,
considered as for common good and such worth risking for its higher values that surfaces unresolved
conflicts.
Continuation…
• The intriguing leadership concept by Heifetz and Linsky puts meaningful challenges on the need for the
adaptive leaders who should be capable to exercise their responsibilities without authority.
• The adaptive leaders requires large scale social change with a broad cross- section coordination of situation
to result in the collective impact initiatives.
• This implies that the leadership is grounded of several conditions which include:
❖ have a common agenda
❖ mutually reinforced activities
❖ continuous communication
❖ Sharing measurement systems
• However, the risk involved with leadership responsibilities not only require making rational decision but also
the heart and soul for the work. According to Kansas Leadership Centre, leadership is a sacrifice that takes
one’s heart and soul to counter the risk involved for the common good (Shafritz, Ott and Jang, 2015).
Porter’s five forces
• Since capital; investment in real world markets involve high risk, project appraisal techniques have to bear risk
consideration. This implies that the foreign direct investment decision making have to emphasize on the strategic analysis
rather than the financial analysis. More importantly is how the risk is assessed and managed during the financial decision
making process.
• According to Michael Porter, organizations have to keep close watch on their rivals but look beyond their competitor’s
actions to examine their impact on the business environment. In his work, he identified five model of analysis to explain
the sustainability and prof...
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