约克大学学习总结金敏

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

According to our innovation thinking program, leadership is not about a list of some qualities, attributes, charisma and it cant be same in all the leaders, its all about delivery of performance, the way managers present, solve issues and have got the ability to make other people work in a right way. Leadership is not always about consequences in between leader and followers and it wont be consider as affective leadership if there is lack of consequences in between leader and followers, On the other hand it doesn’t mean that followers always think and believe that whatever leader says is right. example of good team and leader is that whenever leader is wrong, followers should raise the point with the appropriate knowledge and logic and on the other hand leader If think any doubt about his planning he should take valid points in to consideration and try to accept and amend it. When person start saying he doesn’t know here learning starts and person who is a good listener is always a good leader.

There are 3 styles of leadership which are as follow:

1. a) Authoritarian or autocratic:

This style is specifically use when leaders tell their employee that they want this done and in that time period usually in such cases all the information is ready or available. This condition is suitable when employees has al the relevant information to solve the problem o rleader is short on time and employees are well motivated. Some people think that this style is yelling style, like ordering rather then working as a team.

1. b) Participative (Democratic):

This style involves the leader to include one or more employees in the decision making process in terms of what to do and how to do? However leader maintains the final decision making authority but on one hand it shows weakness of the leader that he doesn’t have full knowledge, but its always not necessary that leader should have all the knowledge of the problem. If leaders use this style its mutual benefit on one hand it allows leader to become part of a team and on the other hand allows leader to make better decision.

1. c) Delegative (Free Reign):

In this style managers allow employee to take decision but still leader has the power of final decision and he can apply this practice only if he trust his employees in such a way that even if they take wrong decision so he will be responsible. In a whole task you cant do everything you must allocate certain tasks to employees.

Normally good leaders apply all the three styles in their work it just depend on the nature of work and time that which style has to follow and in leadership, leader should never be so soft that its so easy for employee to mould it and never be so hard that could easy to break.

Before discussing about global leadership skills its important to have some reviews on leadership skills first to get the appropriate vision of global leadership skills.

“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.” (Andy Grove)

Organization is like a horse, just like horse need a good rider same as organization needs a good leader to run up to its maximum capacity, see long term goals, give vision to the strategies around the world. Effective leadership of the company is essential for every organization in the world of today. Global leadership requires not only training but also vast amount of experience and confident to run the company in its difficult time. As its not essential that global leadership should be the same as discuss in the above reading because thousands of research has been done on this topic by various writers and especially now a days where companies aren’t limited to production of units it has been expanded to services as well so in terms of services role of global leader can be different up to some extent, in that case information technology and knowledge management plays vital role.

The success of Toyota which has been discussed above is not only because of their leadership skills but it about the organization culture as well the way they have created that culture which they named as The Toyota Way and also 14 principles of Toyota. Person in any company name as Business manager – Country manager – Functional manager and Corporate manager considered to different person for different jobs but this can be done by one person depending up on his contacts, experience and the way he performed his duties. Role of local leader is no more different then the role of global leader but just add on some extra powers and when extra powers comes it doesn’t come alone it always come with greater responsibility.