Harshini Rajkumar Management 150 - 23307 Inspirational Leader - Jack Dorsey For most people 24 hours a day is insufficient to accomplish tasks. In order to achieve the incredible and transform the world, leaders tend not to waste even a minute. In business, these are transformational leaders who achieve excellence in their organizations by inspiring and empowering employees to embrace the company's values as their own. Employees work harder, do not burn out and conquer obstacles with persistence. Analytically these leaders know what to sell, who to sell to and who should sell. They tend to acquire a powerful workforce and retain them by identifying and understanding employee needs and implementing strategies to meet them. Happy employees deliver superior performance and display loyalty to their company. While researching for such a transformational leader, I came across Mr. Jack Dorsey, an American businessman, and web-developer, co-founder, and CEO of Twitter and Square (Loizou 2018). Growing up in Missouri, young Mr. Dorsey became very interested in computers and programming. At the age of 15, he wrote a dispatch software for taxicab companies that is used even today. Following the tradition of every tech entrepreneur and mogul, he dropped out of college and later started two …show more content…
Dorsey founded his company, Twitter while working as a low-level coder for a podcast company called Odeo. Odeo technology became obsolete when Apple's iTunes was introduced. Henceforth, Odeo co-founders, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams joined forces with Jack Dorsey, to introduce Twitter and the concept of microblogging to the world in 2006. Mr. Dorsey was appointed as CEO of Twitter in 2007 (Wolan 2011). In 2008, he was fired from Twitter. Facing a career threat of colossal magnitude, Mr. Dorsey could have easily given up. Instead, he founded another company Square in 2009. His persistence and passion for his work led him to be re-hired by Twitter as CEO in 2015 (Savitz
...selbein and Cohen, “organizations that take the time to teach leadership are far ahead of the competition. By becoming familiar with the transformational leadership approach and combining the four I's, managers can become effective leaders in the business world.” (1999, p. 263). Transformational leadership can be applied in one-on-one or group situations. Using this approach, the manager (leader) and the associates (followers) are “transformed” to enhance job performance and help the organization be more productive and successful. All of these leaders have the attributes mentioned here. History will decide the greater impact they had on society as it is being written every day. Therefore, the qualities of transformational leadership make the essence of transformational management and the key to successful management of transformational organizational changes.
CVS CEO Larry Merlo demonstrates the transformational style of leadership. Transformational leaders like Mr. Merlo employs the kind of leadership that motivates employees to invest their energy into strategies ( Kouzes & Posner, 2007). His leadership philosophy and behavior aligns with the description and definition of a transformational leader. According to Kouzes and Posner (2007) , transformational leadership occurs when in the process of interaction, individuals raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality (Kouzes & Posner, 2007). Their goal, which might have started as distinct and separate, but related, become fused (Kouzes & Posner, 2007). When individuals are part of an entity that raises them to higher levels
Mr. Cuban’s first adventure after graduating college was the industry of technology where he worked as a salesperson for a PC software retailer. He learned a lot as a salesperson but could not sit back and relax while his boss was making a huge profit. Mark decided to start his business Microsolutions, which he sold to CompuServe eight years later and made a profit of over five millions dollars. Yahoo bought broadcast, which was formerly called AudioNet, before the tech collapse. Mark and a friend from Indiana University made a fortune. He always seems to be in the right place at the right time and his career in the business world is becoming very successful.
This model has been used over decades in research to chime in on the importance of knowing the behavior of leader’s and their effect on those who work for them. According to Brymer and Gray (2006), effective transformational leadership ensures a supportive culture and does not require boundaries and guidance. The concept of transformational leadership was created to bring together leaders and those who work for them, which in turn impact those in whom they serve because their personality is viewed in a positive
...rming relationships with employees was made clear by being efficient and fair to preserve and inspire their workforce. These results can be further studied in a dissertation that is duplicated in a different culture to test the consistency of its findings. Using the information from these two studies, it is clear that transformational leaders behaviors have an impact on their follower’s perception (Bacha and Walker, 2012; Cho and Dansereau, 2010).
Aside from being CEO of Zappos.com, he is also the co-founder of Link Exchange and the general manager of Venture Frogs, LLC, which is an investment firm that invested in startups like Ask Jeeves, and of course, Zappos.com.
In this time of transition and uncertainty, research suggests that transformational leadership is highly effective (Straight, 2006). Leadership research has drifted from emphasis on the competence of leaders to “manage change” to the ability to “transform” organizations. Transformational leaders have attributes and behaviors needed to successfully motivate and empower employees. According to Bernard Bass (1990), transformational leadership occurs when a leader transforms, or changes, his or her followers in three important ways that together result in followers trusting the leader, performing behaviors that contribute to the achievement of organizational goals, and being motivated to perform at a high level. Transformational leaders can achieve greater performance by stimulating innovative ways of thinking and transforming follower’s beliefs and aspirations. Maxwell (Maxwell, 2007) articulates that most of the time, influence is more important than formal power or authority. I agree with him. Influence is very important in organizational and co...
Doody and Doody (2012) posit that transformational leadership encourages leaders to motivate employees by adhering to higher moral standards. This appeal to inspire employees to behave in such a way that advances the overall mission of the organization results in employees gaining more self-actualization than they would likely see from a more transactional style of leadership. Transactional styles of leadership, which promote adherence to rules based on a reward system, tend to accomplish only the specific goals set forth by the organization (Vaismoradi et al., 2016). Transformational leadership on the other hand, encourages employees to exceed current standards and motivates them to fully adopt the deeper purpose of the organization (Lievens & Vlerick, 2013). Transformational leaders are compelling and dynamic, motivating employees by making the goal so stimulating that this vision is embraced by the team (Weiss & Tappen, 2015). Viasmoradi et al. assert that transformational leaders create a supportive environment where employees are encouraged to come up with creative solutions to challenges, resulting in an improvement in patient outcomes
For everyone in the business world, Mark Zuckerberg is a well-known name to them. He is an undeniably young, successful businessman. However, Zuckerberg is also a very successful leader in his own company as well as in the world. His impact from creating Facebook is more than just impressive. Zuckerberg created the social media website where people get connected virtually and led the company to incredible success. Zuckerberg’s leadership style can be seen with inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and idealized influence. With all the aforementioned components, Mark Zuckerberg is a great example of transformational leadership.
According to Yoder-Wise (2015), a leader can be defined as, “an individual who works with others to develop a clear vision of the preferred future and to make that vision happen” (p 35). As employees, we often have our own ideal of a good leader, which may be influenced by experiences and perception of workplace norms. While one’s opinion of an effective leader may vary, there are several recognized leadership theories. The following will focus on the transformational leadership approach.
To become a truly effective leader, one must encapsulate the various behaviors related to the aforementioned course learnings in his/her persona and demonstrate such behaviors daily. This course has allowed me to identify four behaviors that all leaders must portray to be effective. The first of which is that a leader must be inspirational. To do so, a leader must set the appropriate vision and direction for the organization and provide a path to achieving defined goals. Additionally, a leader must induce the proper levels of motivation so that each employee has sufficient incentive to work towards the organization’s goals. As discussed in the class, motivation can be accomplished by factors such as rewarding hard work and providing the correct opportunities to employees. While these are motivating in that employees desire to be fairly compensated and to be doing work they deem valuable, inspiration comes more from organizational culture. A leader will be inspirational by setting a tone that appreciates each employee’s contribution, no matter how small in scale it is. Further, employees are inspired when they work collaboratively in a group setting and can capitalize on individual strengths to drive organizational goals.
A quick look at inspirational motivation component in transformation leadership, the leader is considering “behave in the way that motivate and inspire those around them providing meaning and challenge to their followers’ work… Leaders get followers involved in envisioning attractive future states; they create clearly communicated expectations that followers want to meet and also demonstrate commitment to goals and shared vision” (6, transformational leadership introduction). Mark Zuckerberg is a perfect sample of this component. In the book “The Facebook effect”, David Kirkpatrick has a chance to talk to the young CEO of Facebook and this is what Mark Zuckerberg assure his vision of the company: “We’re a utility-We’re trying to increase the efficiency through which people can understand their world. We’re not trying to maximize the time spent on our site. We’re trying to help people have a good experience and get the maximum amount out of that time” (10, Kirkpatrick). This does not just show how Zuckerberg envisions his company as but it is also shown how Zuckerberg provide a meaningful
Transformational leaders birth new transformational leaders. Followers themselves become transformational leaders and a journey of extra mile partnership started.
The old system of management has undergone many changes within the last century. An employee once performed the assigned job duties during the allotted hours and then went home. Now employees are encouraged to grow, give input, and to contribute for the good of the organization. There is a plethora of information for leaders to learn why and how to grow personally thus allowing the organization to grow as well. This new emerging leader is a transformational leader.
Because of this fact most organizations and entrepreneurs are paying close attention the the leaders they put in place to lead their company and its people into victory, which is the ultimate goal of their organizations. It is a well known fact that leadership is an important factor in an organization’s success, but the type of leadership style and as well as the leader 's personality is what really determines that level of success. In my research I have concluded that the most important leadership styles are transformational and transactional leadership. Transformational leadership has the potential to resurrect, transform and keep companies evolving with time. Transactional leadership although can have some negative effects on some, but if used properly, can promote compliance almost a stagnant team through both rewards and punishments. When companies are pursuing leaders, they not only look at their candidates experiences knowledge of a particular sector of that business, but they pay close attention to the personalities of these individual. They do so because they know that one’s leadership style and abilities is heavily affected by the candidates own personality and views. As a result of this thinking, it has lead all authors involved in both research paper and article “Relationship Between Leaders Personality Types and Source of Power and leadership Styles Among Managers” and “