What is it that spurs certain people on to magnificent achievements while others choke bitterly in their dust? There’s an old and true, military motto, “Si vis pacem, para bellum” from Flavius Vegetius Renatus circa 375 AD: “If you want peace, prepare for war. ” When you want something badly enough, you will fight for it. It’s the old, “Live free or die” kind of approach. Watch what people do and you will see their true level of commitment.
Ayn Rand spoke about this kind of bulletproof resolution. “There are two sides to every issue” she said, “one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for oice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth…” truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of chFence sitters and cowards exist in a moral fog where they never really commit to anything but their hatred of success.
Achievers are prepared to fight to the death. Sidney Sheldon put it best: “The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. ” Roosevelt said, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Winners don’t cut and run. They are in the fight until the end. They stay the course. They know that anything worthwhile will take a bit longer and take some doing. They understand that they will face a few detours, disappointments, and distractions. They expect the unexpected. They are warriors who realize that war is war. They don’t make excuses or expect the state or mommy to help them. They don’t find the strongest people to blame for their inadequacies, spinelessness and weakness. They bounce back courageously and fight on.
They are the “Steel fist in the silken glove” – when you push them, you find out whom you’re really dealing with. During my years working with entrepreneurs, I’ve learnt an important lesson: You can put a loser into the best business with excellent products and a great market and he will fail miserably. But you can put a winner in a failing business with no hope and he will turn it into a wonderful success story. It has very little to do with your circumstances – winners can turn lemons into lemonade, every time. It’s who they are.
Management Question
Leadership Development: Critical Thinking Assignment-3
Module 05: Transformational Leadership
As we have studied during this Module, transformational leaders encourage their employees to share ideas. This type of leader motivates employees and seeks collaboration to achieve goals. They take the time to listen to employees and evaluate ideas. Open communication, cooperation, and risk-taking are characteristics that often describe transformational leaders.
When COVID-19 began, Salam, the general manager of XYZ’s chain restaurant, conducted a meeting with all employees. During the meeting, Salam shared COVID-19 related information and expressed the critical importance of customer safety.
As a transformational leader, Salam wanted to involve all employees in the decision-making process to determine if masks and gloves should be used by employees, the number of customers to be served inside the restaurant at one period of time, how sanitation efforts could be encouraged, and more. Since the transformational leadership approach was used, the process of determining what was best for the organization took countless meetings and over one month to agree upon. While waiting to make a final decision, employees became ill with COVID-19 and the restaurant needed to close for longer than anticipated.
Thinking about the case presented above:
1. Determine if the transformational leadership style was the best approach to use.
2. Explain what leadership approach you would have used if you were in Salam’s position (i.e., transactional leadership, charismatic leadership, or transformational leadership).
3. Explain the advantages and disadvantages with using the transactional leadership approach as compared to the transformational leadership approach.
4. If you were Salam, what would you have done differently and why?
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
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Northouse, P. G. (2022). Leadership: Theory and practice (9th ed.). Sage Publications. Print ISBN: 9781544397566, 1544397569 eText ISBN: 9781071834473, 1071834479
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