An Approach to understanding Leadership and Management
by Dr. Claude Hanif Alexander SimpsonPublish: Sep 25, 2024Book Overview
This book illustrates how companies become more efficient in forging a way into the future and sustaining continuous success by applying organizational leadership and management principles. Leaders provide direction and guidance to organizations and steer the vision in their roles. Moreover, leaders build the drive and are responsible for setting and attaining strategic plans, goals, and targets with their entire workforce. Leaders inspire, motivate, and encourage their team members along the way to reach their aims successfully, and leadership is the means to inspire innovation, push the boundaries of teamwork, and foster a healthy corporate culture.Additionally, leaders are known for explaining the mission and values of their organizations so everyone remains focused on keeping on working in the same direction. They can also build and maintain partnerships internally and externally to gain cooperation, alliances, and business growth. Overall, leadership is the key to building more efficient organizations and the instruments to ensure everyone is driven toward success and accomplishment.
Throughout the book, the author outlines a series of foundational principles of good management that are based on a series of foundational principles for an effective, productive organization. The first foundational principle is to communicate clearly and explicitly. Good organizational leaders understand the importance of effectively communicating expectations and knowledge to their employees. This means that they purposefully describe their objectives to their employees and praise or offer feedback promptly. Next, the author outlines that good management requires the leader to be positive in the workplace. By this, the author means that organizational leaders should encourage creating a positive workplace culture characterized by respect and inclusion, encourage collaboration, and emphasize new and innovative ideas. The second principle of good management is that it requires good problem-solving and decision-making.
