Table of Contents

Task 1 – Case Study................................................................................................................... 2

Task 2 – Essay........................................................................................................................... 5

Task 3 – Speaker Notes.............................................................................................................9

References................................................................................................................................ 12
 Task 1 – Case Study
Amazon:

Background:

Jeff Bezos was established by his 'unfortunate minimization scheme,' which reflected his

attempts to repel regrets that he was not part of the Internet business boom at the time. In 1994,

Bezos left his position as vice-chairman of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street company, entered

into a marketing campaign for Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington.

On 5 July 1994, Cadabra Inc. formally incorporated the company in Washington. For several

months, he switched the company to Amazon.com, Inc, after being mistakenly named a

corporate lawyer. Since his early days, the firm has moved from the Bezos house garage on

28th Street since Bellevue, Washington, to north-eastern. Bezos acquired the web address

relentless.com in September 1994 and considered calling his online store Relentless briefly. Yet

friends said the name was a little bad. The domain is still owned and distributed to the seller.

Meaning of strategic leadership:

Common leadership refers to managers' ability to communicate and inspire people to achieve a

common vision for the company or part of the enterprise. Strategic leadership may also be

described as the use of workforce management policy. This will affect the leaders of the

organization and make internal changes. Strategic management creates hierarchical systems,

transfers capital, and communicates strategic strategy. In an uncertain climate, political

executives focus their attention on very complex issues that will affect and be affected by

potential incentives and organizations

The Importance of strategic leadership:

The most important aspect of strategic leadership is to motivate staff to make collective actions

that benefit the company. For these cases, strategic planner plans for the future and

acknowledges both the long-term vision and the awareness of the immediate nature of the

enterprise.

Innovative strategy. Leaders are squandering the entire situation and going beyond the usual

path. We are excellent at visualizing the future so we know what works and what doesn't work

and they understand new thoughts and dreams. Jeff from the very beginning was able to see

the future and he pioneered the online retailing concept. His vision finally put forward with the

internet boom and now he even threatens the old American retail giant like Walmart.

The Amazon mainly follows it's 14 leadership principles which give it an upper edge over other

companies. Its customer eccentricity is at the very core of its leadership principle. It also

empowers its employee to make the decision that is best for the organization.

The nine top strategic leadership positions are:

The Navigator — The boss works efficiently and effectively to deal with challenges, addresses

issues, and uses different ways to manipulate current workers. The leader's position as a

navigator allows him to evaluate a vast number of contradictory results, consider the root cause

of the problems, and find viable and optimal solutions.

Strategist — The leader's leadership position helps the leader to establish a long-term

approach and to set goals to suit an organization's goal. The policy focuses on establishing

strategic goals and concrete action. The strategic position helps the leader to direct the

organization to achieve the ultimate goal.

Entrepreneur — The leader works as a contractor in this role. It discovers and develops

resources and expands its industry by developing new products, services, or markets. Thinking

like a consultant as a company shareholder, the boss creates fresh ideas, takes advantage of

openings or suggestions as transforms them into a different direction. The leader draws on his

consistency and intellect and introduces a new form of leadership to overcome challenges

quickly.

Mobilizer — The strategic chief plays the role of mobilizing all kinds of capital and builds teams

and collaborators to collaborate through them across the collaboration of a broad variety of

skills. He/she also builds the capacity to rapidly execute research and accomplish specific

targets.

Talent advocates-The strategic leader identifies talented and skilled employees internally and

externally and keeps contact with them to use their talents as required. He/she builds a

community of career growth by encouraging new ideas, educating, and empowering talented

workers to gain their best skills.

Captivator — The strategic leader plays the position of captivator, develops employee morale,

and promotes optimistic emotions and a sense of belonging. In this position, the leader

transforms employee expertise into valuable results for the organization. He also persuades

workers to embrace their leadership style, synchronizes them with the organization's mission,

and helps them to fulfill the goal.

Global thinker — Another important position of a strategic leader is as a global thinker.

Leaders recognize and value all forms of diversity in the company, and implement policies and

behaviors to consider diversity aspects. From a broad macro perspective, he is committed to

finding global opportunities.

Changing drivers — Companies need to continuously improve to respond to the changing

market environment. Strategic advisors play a vital role in the transition. The leader develops

and develops strategies for managing change and techniques for employees to accept changes

occasionally. The supervisor persuades the workers by predicting the positive outcomes of the

improvements.

Corporate guardian – Strategic leader functions as a corporate guardian in this role. He/she

continues to track the organization's position by maintaining a close watch on the operating

atmosphere and defending the enterprise from disruptions. The leader needs to compromise

long-term benefits. He/she takes courageous and smart choices with courage and risk for the

long-term benefit of the organization. The supervisor takes responsibility for loss and celebrates

success with all workers. Keeps away from personal thoughts and interactions when it comes to

performance

Task 2 – Essay
Business leader Steve Jobs was a genius leader whose main focus is always on achieving

excellence. His role in driving the organizational performance is disclosed below-

Vision - He had a great creative vision which helped the business to grow and motivated

employees to work with his vision in achieving those goals.

Confident - He was a confident leader who believed in himself and gave the same confidence

to his employees and staff to break the barriers and expand themselves in a competitive world.

Dynamic - He was very flexible and adaptable to the changing technology. He leads the team in

such a way that they can grasp more opportunities and provide innovative products to the

market.
The leadership theory of power and influence, use an entirely different approach from other

theories. The leadership theory of power and influence is based on various ways that a leader

adopt to use power and influence to get things done and the followers(team member) look at the

leadership style that emerges as an outcome. This approach focuses on the power and

influence network generated by the leader. Based on the assumption that all roads lead to the

leader.

Here, Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an organized group towards

objective achievement.

Power can be defined as the ability of one party (leader) to influence the other party (follower or

team member) or to influence the behavior or attitude of one or more designated target persons

at a given point in time.

Influence resembles power but tends to be more suitable and indirect. The outcome of influence

attempts is:- commitment, compliance, and resistance.

Exercise of leadership power:

 A person can execute the power without being a leader,

 Any person may not be a leader without having power,

 Leadership is the main exercise of power;

 So, leaders must be able to develop the proper bases of Business organizational power,

 So, leaders must use power effectively,

 As this power is efficiently in influencing employees,

 Power by self-improvement ideas,

 Power is to strengthen leadership skills,

 Power is based to achieve goals for the organization,

 Leaders must be able to completely control by executing their followers

Exercise of leadership influence: (4 types of influence: positive, negative, neutral and

life-changing)

 Program leadership skills can influence employees,

 Its often executed by punishing them for unpleasant behavior,

 This can be in the form of an unethical approach towards work,

 Or by undesirable task assignments,

 Or by closer supervision,

 Or even termination from the job,

 This Punishment can also be observed as the absence of rewards,

 Or even the absence of resources,

 Alternatively, positive influence is the Influence skills of leadership is the creation to

motivate the employees,

 All employees have to work towards the achievement of a common goal through the

common leader's influence,

 Leaders need to sell thoughts and ideas for the influencing others,

 Leaders need to implement the decisions by influencing which benefits the Business

vision,

 Also to inspire others to take action,

 This may be by a separate factor between a leader and a manager in the work arena,

 The best leaders can effectively influence all staffs,

 Influence of Leadership may be down and across the Business organization,

 This influence often impacting business results,

 The positive outcome is by driving behavior change

Leadership not only motivates workers to follow orders. However, in an incohesive, be

proactive, strong, solution-oriented, and efficient. This leader can be achieved in three ways:

motivation, motivation, and support for common goals. The labor market in the 21st century

has become more active. The company has discovered the benefits and principles of

innovation to ensure that over time, that becomes the best choice for its consumers and

achieves profitability. Company employees are one of the strongest sources of fair

compensation.

Inspiration invites people in various roles to show creativity and consistency. Show

participation, transparency, and self-management capabilities, representing better

performance indicators. Then, the effect goes beyond the human aspect, which drives

others to pursue inspiration and encouragement, so that they perform well and outstandingly

at work. Encourage collaboration and prove that the best results depend on (not) all

compromises by the team. Guidelines on specific goals usually encourage creative and

capable leaders to focus on achieving optimistic and demanding goals. This is a common

mission and common goal, the co-creation of all people. Everyone also hopes to make

important contributions to their achievements. The difference in the labor market is that

employers understand the importance of team leaders. Those who encourage, motivate,

and guide people to achieve specific goals to achieve personal and organizational success.

Conclusion - We will also study the leadership, strategy, leadership, and transition of the

leadership team. However, the most terrible task is for the youngest and oldest among us.

We must support citizens in their leadership path and growth, first to ourselves, and then to

our company and us.

 The criteria for measuring or assessing the strategic effectiveness of a leadership

perspective are as follows:

1. Assessment of an organization's strategic effectiveness leads to the identification of the

loopholes and gaps in strategic planning.

2. Any gaps and shortcomings identified in the strategy are then modified and changed so

that it can match the organizational objectives and the efficiency of the organization.

3. To align the strategy of human resource management with the strategy of the

organization. So that both the strategies work in synergy and helps in the optimal

performance of the organization.

Task 3 – Speaker Notes

A team may be defined as a group of individuals who join together either temporarily or

permanently to attain a specific goal. In the workplace, there are several types of teams that are

segregated based on their characteristics. They are as follows:

Project team: In a project team two or more individuals join together to work on a particular

project. Typically the project team gets diluted after the project ends. For example, A team

involved in the construction of a house.

Crossfunctional team: A cross-functional team is when two or more individuals from separate

departments or functions join together to achieve a common goal. For example, A team working

on developing a new product involving persons from different functional expertise.

Self-directed team: A self-directed team has the authority and even the budget to independently

manage on its own based on its own set of goals. For example, Federal Express uses a self-

directed team where the individual team is responsible for the success or failure of the project.

The Importance of a team:

Teamwork improves efficiency as the workload is shared among different individuals within the

team reducing the pressure on a single person. A simple example is moving a heavy load from

the ground floor to the first floor through stairs. When two or more people share the weight, the

load can be lifted easily.

Teamwork emphasizes learning new things from others as it helps to gain new concepts or

ideas from people who have more experience and expertise on the particular factor. This helps

to expand the skills and knowledge that can be learned from colleagues.

Leadership may be defined as the ability of an individual to guide or have control over an

individual or a set of teams. In simple terms, it is the art of motivating other individuals to get the

desired job done. Some of the leadership qualities that make good leaders are:

Decision-making skills

Creativity and Innovation

Communication

Technically proficient

Honesty or Integrity

Workgroups Teams
  The individual has their  The accountability is both on the individual

accountability in the workgroups. and the whole team.

 Workgroups focus on individual  Shared goals are focused as a team.

goals and achievements.  Collective work products are produced in the

 Individual work products are team.

produced in the workgroups.  The goals and objectives are set or shaped

 Goals and objectives are shaped by by the leader within the team.

the manager of the workgroups.  The individuals of a team meet very

 Individuals in the workgroup meet frequently to discuss various factors such as

periodically together to share decision making, planning, problem-solving,

information and their perspectives. etc.,

Formal group Informal group

 In a formal group task accomplishment is the  In an informal group personal

main objective. satisfaction is the main objective.

 The formal group structure is predefined and  The structure of an informal group is

is well defined. not well defined.

 In a formal group, importance is given based  In an informal group, importance is

on the position. given based on the person.

 The relationship between one another within  The relationship between one another

the group is mostly professional where the in the group is mostly personal where

communication moves in an appropriate the communication moves in all the

direction. directions.

 The life of the formal group depends on the  The life of the group depends on the
 individuals involved in the group.

type of group.  The size of an informal group is

 The size of the formal group is usually large. relatively small.

It is necessary to develop the team appropriately to achieve the desired target. According to

Bruce Tuckman, there are four stages involved in developing a group. They are:

Forming - The forming stage is the initial stage of the group development that involves bringing

the individuals having a different set of skills altogether

Storming - In the storming stage, the team members need to be informed with the set of goals

and objectives that are expected from the team. During the storming stage, the members of the

team share their perspectives on how the goals and objectives can be achieved.

Norming - When then the purpose of the team is clearly defined, the team now focuses on

shared values on how the work will be done and when and through which medium they need to

be communicated

Performing - The performing stage is the final stage of the team development in which the team

performs a defined task. Motivation is required at this stage to drive the team successfully

towards the goal.

Leadership plays an important role especially at the performing stage to support and motivate

the team towards the goal. All the attributes of leadership are needed to be implemented to

maximize the effectiveness of the team. Apart from technical and managing skills, the leader

should possess a proper communication trait in such a way that desired performance and

decisions are communicated effectively and ensured that the team is clear on their expected

tasks.
References
 Alsop, S. (1999, January 11). Is there an Amazon.com for every industry? Fortune .159-

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 Rachel Smith; Strategic Leadership: The 10 Characteristics Of A Good Leader

 Walter Isaacson, The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

 Mind Tools Content Team, Understanding the Stages of Team Formation