Leadership & Management

Leadership and Management

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Leadership is the quality and skill of influencing and motivating people towards accomplishment of a common goal . For an organization to realize it objectives , sound leadership skills are important . There is an unending debate on whether leaders are born or made . The answer would lie on the definition that someone gives to leadership . As the CEO and founder of Dodcom Systems , a leading Telecommunication and office solution company in the United States , I would echo the sentiments of Colin

Powell that leaders are made and not born (Stanford Report , 2005 Different leaders possess different qualities that define their leadership styles and their styles determine the success or failure of the group or organization they lead . Some leaders embrace autocracy bureaucracy or even democracy . I believe democracy to be an effective style to drive a company to success and this is the leadership style I use to lead Dodcon Systems . In this , I will try to illustrate the leadership qualities that I use to drive this company everyday

Democracy is a leadership style that centers on people , engaging employees in developing their own decisions (Pride , Hughes Kapoor 2009 . It involves viewing opposition as partners and challenges to make a leader better . Dodcom system has always encouraged opinions from employees , whether their opinions are in line with our objectives or not . By taking into considering the pessimistic or optimistic views of all employees , we guarantee ourselves against overlooking any situation For instance , when...