business leadership

Do you believe leaders can change their behavior or personalities ? Why do you think so ? Example if possible

Leaders can change their personalities and behavior according to the need of hour and requirement . Their personality may vary from being democratic to authoritive . This is required so that people under specific leadership may achieve desired goals and results

The changes may occur in particular way of dealing with people or doing some task . Leaders understand the behavior and expectation of crowd and work accordingly

At the core of empowering leadership is the

ability to energize the people in a company . Jack Welch commented "You may be a great manager but unless you can energize other people , you are of no value to General Electric as a leader " Energizing others is the core of the new leadership in America

Leaders try to work from all the ways to have impact on the followers from persuasive behavior to authoritive behavior . They empower people if required or they simply assign responsibilities to them . Leadership behavior and personalities changes depend on the personality and behavior of the followers as well . Some people are ready to take risk responsibilities and accountability of the work assign to them . For such kind of followers leaders adopt empowering personalities where in the case vice versa their personality would be authoritive

One of the most important examples of change in the behavior and personality of leadership is British Prime Minister `Mr . Tony Blair Based on a research prior to election campaign revealed that certain aspects of the personality of Blair has not been taken in a positive way among voters specially female voters . Due to the reason Blair has gone through special sessions to change these aspects

Did you have a personal working example or did you see or hear about leader who changes completely or partly

I used to work in an organization where traditional way of doing business (authoritive business framework ) was followed . The boss and their bosses had the feeling that the best way of doing business is tell people to do things in certain ways . The targets were set for the marketing and sales team . There was no different team for branding and promotional activities and they used to work under the same boss of sales and marketing . Hence the branding activities of the firm were highly influenced with the sales target of the sales team . Wherever sales team has to approach first branding team was sent there to create a positive impact . After couple of month branding team realized that people instead of taking their branding efforts as a brand building exercise are taking it as a pre-sales activities and it was no good . The general manager marketing was less bothered about this image and was more concerned for the targets . Mean while board of directors decided to have a full fledged branding team under an expert of brand and promotions . A person hired for this particular task has entirely different approach than the existing...