critical analysis draft

Explore your thoughts here: The importance of effective leaders has become even more important with the current highly dynamic and complex environment.

For leaders to be able to lead effectively in these environments, they must exhibit some traits which may either be inherited or learnt.

Effective leaders must have certain characteristics that are not common in the general population to help them make right decisions.

In general, an effective leader must be able execute the vision of an organization and set a positive culture.

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Bibliographic Info

Souba, W., & Souba, M. (2018). How effective leaders harness the future. Academic Medicine, 93(2), 166-171.

Mittal, S. (2019). Qualities of effective leaders: A staff survey.

Moskovitz, J. (2019). Choice, Traits, and Leadership: The Effect of Decision-Making Strategy on Effective Leadership Qualities (Doctoral dissertation).

Key Arguments

Future orientation is very important for effective leaders as it helps them to plan and place them in a strategic position to tackle future challenges.

Followers expect their leaders to provide guidance and handle challenges that they face o their daily activities, for this reason the leader must be honest confident and respectful.

Effective leadership qualities influence the behaviors of their followers.

Evidence

Many years ago, philosopher Martin Heidegger argued that the future is the primary temporal dimension of human existence, a dimension embodied by our projection forward into unfolding possibilities

Multiple studies show that individuals who lack qualities of honesty confidence and respect are not effective leaders.

Results indicate that a greater propensity to maximize predicts a greater preference for control, which could pose problems when delegating tasks is necessary.

Qualifications

Your Feelings

I feel that effective leaders must be able to predict the future and adopt strategies to handle challenges in the future.

I believe that leaders must be confident enough to make the right decisions in complex situations.

Leaders ought to have an influencing power to guide their followers on their daily activities.

Why this subject is important

These subject his important because of the increased complexity of leadership environments.

This discussion will help leaders to determine qualities that they need to have to lead effectively.

This subject will help those in leadership positions to develop strategies to help influence their employees.

Larger themes or questions that arise in you after reading

Qualities of effective leaders.

Significance of honesty, confidence and respect in leadership

Importance of influence in leadership.

Step 1:

Identify your thoughts on the prompt. Be as specific as possible.

Your Own Ideas:

Effective leaders exhibit ambition, commitment, confidence, passion and courage as well as providing guidance, direction and inspiration.

Step 2:

Based upon your knowledge of your texts, try to articulate exactly how your above ideas or element is addressed within each text. What does each text say about your idea? Be specific!

Source 1:

This source focuses on the importance of future orientation in leadership. Being future oriented can help a leader to achieve an organization’s goals through solving various challenges faced on the way to success.

Source 2:

This article addresses the significance of respect, honesty and confidence for effective leaders. The text presents evidence that leaders who lack these qualities are ineffective.

Source 3:

This article emphasizes the importance for leaders to influence the behaviors of their followers to achieve a common goal.

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Step 3:

Using your answers above, write a thesis statement that captures the essence of what your essay will set out to prove about your ideas using the sources.

Hint: Your thesis guides the argument for the entire essay. Write thesis statements that clearly state a defensible position on the subject. Be specific!

Thesis:

For one to become an effective leader, he/ she should be honest, confident and oriented towards a future.

Step 4:

Now, articulate the three major supporting details or points you will use to prove your thesis. Remember, each point needs to connect to at least one source but two is better to create a conversation. So, if there is nothing in one of the texts to support or extend your point, then come up with a different supporting detail.

Point 1: To be an effective leader, one must be very honest and communicate openly. Without it a leader cannot achieve success. Leaders succeed only when they stick to core believes and their values. Without ethics they cannot achieve success.

Point 2:

An effective leader should be confident enough to issue directives and ensure followers follow them. Oozing with confidence as a leader shows assertiveness and swagger to gain respect from your followers.

Point 3:

For a leader to achieve success, he/she must be future oriented. Such a leader must be able to anticipate what may happen in the future and plan adequately. Changing environment can prove to be very challenging to leaders who have not planned ahead.

Step 5: Use this table to record potentially useful quotes or examples from your selected sources. Organize them according to each major, supporting point from Step 4. Before incorporating them into your essay, make absolutely certain that all quotes are accurate (PROOFREAD!)

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Point #1:

Quote 1:

Effective leaders must underscore the purpose and importance of their work and motivate them with inspiring stories

Quote 1:

We believe that effective leaders are supportive, honest, confident, consistent, fair, respectful, and compassionate.

Quote #1:

Leaders have to make decisions that influence themselves, their teams, multi-billion dollar companies, and even the future of countries

Quote 2:

Conventional thinking holds that our effectiveness as leaders is primarily a function of what we have learned in the past—our knowledge, expertise, and experience

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Honesty and integrity are two important ingredients which make a good leader.

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Although classic leadership styles may predict team success, they fail to account for the changing climate in which decisions are made.

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Point #2:

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What makes the future compelling is the embodiment of our deepest convictions and ideals in our image of the future.

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To be an effective leader, you should be confident enough to ensure that other follow your commands.

Quote #1:

Due to their position of power with many responsibilities, leaders must constantly make important decisions that not only affect themselves but others too.

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Each of us has an implicit leadership theory, a mental model of what a good leader is and what exercising good leadership entails. 

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As a leader, you have to be oozing with confidence, show some swagger and assertiveness to gain the respect of your subordinates.

Quote #2:

Thus, leaders who can delegate effectively can benefit their team or organization by not only reducing their own work and stress, but also empowering subordinates or engaging individuals within an organization who have the skills necessary to complete a task better.

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Point 3:

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Conventional thinking holds that our effectiveness as leaders is primarily a function of what we have learned and achieved—our skills, knowledge, expertise, and experience

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As a leader, one’s commitment to the future must go beyond one’s individual agenda.

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While rational economic decision making sometimes has been interpreted as individuals making choices that are in their self-interest.

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No matter how daunting the circumstances we are confronting, if we can “see” an aspired future that is achievable, we are much more likely to be engaged and committed. 

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While our focus thus far has been on the future, this is not to imply that the past is irrelevant to leadership.

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Although classic leadership styles may predict team success, they fail to account for the changing climate in which decisions are made

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Introduction

Material

Human beings are fundamentally future oriented. Most of our decisions and undertakings are for the sake of a future to which we are committed or obligated. 

We are keen to gain insight into expectations of frontline staff from their leaders and any barriers to effective leadership. 

When making a decision that involves information acquisition, people can be defined along a spectrum of maximizing and satisficing decision making behavior.

Thesis

To enroll others in creating a better future, effective leaders must underscore the purpose and importance of their work and motivate them with inspiring stories.

We believe that effective leaders are supportive, honest, confident, consistent, fair, respectful, and compassionate.

Maximizing behavior is found to be unrelated to altruistic preferences, fairness preferences, and honest behavior.

Best Supporting

Detail

To be an effective leader, one must be very honest and communicate openly.

An effective leader should be confident enough to issue directives and ensure followers follow them.

For a leader to achieve success, he/she must be future oriented. Such a leader must be able to anticipate what may happen in the future and plan adequately.

Points You Agree with

Leaders could fail to achieve success if they fail to communicate openly.

Leaders must be confident, respectful and honest to achieve success.

Effective leaders must be able to influence the behaviors of their followers to achieve a common goal.

Points You Disagree with

Effective Leaders do not need past knowledge.

Poor communicators can make effective leaders

The ability of a leader to influence followers alone can help leaders achieve success.

Will you use this source?

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Title and Author of Text

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Big Idea: What is the message that the author is trying to create about real life?

The author is trying to argue that for once to succeed in life they need to be future oriented.

According to the author, One needs to have the highest level of honesty, confidence and respect to achieve life goals.

Text evidence to support author's message #1

This future orientation is essential to effective leadership in health care, especially during this time of significant reform, when people are at risk of becoming cynical and disengaged.

As a leader, you have to be oozing with confidence, show some swagger and assertiveness to gain the respect of your subordinates.

Text evidence to support author's message #2

Our story of the future becomes the “narrative frame” through which we see and tackle leadership challenges today. 

While our focus thus far has been on the future, this is not to imply that the past is irrelevant to leadership.

Text Evidence to support author's message #3

To live as a human being is to be oriented toward a future.

To be an effective leader, you should be confident enough to ensure that other follow your commands.

Source (In citation format)

Main Idea 1.

Main idea 2

Main idea 3

Souba & Souba, (2018).

Human beings are inherently future oriented.

Effective leaders must underscore the purpose and importance of their work and motivate them with inspiring stories

Conventional thinking holds that our effectiveness as leaders is primarily a function of what we have learned and achieved—our skills, knowledge, expertise, and experience

Mittal, (2019)

We believe that effective leaders are supportive, honest, confident, consistent, fair, respectful, and compassionate.

Honesty and integrity are two important ingredients which make a good leader.

While our focus thus far has been on the future, this is not to imply that the past is irrelevant to leadership.

Moskovitz, (2019). 

Leaders have to make decisions that influence themselves, their teams, multi-billion dollar companies, and even the future of countries

Although classic leadership styles may predict team success, they fail to account for the changing climate in which decisions are made.

While rational economic decision making sometimes has been interpreted as individuals making choices that are in their self-interest.

Your Thesis:

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Agrees/Disagrees? Quote to Prove?

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Agrees/Disagrees? Quote to Prove?

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Agrees/Disagrees? Quote to Prove?

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Your Supporting Idea #1

Agrees

“What makes the future compelling is the embodiment of our deepest convictions and ideals in our image of the future.”

Agrees

“Honesty and integrity are two important ingredients which make a good leader”.

Agrees

“Although classic leadership styles may predict team success, they fail to account for the changing climate in which decisions are made”.

Your Supporting Idea #2

Agrees

“Each of us has an implicit leadership theory, a mental model of what a good leader is and what exercising good leadership entails.” 

Agrees

“To be an effective leader, you should be confident enough to ensure that other follow your commands”.

Agrees

“Due to their position of power with many responsibilities, leaders must constantly make important decisions that not only affect themselves but others too.”

Your Supporting Idea #3

Agrees

“No matter how daunting the circumstances we are confronting, if we can “see” an aspired future that is achievable, we are much more likely to be engaged and committed.” 

Agrees

“While our focus thus far has been on the future, this is not to imply that the past is irrelevant to leadership”.

Agrees

“While rational economic decision making sometimes has been interpreted as individuals making choices that are in their self-interest”.