Compose a 1500 words essay on 'Letter From the Future: my personal and leadership vision'. Needs to be plagiarism free!Download file to see previous pages... As a leader, I have come a long way since

Compose a 1500 words essay on 'Letter From the Future: my personal and leadership vision'. Needs to be plagiarism free!

As a leader, I have come a long way since the start of my career. Although I had learnt a lot of things about leadership and the skills required of a leader in the books upfront as “[t]he organization and management literatures are full of discussions about the best ways to organize to carry out various tasks” (Alvord, Brown, and Letts, n.d., p. 148), yet one only comes to understand everything in detail with experience as one gets an opportunity to be in the tough situations, and thus play one’s role as a leader. One does not need to go to very expensive colleges and universities to learn how to become a good leader as there are plentiful examples of leaders like Steve Jobs who have done a phenomenal job without seeking proper education in the past (Stanford University, 2005). I learnt a lot of things in detail as I experienced them as a leader over the years that I was just introduced to in the books as a student. In this letter, I am going to share some of the most fundamental essentials of leadership that I have mastered with time. As a leader, you have to be the captain of the ship. So it is very important for you to know which path you have to guide my crew toward. This necessitates you to do the homework required for any kind of task at hand so that a variety of options are revived in your mind and you may be able to choose the one that is the most convenient for your crew and you as well as leads to a result that is of value to the stakeholders. As a leader, you have to be proactive. People look forward to you in the time of crisis and expect you to lead them to peace through the times of conflict. As a human being, everybody has limitations and so do leaders. In order to optimize on your potential to deliver your best, it the advisable for you to assess the risks involved in a certain process beforehand so that you can take the steps required to fix things in advance. One factor that has increased as a barrier to successful leadership over these 20 years is diversity. 20 years back, leadership was easy in that the interests and concerns of the followers in an organization were similar to a very large extent than they are in the organizations today. In 2012, except for few, most companies had a centralized organizational structure. Leadership used to be easy because one company had one set of rules and regulations, principles, culture, and the work setup as a whole. Over the last 20 years, there has occurred a revolutionary change in the way businesses are done and a vast majority of companies have become multinational and the distinct branches of the same company work in a decentralized fashion. That the organizational structure has shifted from centralized to decentralized in most of the cases over the last two decades. As a result of this, the different branches of the same company have started to compete with one another as if they are different companies and do not belong to the same parent organization. Separate systems, laws and regulations, and principles are enforced in different branches of the same company. Since such organizations have mushroomed over the last 20 years, I have frequently been part of them and have served in the leadership position in many such organizations. It was very difficult for me to maintain one style of leadership as I was made the branch manager of different branches operating in different countries.