Effective Leadership Management: An Integration of Styles, Skills & Character for Today’s CEOs

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AuthorHouse, Oct 12, 2007 - Business & Economics - 236 pages

            Effective Leadership Management is about theory and practice of  integrating styles, skills and character of today's chief executive officers. It is about what a leader or a manager does to bring about staff efficiency and effectiveness. A leader or a manager is effective when he or she brings about the desired results for the organization by using different approaches to the development of personal and interpersonal effectiveness of the staff by daily decision making, staffing, planning, forecasting, nurturing, coaching, directing, organizing, marketing, encouraging and controlling quality.

            Effective Leadership Management emphasizes leadership as the intersection of character, knowledge, skill and desire. Management supervises tasks but leadership deals with  people who supervise tasks. In other words,  management is doing things right, while leadership is doing the right things.

            Effective Leadership Management styles  are achievable by using  mixtures of  different styles as situation  arises. Each leader has to  choose  style(s) that suits his or her personality and that best represents the values of the organization.  In all, a  leader has to be  transparent with all daily dealings,  communicates effectively, be honest with staff members, showing an unbending integrity, at the same time be knowledgeable or  skillful  about the tasks at hand, and be easy to follow. When an employee is encouraged, motivated and positively appraised, his or her performance will be enhanced.

            This book strongly emphasizes theory Z by Dr. Ouchi in which a management or leadership style  focuses on a strong company philosophy, a distinctive corporate culture, long-range staff development, and consensus decision making. When decisions and policies that relate to customers are being made by an organization, it is important to understand  that  others such as customers, community, staff, suppliers and stake holders opinions should be considered. This is called a holistic view approach to decision making.

            It is my hope that readers will find this book useful either as a church leader, school principal or university president, hospital or nursing home administrator,  nurse manager or departmental head,  company owners or CEO that  an effective and efficient  leader or manager cannot lead or manage alone by skills or knowledge, but with styles, character, personality, and by example.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Contents

Chapter One
3
LEADERSHIP AND STYLES
17
Chapter Three
33
Chapter Four
42
Chapter Five
60
Chapter Six
84
LEADERSHIP AND SKILLS
107
Chapter Eight
122
Chapter Ten
149
Chapter Eleven
157
Chapter Twelve
161
LEADERSHIP AND SERVING
171
Chapter Fourteen
184
References
199
Index
209
Copyright

Chapter Nine
137

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About the author (2007)

Dr. Michael Adewale Adeniyi, Ph.D. was born at Ode Lemo, Ogun State, Nigeria on September 08 1961 to Chief and Mrs. Balogun Samuel and Rachael Adeniyi. He attended Baptist Secondary Modern School, Igboho, Oyo State, Nigeria and graduated in 1978. The same year he became a personal secretary to Rev. Father James M. Sheerin of Ireland at the National Missionary Seminary Of St. Paul, (NSSP) Iperu Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He attended the Adventist Seminary of West Africa (ASWA) between 1981 and 1988. He became literature evangelist between 1984 and 1990 in Nigeria and in Sweden. He graduated with BA Religion/Business in June 1988 and with MA Curriculum & Instruction in Britain in June 1990. He got his AD Nusing in December 1995 and Ph.D. Educational Administration and Supervision in U.S.A. in May 2000. He is curently working on a licensure as a certified Nursing Home Administrator. Between 1995 and 2000, he worked as staff and charge nurse of various hospitals, nursing homes, and behavioral centers. He became the president and CEO of Wholistic Home Health Assisted Living and Adult Foster Care Inc. Niles, MI, in 1996. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southwestern Michigan College since 2003. He is an instructor of First Aid, CPR, and AED with American Red Cross from 2003 to present. He is an Elder and currently directing Health and Temperance and Coronary Health Improvement Project, (CHIP) of Seventh-Day Adventist Church, South Bend Chapter. He was awarded "The All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) Merit", February 2006. He is a member of the American Red Cross, Michigan Assisted Living Association, Michigan and Indiana Nurses Associations, American Higher Education and Leadership Association, and Michigan Long Term Care Partnership.

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