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This is the first 1,000 characters of 821 words (3.28 pages) in the essay titled leadership2 We live in an era of economic challenges. It is an age of increasingly scarce resources and world markets. Enterprises face increasingly fierce competition not only from down the street but from enterprises halfway around the world that have access to cheaper labour, less expensive materials, or better technology.In the 1950’s and 1960’s, Americans made about one-quarter of all the manufactured goods in the world market (Stokes, pp. 5-6). Then the American’s competitive edge started to slip. Foreign producers, now challenge entire product areas that used to be dominated by American Industry. Their trade and domestics deficits are now enormous (Stokes, pp.24-26). To solve this problem, to improve and restore the competitive edge of small business client base, I recommend teaching leadership as well as management. We need to move beyond the simplistic and boring, everyday management skills commonly taught in core courses in business schools. Important as these skills are, we need to redirect our focus towards the essential ingredient required to put these skills to work – leadership. As Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus have expressed it, “The problem with many organizations…is that they tend to be overmanaged and underled. There is a profound difference between management and leadership, and both are important.” “To manage” means “to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge or responsibility for, to conduct.” “Leading” is “influencing, guiding in direction, course, action... |
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