Leadership Styles
Choose one well-known business leader (such as GE’s Jack
Welch, Chrysler’s Lee Lacocca, IBM’s Lou Gerstner, and so on.) to research on
the Internet. Identify three of their qualities, characteristics, or behaviors
that appeal to you personally. Justify why these characteristics make them good
leaders in terms of how they influence the effectiveness of the others in the
company and of the company as a whole. Identify which of these three character
traits is the most important to their success as a leader.
Choose another such quality that is commonly attributed to
your chosen business leader and explain why you believe it is less important
than the one you chose to be most important. (Please note that “of lesser
importance” doesn’t imply unimportance.)
