Assignment
Select a leader in business, sports, management, or government and plan a short 20-minute interview. The interview may be over the phone or in person.
Suggested interview questions:
-What can be learned by failing?
-You seem pretty confident and successful. Have you ever exposed your team to the idea of failure to prepare them for consequences if the wrong choices are made?
-What can be learned by failing?
-In what ways does failure affect success?
- What do you think is the value of failure?
- How can having a failure change the way you make decisions or do business in the future? How?
Some leaders seem to always make the right decisions and therefore experience a lot of success. How can too much success interfere with creativity?
What if we could design a controlled failure system for work that could tap creativity without causing fear or stress?
Write a five to seven page paper in which you:
1. Propose two ways that you can use a failure in your life or career to improve your vision as a leader.
2. Examine the key traits and characteristics that transformational leaders possess. Predict the impact that a transformational leader's response to a failure would have on performance and behavior in his or her employees. Provide a rationale for your response.
3. Determine whether or not you believe that failure is an integral part of life that contributes to leadership effectiveness. Provide two examples to support your response.
4. Create a list of five best practices for leaders to follow in order to be effective after a failure in the workplace. Support each practice with examples from your interview.
5. Determine the manner in which experiences with failure and leadership affect the risk taking and decision making behaviors of an individual on a leadership track. Provide a rationale for your response.
6. Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Write clearly and concisely about leadership strategies using proper writing mechanics.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in leadership strategies.