Assignment

DEVELOPING STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP SKILL

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INTRODUCTION

Leadership and management skills and styles have been the most debatable topic in recent history. Many people have devised new theories about leadership styles and skills. There are many books written on this topic but none of them has reached to a common style. The styles depend on the situation present at that time. So for a good leader/manager it is important to exhibit different styles for different situation. Strategic Management is also an important component of any organization. So after defining a strategy for an organization, the leader/manager should take steps to ensure that the overall working of the organization is going according to the strategy. A good leader/manager should be able to cope with the future needs of the organizations and should keep in mind the impact of certain strategies on organizations in long term.

LEADERSHIP PATTERNS

1. IBM : IBM is a global technology and innovation company that stands for progress. With operations in over 170 countries, around the world invent and integrate hardware, software and services to help forward-thinking enterprises, institutions and people everywhere succeed in building a smarter planet. in 1980s, when personal computers and servers supplanted those mainframes, and an arrogant and bloated IBM was caught flat-footed. The board brought in Lou Gerstner, who famously stabilized the company and got it to grow again by steering IBM into the unsexy -- but high-margin -- business of systems integration and services. Under the leadership of Gerstner, IBM made a remarkable comeback and proved its critics wrong. In doing so, IBM seemed to have made...