Business and Marketing: Leadership Assessment

Leadership Assessment
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LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT
Every senior executive officer ought to have good and competent leadership skills to ensure smooth running of the company. Most senior officers have been successful in their companies and organization through their conduct and tactics of addressing situation in the line of duty. The measure that each executive officer takes determines the level of success for their businesses as well as the efficiency lost or earned. Some leaders have been termed successful in their application effective leadership styles, which has made their efforts worthwhile (Ferguson, 2004). For instance, Ivan Seidenberg, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Verizon, put a great impact on numerous people who worked with him in the company. Moreover, he has made a tremendous record as a Chief Executive Officer in the company and was credited for great achievement during his time in leadership.
Currently, Ivan Seidenberg bears a net worth of fifty five million dollars, as an American businessperson. He earned this net worth in his service as a former CEO and Chairman of Verizon communication. Moreover, Seidenberg made a good name for himself while at the company which enhanced his relationship with the employees and other managers. His strategies of running business were unique as there was no comparison possible between him and other senior officers in the former companies that most of us had worked for. Seidenberg is an individual with a very strong and influential personality, knows that perfectly, and utilizes it in his favor. He is became a threat to other investors and businesspersons because of his charm to politicians as well as the union workers (Stevens, 2008). The business associates considered him a risk-taker because he launched business drives and deals that were daring to investments. For instance, numerous companies were gun-shy due to the telecom crash, and so Seidenberg decided to launch a multibillion-dollar drive that would offer the internet of highest speed to numerous areas in the nation. This was very inspiring to numerous companies that were shying away from the similar approach.
He also had incredible mental creativity, agility as well as drive. Seidenberg acted as a symbol of inspiration to numerous employees in the Verizon, as he had the capability of seeing the altering landscape from various viewpoints. Being a focused man, Seidenberg has also achieved success because he was a diplomatic operator who performed his duties behind the scenes. In addition, he does not personalize issues or play games with the employees, showing them the necessity of working as a team and in mutual understanding. Seidenberg also bears a character that is rare to find in many leaders. While in the company, he was tremendously persuasive. The employees found him as the favorite of all in the presentation of any grievances that they had. This enabled him to have a social bearing and trust in the company, leading to the employee’s motivation to work effectively in the faith that someone was always on the watch of their well-being. He was also known to be perfect in venturing and implementing new working strategies that were threatening at the beginning, but later bore fruits.
Every individual would surely aspire to be so creative and risk taking as this record breaker. His hard work and motivation has driven many employees to be just like him. His strategies of transforming the company did not only influence the employees but the entire nation and world. As he joined one of the Verizon’s predecessor companies, he was simple yet packed with ideas and when the chance for him to unleash them came, he did that gladly by bringing a fast transformation up on the company. In addition, he transformed Verizon into a company that is premier in global networking, by putting up a wireless network in all areas of the nation, deploying the fiber broad bands of high speed right into the homes of the residents, as well as enhancing the global internet of Verizon to be the backbone network all over the world. These achievements left the company at a very high rate that was inaccessible to other competitors. The good relationship and approachable nature of Seidenberg as well as the fact that he met their opinions and grievances made the most productive and qualified employees to remain in the company. The working conditions and terms were favorable and thus he knew that this would help increase the performances of the employees. Moreover, he treated and served all the employees equally as well as encouraged multiculturalism on the performance of job. This made him more lovable as he did not have any character of a biased leader, unlike in numerous other companies where employment would be hard to find incase there is difference in race, ethnicity, among others.
The organizational structure and culture determines the effectiveness of the work performed in any company. For efficiency in teamwork and productivity, our company practices matrix structure. This is because Matrix kind of structure tends to involve all the employees in participation of teamwork. This is an incredible practice in enhancing good relationship amongst the employees as well as their leaders. This has increased the productivity of the company because the competent employees who work together are maintained through good relations. In addition, this has contributed towards the company’s success through the application of some efficient guidelines like identifying the goals of the company. This assists in development of a workforce that would met the needs of the company.
The matrix structure helps to develop the effectiveness in the work force in such a great deal, as it combines teams of employees in accomplishment of a certain work. This is done so that the strengths of all the individuals in the team, and stand for the weaknesses containing decentralized and functional form. The matrix form is said to be one of the purest structure of the organizations as it bears a simple pattern that emulate order as well as containing regular demonstrations in nature. Our company also focuses on developing a workforce through consideration of the scope of the t...