After you explored the tenet of conscious leadership and the influence of self-awareness on your leadership style. You established that a clear understanding of your abilities, motivation, and goals provides a firm foundation for leading others. Leadership studies demonstrate that the most effective leaders know how to draw upon self-leadership skills to in turn motivate and lead others to expand their strengths to ultimately better serve the goals of an organization. For this assignment, you will continue to study conscious leadership and look at a leadership example from contemporary media and evaluate how well the particular leader exemplifies the qualities of effective and ethical conscious leadership. Then, you will compose your
own leadership philosophy statement to articulate the qualities that will make you an effective conscious leader of people and organizations.
Part 1:
For Part 1, select a relevant and topical leadership issue from current news media that revolves around ethics and ethical decision making. Topics
must be approved by your instructor. Once approved, research the situation and gather data in order to evaluate the dynamics of the situation. Write
an evaluation (275- 300 words) of the situation that addresses the following:
The power bases used by the leader.
The influence tactics used by the leader.
The leadership style of the leader.
The outcome (or potential outcome) of the situation.
Conclude by justifying whether or not you think this leader supports the values of conscious capitalism. Is the leader's leadership style effective? Do
you believe the leader acted ethically in the situation? Be sure to consider each tenet of conscious capitalism in your leader evaluation.
Next, imagine yourself as a practitioner of servant leadership. You have been appointed into the leadership role in this same circumstance. Explain
how the situation would be different. Address the four criteria listed above in your discussion and incorporate the principles of conscious capitalism by
explaining how your personal values and style are influenced by each tenet.
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