Question 1
1. I think the “fires” of the statement refers to certain sudden imminent issues these professionals have had to address throughout their careers. These issues have been “career-defining” because they have perhaps been not only sudden, but perhaps entirely unexpected, and have therefore served as learning experiences for the professionals, because they have had to make quick, but crucial, decisions in order to “put the fires out”, so to speak.
2. I believe that the statement “secrets of leadership are found at the bottom” means that leadership is not something that develops once one becomes a manager or achieves any other similar leader-role, or in other words, once one reaches “the top”. Instead, it is something that individuals start shaping at the beginning of their careers, at that internship, part-time, or entry-level job where the hours are awful, pay is subpar, the supervisor is mean, and there’s fifteen other people working there with the same dream. In other words, leadership begins its development at “the bottom”.
3. The key to my strategy to earn desired positions is emphasizing my differences from my rivals. In the US, I am an immigrant from a somewhat strange environment, who has dabbled in multiple different industries. In Sweden, I am someone who left everything, and everyone, behind to undergo the challenge of living and …show more content…
The term organizational culture refers a system of values, beliefs, and assumptions that the whole organization share, and which basically serve as governing guidelines for how people within the organization should behave. Generally, an organizational culture can be described as the philosophies, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and practices that define an organization. Organizational culture is important because a healthy culture can help attract, and retain valuable employees, make employees more engaged in their work, promote synergy amongst employees, and also give employees a sense of direction in terms of
1. I think the “fires” of the statement refers to certain sudden imminent issues these professionals have had to address throughout their careers. These issues have been “career-defining” because they have perhaps been not only sudden, but perhaps entirely unexpected, and have therefore served as learning experiences for the professionals, because they have had to make quick, but crucial, decisions in order to “put the fires out”, so to speak.
2. I believe that the statement “secrets of leadership are found at the bottom” means that leadership is not something that develops once one becomes a manager or achieves any other similar leader-role, or in other words, once one reaches “the top”. Instead, it is something that individuals start shaping at the beginning of their careers, at that internship, part-time, or entry-level job where the hours are awful, pay is subpar, the supervisor is mean, and there’s fifteen other people working there with the same dream. In other words, leadership begins its development at “the bottom”.
3. The key to my strategy to earn desired positions is emphasizing my differences from my rivals. In the US, I am an immigrant from a somewhat strange environment, who has dabbled in multiple different industries. In Sweden, I am someone who left everything, and everyone, behind to undergo the challenge of living and …show more content…
The term organizational culture refers a system of values, beliefs, and assumptions that the whole organization share, and which basically serve as governing guidelines for how people within the organization should behave. Generally, an organizational culture can be described as the philosophies, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and practices that define an organization. Organizational culture is important because a healthy culture can help attract, and retain valuable employees, make employees more engaged in their work, promote synergy amongst employees, and also give employees a sense of direction in terms of