Winston Churchill one of the greatest and successful leaders of the 20th century he became an effective leader through his determination, perseverance, and his compelling ability to inspire people. Observing Winston Churchill’s leadership traits, and his behavior my analysis concludes and reveals that Winston Churchill was a transformational, charismatic and adaptive leader. Through my research I will provide evidence of Winston’s leadership traits and performances through the experiences of his lifetime. Transformational leadership is a process that changes and transforms people. It is concerned with emotion, values, ethics, standards, and long term goals. It includes evaluating supporters’ motives, filling their needs, and treating them
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It was the start of World War II that Winston Churchill would be chosen the First Lord of the Admiralty in the Royal Navy but ran into a disturbing incident in the Dardanelles campaign where several naval operations took place but his choices would cost him his position and would haunt him for many years. Following that Winston Churchill would resign but with his willpower to succeed he joined the army and went back into politics. Churchill would later accept the role as First Lord of the Admiralty again when the war broke out but when Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister, Churchill took over. Churchill refused to recognize Nazi Germany and this motivated his country. He gained the nation’s trust with triumphs with the battles of Britain and Italy. The traits that made Winston Churchill such an effective leader was his eagerness, confidence, forcefulness, sense of humor, and his dependability. His vision, ambition, charisma, teamwork, reassurance, and inspiration these qualities made Winston a greater leader. Winston sustained these abilities …show more content…
Churchill used adaptive leadership through inspiring his nation to keep pushing and fighting, although they had already been considered a loss. Not only did he have to stave off an imminent enemy invasion but he had to move the peacetime economy to one that could support a war. This meant focusing slender resources on the immediate threat, unifying a disparate economy, and directing its output into immediate military use. Within a very short time, Churchill had to transform his organization to the modern-day equivalent of an Adaptive Enterprise so that it could adapt to this unexpected situation. He did this using the emerging technologies of the day, and of course he had to get it right the first time and make the investments count. (Kozak-Holland,
It was the start of World War II that Winston Churchill would be chosen the First Lord of the Admiralty in the Royal Navy but ran into a disturbing incident in the Dardanelles campaign where several naval operations took place but his choices would cost him his position and would haunt him for many years. Following that Winston Churchill would resign but with his willpower to succeed he joined the army and went back into politics. Churchill would later accept the role as First Lord of the Admiralty again when the war broke out but when Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister, Churchill took over. Churchill refused to recognize Nazi Germany and this motivated his country. He gained the nation’s trust with triumphs with the battles of Britain and Italy. The traits that made Winston Churchill such an effective leader was his eagerness, confidence, forcefulness, sense of humor, and his dependability. His vision, ambition, charisma, teamwork, reassurance, and inspiration these qualities made Winston a greater leader. Winston sustained these abilities …show more content…
Churchill used adaptive leadership through inspiring his nation to keep pushing and fighting, although they had already been considered a loss. Not only did he have to stave off an imminent enemy invasion but he had to move the peacetime economy to one that could support a war. This meant focusing slender resources on the immediate threat, unifying a disparate economy, and directing its output into immediate military use. Within a very short time, Churchill had to transform his organization to the modern-day equivalent of an Adaptive Enterprise so that it could adapt to this unexpected situation. He did this using the emerging technologies of the day, and of course he had to get it right the first time and make the investments count. (Kozak-Holland,