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Leadership and Culture

Luis Martinez

Keiser University

MBA 500 Advanced Essential Business Concepts

17 September 2016

In today's binary codes and nanotechnologies promises era, many people are not aware that we

are in a crisis and that the common man can not achieve goals that they promised. An American

citizen that was born in this great country can do it with a right education.
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Leadership and Culture

As I read this week assignments, it has open my eyes into a new aspect of the opinion of

other researchers that has shared their experience with many of the students that share Anybody's

Business book (Van Syckle & Tietje, 2010). My heart went out to the decent peers and friends

that they worked for the same company that I worked many years ego, and they were fired

together with me. At that point of my life, I did not wear all those tools that I’m wearing today.

Rationally, I could not understand what was happening that day.

My Own Company

Now I have my company; it is growing up at the same time with me. My eyes fill with

tears at this point, and I have to stop for a few minutes. The writers put effort into this lesson of

the three chapters in my view, when they expressed Roles, Mission, Strategy and Plan

Management on chapter 9. I have experiences under my belt, which allow me understood what

happen to my ex-peers and friends inside that old Hispanic company without a solid mission and

vision. There is not a better way to learn concepts than to put them into practice. The second

lesson, chapter 10 which I read this week, shared new aspect as Organizational Structure,

Culture, Employee Recruitment, Selection and Hiring, many tools now I have on my hands.

Good Husband

If you want to be a good husband, you should buy good tools that allow you to become a

lovely handyman. Ownership a business gives me some insight into every aspect of business

because I’m running a business, and I’m getting all the good or bad experiences. I can learn

while I’m running the business putting into practice the knowledge that I acquired. The chapter
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that followed the previous two, it took my breath away, and just one question jump into my

mind, what I have been doing with my life within the past 28 years? The last but not least,

chapter 11, full of Direct Control, Decision Making, Delegating, and Appraising. This lesson lets

me go through communication styles. Managing’s personalities that share inspirational stories of

real business, that still profitable at this day. How to use some flex in my communication style

that will fit my real company culture needs. This chapter included inspirational experience from

greats CEO's businesses and how they created their communication style within their businesses,

one of them talked about pounding the competition. In conclusion, I must have to be a good

husband to become a good leader; the family is the first organization business that I acquired in

life, at least in my case.

Good Learn Experience

To do an introduction of a well-learned experience, I decided to change my internal

compass as an engineer to become a leader/engineer. There is nothing that I can't explain about

all what I have learned in this week, every second worth it. As a leader, I will show and prove

what I can accomplished when a company achieves their goals and make a significant profit.

Modern days are here, and new leaders should produce new cultures to support new

revolutionary era. Develop aspects as my company mission statement, and provide it with short

and long terms plan. I building my organization on stable base culture full of values where the

top leaders and followers can converge at the same philosophy.

Mission Statement and Smart Goals

It's imperative to write down my company goals because that keeps me on focus and

track. If I build a stable business structure with a solid based on moral, principles, ethic, excellent
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communication and strategies in concordance with our priorities, then I will be able to face my

company challenges and goals.

I'm still building a television and film Production Company with the base here in Miami,

where I lived for the last 25 years. The assets of my company are rising every day, step by step.

My long-term goal included brings my family to work inside, and provide job opportunities to

others. Obviously, my short-term goal will be to graduate as a Master of Business

Administration; it mean for me a new beginning, a new door with my pockets full of tools.

Time Management Matrix

Being a leader requires such skills as being organized and efficient and effective with

time. Being a part of a virtual team will teach me how to share my organization and time

management skills with other team members and learn new skills on how to improve to myself

as well. The Urgent Important Matrix is a powerful productivity and time management tool to

help people manage their time more efficiently. It's ideal for a broad spectrum of coaching from

career, executive and business coaching to life and even spiritual coaching. The essence of the

simple but powerful Urgent Important Matrix is consciously given priority to our most important

tasks and to plan and delegate so that we deal with problems before they become urgent crises

and become aware of our interruptions and distractions so that we can reduce or eliminate them.

It empowers people to manage their limited time resources so that they get their priority tasks

done in more enjoyable and less stressful way.

The Organizational Cultures

Much is said about culture, and I begin to realize that a lot of mergers and acquisitions

failed for cultural reasons while on paper, it promised the greatest success. The culture is what

makes each business unique. Two companies can follow the same strategy, have the same
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structures, use the same management techniques, however, have their culture and that is what

may be the cause of success and a failure of one of them.

How much time I need to get into any company and find out, what type of culture exist in

that place? About 10 minutes? Sometimes take less than 10 seconds. It's pure intuition as happen

in the same way when you are visiting a friend, and some time after you being talking with him

and family members, I feel an energy which it’s communicating with my soul. That energy it's

telling me, that they didn't do very well. Every single human being can feel and perceive the

places and peoples energy. When I’m sad, worry, unsatisfied or happy, the energy that emanates

from my body surrounds me, and it cannot be hidden. For instance, if I walked into the good

culture consistency company, I will feel the positive energy from the first second and it's

traduced as a good culture result.

Whether I realize it or not, my company should have a culture based on my core values

initially. So I did design the culture with passion and purpose, and I have to be sure of my

company culture consistency stay forever. I have to be careful don’t be so close to the trees

because if it happens, I don't go to be able to see the forest. I learn that if I can’t describe my

company culture immediately, I have to take a look at few areas that'll help me identify my

company's culture and make positive changes for the better. Some organizations are compared to

Icebergs because they show the cute face of the picture of a false culture ambient, but the big

fallacy is under water, and you can't see it. I call that double moral, hypocrisy and double

dealing.

Description Job and Specifications

Job descriptions are a vital part of hiring and managing your employees. These written

summaries ensure my applicants and employees understand their roles and what they need to do
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to be held accountable. I did the assignment Description with specifications trying to find a

candidate to fit a Teacher Assistant position for a college student. Many aspects of developing

were part of the project, like location, description, summary, tasks and specifications. A job

description should be practical, clear and accurate to define a company needs efficiently. When I

did this assignment took me like 2 hours because the detail of the information I should provide in

the job advertisement was very detailed.

Personality Style and Communication Style

This assignment included my neighbor as an employee of my company; his character brings him

inside of the People-Pleaser group. I described many of the characteristics that I can see on my

neighbor. Also, I have written about my personality aspects, which it put me within Director

Style group. Taking into consideration the characteristics of my neighbor group and my style

group, which it’s certainly brought a communications problems with him. As a last aspect of this

project, finally, the flexing concept tool show up, letting me resolves the communication issue

with Jovaci, my neighbor.

Benefits of Performance Appraisal

As an employee, if I worked well, as an employee naturally I want to be praised and

recognized by my boss and fellow workers. Praise seems to have its greatest value when given

and received as recognition, and is not perceived by either party as an attempt to control the

behavior of the recipient, but my perception goes deeper than that after I read Chapter 11 (Van

Syckle & Tietje, 2010). The appraisal process included a manager clear picture of what effective

performance looks like; then the organization will be ready to appraise employees accurately.
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Never I have been involved in my appraisal process; it takes some time. I contemplate

many personal aspects then I started written some of my skills and areas where to suppose I

should be very productive and related to my current studies.

There are some potential benefits of organizational performance management conducting

formal performance appraisals. I believe that today’s highly competitive workplace individuals

seek status and are anxious to excel at what they do and to achieve their personal aspirations and

dreams. This personal appraisal that I did to myself was an experience that I did before but never

into this kind of confidential situation with my self-conscience. Finally, I finished my appraisal,

and I felt like when I was young, then I was doing something wrong, and my father confronted

me. He asked me, tell me, what you was doing that were wrong and how we can prevent it to do

not happen again in the future, my father is a math teacher, he still teaching at this moment. My

father taught me how to make an appraisal of myself and how to correct my mistakes. What

happened many years ago interacting with an educational form that my father used to teach me

how to evaluate myself and find a solution, it is part of my values today as an individual.

The recognition satisfies the basic human need for self-esteem and self-worth. This

recognition may be a simple pat on the back of the employee or a recommendation for a pay

raise, promotion or assignment of more interesting tasks. Awards may be given in the form of

articles, banquets honoring certain individuals, certificates, and plaques, too, may be given, or

the employee's name may be entered on the Honours Board. Where teamwork is critical, mutual

recognition may be given by the award of a shield or a banner or a certificate, special privileges

or a money bonus to the group of employees. There is many way or tools that we can use

effectively to stimulate the effective performance of managers and employees and that process

its part of a company culture.

Conclusion

To conclude, an organizational culture begins at the top and ends at the top. When I want

changes to be made, I will have to be the one to get the ball rolling as a leader. A healthy

company culture is one in which the following process exists. As a business owner I have to take

decisions, then delegates responsibility for that decision and watches to see how well it's carried

out. If it's not working well, I will revise my plan, and try something new. A dysfunctional

leader, on the other hand, will defend the decision to the death just because he or she made that

decision and that's the rule! Write down my company goals was very helpful because it keeps me

in focus and on track show me how to organize my business priorities. In the end, it is quite clear

that the individual who holds the power and makes the final decisions determines the success or

failure of the institution and those who work for it.

Culture is a carrier of meaning. Cultures provide not only a shared view of "what is" but

also of "why is." In this view, culture is about "the story" in which people in the organization are

embedded, and the values and rituals that reinforce that narrative. It also focuses attention on the

importance of symbols and the need to understand them — including the idiosyncratic languages

used in organizations — to understand the culture (Watkins & Perrin, 2013).

The reality is that leaders who respect and value those who work under them help create a

nurturing environment and culture for success, while bad leaders who make bad decisions

negatively affect the employees and the organization. These are the crucial lessons that students

must learn and this beautiful world could be a different place. Thanks, Doctor Ritter per teach

and share your great experience and knowledge with us.

References

Watkins, M. D., & Perrin, R. (2013, May 15). What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should

We Care? From Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-

organizational-culture

Van Syckle, B., & Tietje, B. (2010). Anybody's Business. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson

Prentice Hall.