Effective Qualities of a Leader in The Wolf of Wall Street

This article discusses the effective qualities of a leader in The Wolf of Wall Street, including vision, communication, state management, clarity, courage, and certainty of work, and the importance of followers.

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Topic: Effective qualities of a leader in respect of “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Overview
In "The Wolf of Wall Street", the central character Jordan Belfort is an extremely
greedy man and he has a dream of becoming the millionaire. The charismatic leadership was
followed in that case. The leadership motivate their surroundings and make some changes in
business which are ruthless in every aspect but still the success will become at the end. The
achievement-oriented style is different in that case and extreme focus on the objective is
there. The path-goal leadership theory is discussed in this form of leadership for their
subordinates for the greater good for the company (Roulet, 2015). The appeal was made by
Belfort is a process of enhancing their employees quality and directed them in the way of
objective meeting. The character is drug abuse, alcoholic, sexism was there, but the energy
delivery to their employees as the dream of multi-millionaire at the age of twenty-six years
made him different from others. The greed of having a millionaire and make a promise to
achieve would change the mind set and that formulated through the movie.
Qualities of effective leaders
The qualities of charismatic leadership were present in the character, but there are five
more significant aspects needed to be mentioned that Jordan has. The vision of seeing the
world and relate success with that made him different in case of engaging employees for the
development of the business. The character has effective communication as well and being an
entrepreneur, a sense of gratitude towards the vision was portrayed by the director. The state
management was another great impact that was extracted through the movie. The control of
emotional biases was the key issue in that case and calm, optimistic behaviour will help to
control the resources. As mentioned by Mennell, (2014) the clarity, courage, and certainty of
work were there and that made the process easy in case of managing the organisation. Believe

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in break limit also smoothen the success and a leader need to know their limitations and the
possible break limit need to be set for own work process. Slow and steady build up and to
identify the opportunity in the business was measured in the case of Jordan. Employ an
effective strategy will help to set the standard of doing business. A leader needs to think
about the sustainable approach for business. At the initial time, Jordan thought of making
money is the key sustainability of success but the scenario changed after the business ideas of
involving massive people have done. As commented by Mahembe & Engelbrecht, (2014)
Provide values and monitoring those values in case of business sustainability is the key
approach in that case. Build a strong team and provide reward and recognition to those
employees is a perspective of the leader. Jordan knows that encouragement from the owners'
level will inspire and motivate employees and visualise them the same dream that Jordan saw
before the business progression. Creative team building and provide the fun and leisure to
maintain their work-life balance and encourage them with money and communicate with
them from the ground level help them to understand the intimacy of owner or manager with
their employees.
Thus charismatic leadership has the power to change employees’ directive and
motivate them in the new world of achievements and standards. This is an achievement-
oriented leadership style and that focused on maintaining the efficacy of people and their
approach of gaining advantage. Belfort encouraged their staffs and set challenges for
employees to overcome (Thomson & Van Niekerk, 2012). The skilled employees’ selection
was important in that case and Jordan has that loyal team to rely on. The personal
characteristics of vices are dominated by the success and the aspiration of having millionaire
changed the idea of organisation outstretch.
Importance of charismatic factor

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The execution of ideas are portrayed in this movie and that was come up from the
young, educated people should sound in the profession of stockbrokers over the phone. The
placing of ideas at the right time with the simplified viewed of mannerism was the key
approach that had shown in this process. The greed of having more money and showing them
the path of the directive to earn that money is the key approach that Jordan showed to the
team. The loyal team selection and made them ready for acquiring the success and motivate
them from the back was the key deliverance Jordan delivered in that case (Green, 2015). The
ideas are diversified and his personal depraved actions had not impacted on that case. Self-
esteem and charisma was the vital part of Jordan Belfort and through this idealized influence
to make positive steps helped the company rather the man become richest. The thought
process of leading and performing in a different manner helps to maintain the innovative
approach of leadership perspective.
In the movie, Jordan was under debt and the situation was not good for the business
building situation. The positive thoughts were blocked and mission became interrupt. The
strategic decision making approaches were coming hardly and that impacted on the
situational effectiveness of a leader, especially in case of Jordan. Through the approach of
believe in setting limit and state management system the situation was in under control for
Jordan. The last thing he needed, was to motivate and encourage employees for the
progressive situation. The vision was there at the same situation and Jordan built that with the
essence of team motivation and inject them the desire of become rich and that makes
difference is organisation and business.
Importance of followers
Leadership is the association that articulates formed by leaders and followers. If
followers are not implemented their efforts, then leaders will not able to see the profit. The

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high degree of teamwork and group motivation is there for the development of active play
role of constructing leadership relation. Followers' loyalty, working nature, skill and impact
in behavioural change are important in case of advancement of the business. Transcend self-
interest for doing the work in a collective manner and make emotional attachments with the
leader or the process is the key deliverable in case of idealising the values and goals.
Followers’ self-sacrifice is also there and they prioritise the emotional attachment with the
company that makes a good ground with organisation and leader. As stated by Weatherall,
(2013) Moral conviction development and assertiveness in employees will help the process
for followers to move at this directive to gain most of revenue accumulation. Employees'
sense of commitment comes as they see their leader. In the case of "The Wolf of Wall Street",
Jordan showed that commitment to be a millionaire, thus motivated employees have become
followers of the leader and they gain their objective in quick time.

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