Strategic Leadership and Stakeholder Management

Strategic Leadership and Stakeholder
Management

Table of Content
Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Essential Characteristics of a good leader................................................................................................................3
Analysis of Leadership strength and weakness.....................................................................................................4
Big 5 Personality Test...................................................................................................................................................4
MBTI Test................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Plan to develop my Leadership Skills.........................................................................................................................9
Table of WWWWH...................................................................................................................................................... 10
Conclusion........................................................................................................................................................................... 11
References........................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Introduction
Leadership has been in existence since the existence of human race, leaders have
emerged from various races, colour, origins and rose to the occasion to become
exemplary leaders (Tannenbaum & Schmidt, 2017). Leadership can be understood as
both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual to
lead, influence, encourage and motivate the organization or individual to achieve the
personal as well the goals of the organization (Bolman & Deal, 2017). Thus, a leader is a
person who does not walk alone; on the contrary he elevates the performance of the
people working with him by setting aside a clear vision and leading from the front.
Eminent names such as Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Warrant Buffet, Steve Jobs,
Jack Welch and Jeff Bezos are some of the greatest leaders of their times who have
changed the world for the good (Northouse, 2018).
Leadership historically has been spoken of something which comes naturally to a
human, but in the present era leadership can both be learnt and mastered. Considering
the above introduction as the preamble of the assignment, the report here will discuss
in length on the qualities essential to become a leader, the skills required to become a
good leader and critical analysis and reflection of one’s own strength and weakness in
context to leadership.
Essential Characteristics of a good leader
Ever since the dot com bubble in the year 1991, and rise of giants such as Amazon and
Google I have always been interested into the internet industry or the e-commerce. I
have carefully researched and identified certain characteristics which are essential for
the leaders in the internet industry. Some of the leadership qualities are:
Strong Communication Skills
This is the prerequisite of any leader working in any industry, however it becomes
extremely important in the internet industry as the young/ millennial population
dominates the force here. Thus, the leader by virtue of his strong interpersonal skills

has to bind the entire team together and make them achieve strong results for
themselves and the organization (Fairhurst & Connaughton, 2014).
Creativity and Innovation
Amazon would have been just an online book seller, if Jeff Bezos would have not have
been a creative and innovative leader and pushed him team to imbibe the same quality
in them, thus, another very important characteristic of a leader (Antonakis & Day,
2017).
Visionary
A leader working in the Internet industry has to be most definitely visionary in his
approach towards his business, and also to spot the trends before anybody else can.
Being visionary helps in having a clear vision for the future which further helps in
driving and laying a clear vision for the employees working in the organization
(Tourish, 2014). It is the vision of Jeff Bezos which has made Amazon as the most
customer centric company on planet earth and most definitely an organization which
gave birth to hundreds and thousands of company working in either the same or slightly
differentiated space (DuBrin, 2015).
Analysis of Leadership strength and weakness
In order to identify my leadership strength and weakness, I took a couple of test which
helped me not only to become self-aware, but it also helped me in understanding what
are the strengths which I can leverage and the weakness which I can minimize to
become an effective leader. In order to do so, I took a couple of self-assessment to
become more and more self- aware.
Big 5 Personality Test
Big 5 Personality test is one of the self- assessment tests which determines the five
factors of personality for a person, basis of which the personality of a person is defined.
My assessment goes on as: