Individual Presentation Paper: Leadership Styles - Suffolk University

This individual presentation paper provides an overview of leadership, emphasizing its importance in today's global business environment. It highlights how effective leadership, particularly adaptive and innovative approaches, is crucial for business success. The paper focuses on Mark Zuckerberg as an example of a leader employing transformational leadership to manage Facebook effectively. Transformational leadership is presented as essential for adapting to changes and maintaining competitiveness. The paper concludes that proper leadership style selection is vital for achieving business success and gaining a competitive advantage. References to various academic sources are included to support the arguments presented.

INDIVIDUAL
PRESENTATION
PAPER

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Good leadership is the only key for the success of any of
the business in this highly competitive and global
market.
 This is majorly because of the reason that when the
business operates at global level then in that case the
leadership need to be very adaptive and innovative.
 This is particularly because of the fact that if the leader
will not be good then they will not encourage the
employees to take and adapt to the latest changes taking
place in global business environment.

LEADERSHIP
 The leadership is necessary for the business as
this is referred to as the directing the
employees to work in the direction of the
attainment of goals of the business.
 This is majorly because of the reason that the
leader is the person who is responsible for the
formulation of the policies and strategies for
the attainment of the goals of the business.

MARK ZUCKERBERG
 In light of this the leader Mark Zuckerberg who
is the American business magnate is the co-
founder of the Facebook and was born on 14
may 1984.
 He is a very good leader and has managed the
working and profitability of Facebook in very
good and effective manner.
 Thus, the major leadership style being used by
Mark in managing the business and the
employees was the transformational leadership.

CONTINUED
 The transformational leadership is very essential for
the proper management and maintenance of the
business as of the business will not adapt to the
changes then the business will lack behind in the
competition.
 Thus, for the Mark makes use of the transformational
leadership style as this assist Mark in making the use
of leadership in order to adapt to the changes in
positive and effective manner.

CONTINUED
 This is majorly because of the fact that when the leadership will not be good then the working
of the company will not be effective and company will not be able to manage the business in
proper and effective manner.
 Hence in the end it can be said that for the business organization to be successful the most
essential thing is the proper use of the leadership style and if this will be good then the
company will surely attain success.
 Thus, the proper selection of the leadership style will make sure that the company attains the
success and this will help the company in gaining a competitive advantage.

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