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Top 10 Qualities of Great Leadership


How leader is doing is big different from what manager is doing. Leader is leading while manager is following. Leader is doing the right thing while manager doing the thing right. Leader prefers the blure color while manager and simple people prefer clear white, red or black color. What are such qualities to be a great leader in business and all positions? We have ten traits of greater’s norm:
CEO or leader share values and attitudes whereas managers and boss share only skills and knowledge. Find out those intrinsic values with us now.
a).  Leaders Works with Blurness: Very often people want a clear cut decisions, great leaders would like to see a combination of gray shadow. Successful leaders are able to handle apparent contradictions in tension. They use these paradoxes to come up with innovative ideas.
b).   Leaders Like Blank Sheets of Paper: Managers and simple boss use given policies and procedures to guide them to make a proper decision. They prefer a clear instruction so that they could do and succeed it on time. In contrast, great leaders create a white paper so that managers can pen on it with any color. Every leader wants something from scratch so that they can have such unique, innovative idea.
c).   Leaders love people around them but need a challenging one: Unlike boss who only prefer the staffs that like to listen to them, leaders would love to see challenges from people around them, and this means leader would like to hire the most challenging people. They don’t if today’s challenger might be tomorrow’s rival. Challengers give leader new idea always.
d).   Leaders Prefer Choices: Diversity is the best and only options for great leaders. Diversity springs unique thinking. A team of ten’s head is much better and a team of hundred people but one dominant brain.
e).   Leaders like to see the facts: Although it’s good or bad, successful leader are always welcome it. They wanted to know how they have gone; what’s wrong with their policies; where and how to fix it etc. The real facts can answer lots of question that have been asked long ago. The facts share big pie of the doubts.
f).   Leaders Tie Their Necks Out: Leaders are always at the front. If something went wrong, they will come forward and be responsible for it. They do not blame other, neither the material. Best leaders will say from their heart that it’s their fault and they would like to fix it. They will not run away from the troubles.
g).   Leaders is Themselves.  Whereas successful leader seeks for opinions from their fellow guys, they are profoundly believe in themselves. They are confident in their power of making decision. They are themselves. After all, it’s leader that makes this final decision and it’s them.
h).   Leaders are Criticalist. Boss’s role is to get things done. Manager’s role is to get thing done right and look if it follows from what leader has set out. Great leaders are different in many senses. They don’t know how to get things done right but they know they are doing the right thing. They are not specialist like Boss or Manager but they are very visionary and very curious about new thing. They like to invent new and unique stuffs. In their head, they only think about something that has never done before.
i).   Leaders are Honest with Themselves: Self-ideified is the most vital for leaders. Leaders know for sure who they really are. They love and trust themselves more than anybody else. They encourage themselves; they inspired and they give opportunity themselves to restart everything.
j). Leaders are Lovingkindness persons. The very last and most important trait for all great and successful leader is being a lovingkindess person ever. Having a sympathy mind and compassionated love towards other people regardless skin color, races, background, and status allow great leader to stay closer to people and get everything learn very quick. It also allows him or her to communicate with surounding environment very smoothly. Very powerful as have said by John Maxwell, lovingkindness will help everything work smoothly and that co-workers are working not because they are forced to do it but because they are proud to do it.

Best CEO and Company to Survive from Zero

Being so successful and a giant global corporate, IBM is seen by many people as a good destination to work for, to settle in, or a dreaming company. It is true that IBM is a healthy growing company and counting one among global corporates and most successful computer manufacturing industry in the world. However, this is not the only truth; each company shares the same experience of sweet and bitterness because recession and recovery have often happened to all companies, no matter a small one or the biggest industry.

Usually, what is going on behind the scene is rarely revealed to the public. Without critical thinking and information gathering, it is quite difficult to know which company used to be in the situation ‘near-death’ or at its fortune. Even it is hard to watch what many companies are going through today’s globalized world. Automakers, the news media, entertainment industry businesses, banks and other financial institutions–they and others are being seriously challenged by market forces, technology shifts and the changing dynamics of a global economy. In fact, some of them are fighting for their very survival. At IBM Company it experienced what that is like. IBM has been there.

Therefore, because IBM has been there in the crisis and able to get out from the severed trap this paper is aiming to uncover this experiential history, particularly both IBM’s happiness and sadness, and intending to share experiences and examples as a reminder how changing times can put company at risk even the most successful ones and also share how a troubled, multi-billion dollar loss company can find their way back and keep its relevancy in today’s global economy.

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is an information technology company providing integrated solutions to information technology and knowledge of business processes. IBM was founded by Thomas J. Watson Sr. in early twentieth century and is headquartered in Armonk, New York. Historically, on June 16, 1911, three successful 19th century companies decided to merge, marking the milestone of IBM history - the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company of America. They joined together to incorporate and form one prominent company, which was early named: Computing Tabulating Recording Company. In 1924, however, Watson changed the company’s name to International Business Machines Corporation or IBM. From the beginning, IBM defined itself not only by selling products, which ranged from commercial scales to punch card tabulators, but also by its research and development.

IBM began designing and manufacturing calculators in the 1930s, using the technology of their own punch card-processing equipment. Financing by Harvard University, in 1944, IBM together invented the Mark 1 computer , the first machine to compute long calculations automatically. By 1953, IBM was ready to completely produce their own computers, which began with the IBM 701 EDPM, their first commercially successful general-purpose computer. Remarkably, in July 1980, Microsoft altogether joined hand in hand to create an operating system for IBM's new computer for the home consumer releasing on August 12, 1981. The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor. IBM had now stepped into the home consumer market, setting the shine of computer revolution.

Its history was a combined of great success and upheaval, dramatic loss. If one goes back about a quarter of a century, IBM was at the peak of success. Over the previous two decades it had practically invented general-purpose computing for business. IBM had helped put a man on the moon, won Nobel Prizes etc. Financially, its revenue and market share skyrocketed as customers hungered for its latest products.  During the 1980s and early 1990s, however, IBM was thrown into terrible turmoil by back-to-back revolutions. By 1993, the company’s annual net losses reached a record high ever $8 billion. Cost management and streamlining became a chief concern and that IBM considered splitting itself into different independent business divisions in an attempt to recover from troublesome.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. arriving as IBM’s CEO on April 1, 1993, despite mounting pressure to slice IBM into separate, independent companies, he decided to keep the company together. He visionarized that one of IBM’s enduring strengths was its ability to provide integrated solutions for customers - someone to represent more than piece parts or components. Splitting the company would have denied a unique IBM advantage.

Once again, customers were focused on integrated business solutions - a key IBM strength that combined the company’s expertise in solutions, services, products and technologies. Notably, services became the fastest growing segment of the company, with growth at more than 20 percent annually. As the decade drew to a close, IBM stood on the threshold of the new century having reestablished itself as a leading information technology innovator. Its leadership helped create the e-business revolution. And it had successfully transformed itself, achieving an impressive business turnaround.