Showing posts with label student leaders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student leaders. Show all posts

Sunday, July 11, 2010

£ 50.00 for best comment

Let's talk student business!

Quick update from founder: I now work for a Public Limited Company in the United Kingdom. My degree has truly been put to the test, along with my marketing understanding. A degree/diploma offers a good foundation but a lot more needs to be built in order to achieve what is written on that degree/diploma - this comes through practical situations in the business environment and could be fast-forwarded in business orientated student organisations at uni. I continue to learn a lot, now it is time like always to give back.

So let's talk student business!
I will reward the student with the best comment with £ 50.00 which I think should be around R 560,00.

Here is the question: What do you think it takes for a student to become a business leader?

Monday, June 15, 2009

Leadership Styles

I thought I would use a portion of my thesis which touches on leadership styles. My thesis is entitled "The usage of CRM as a sustainable competitive advantage: A study of Jetline George." CRM stands for customer relationship marketing. We as BLS members should take pride in our univeristy and research should be a cornerstone within BLS's foundation.

Leadership Styles

The leadership style of a manager will have a direct influence on achieving long-term and sustainable growth in CRM. CRM being focused on building long-term relationships with customers must be complimented with a leadership style that can nurture employees in an organisation to work interdependently to achieve long-term and sustainable growth in CRM.

Dr Stephen Covey (2004:49) an internationally respected leadership authority noted that many managers are ineffective generates of long-term and sustainable growth in [CRM] as their maturity level as a leader has not passed the level of independence and as a manager continues to grow and mature as a leader, he/she becomes increasingly aware that all of nature is interdependent, that there is an ecological system that governs nature, including society. This realisation allows a manager to combine their own efforts with the efforts of his/her employees to achieve his/her greatest success.

The following leadership styles in Table 1 and Table 2 below have been identified and classified according to their level of effectiveness in terms of their interdependency or independence nature and their effectiveness or ineffectiveness in achieving long-term and sustainable growth in CRM.

TABLE 1
INTERDEPENDENT LEADERSHIP STYLES (EFFECTIVE IN ACHIEVING LONG-TERM AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN CRM)



Source: Adapted from Leadership Styles (2009¶7)