A. How do you define leadership and teamwork? (250 words)
The leadership is the competence of a manager or executive in leading a team to achieve a specific business goal. In my view, leader ship is the most important capability to be a successful business leader. The leadership can be brought up through painstaking practice and systematic education. Leadership would be evaluated in followed aspects:
1. Professional Experience and knowledge in particular flied;
2. People management skill;
3. Being focus and strategic;
4. Being principled, also flexible in handling details;
5. Be willing to take risk;
6. Be open-minded to accept any challenge and any new business environment.
All these factors take effect together in forge the characters of a mature manager. A business leader must balance the personal development of all these elements both in personality and career.
Teamwork refers to the close cooperation within a group or task force in pursuing the common goal. Teamwork can be applied to many group activities in the society, such as family life, military action, commerce and so forth. In a broad understanding, teamwork applies most social activities and functions. Each person the society can not make living and work without teamwork because individual can not produce all material and spiritual necessities for himself or herself. People must rely on the contribution of others in the society. Along with the globalization in both economy and civilization, the tendency in occupation classification become specific and narrow more and more. Consequently, the teamwork—Cooperation in the commercial activities is becoming more crucial and important.
As to respective business unit or department in a company, the teamwork means that the manager must clearly define the respective role of the team member and make sure the members be accountable each other with close cooperation. As to the whole company, the teamwork means that manager must clearly understand the function of his/her business group within the whole entity. The manger must have a big vision on the overall mission of the company and respective division or department must act as organic part serving the whole organization.
B. Describe a significant leadership experience, decision-making challenge, or accomplishment (what motivated you? What challenged you?). and comment on their effectiveness. (500 words)
