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Hessa AlHumidan
Leadership and Teamwork
Hessah Alhumidan
Prince Mohammed University
23th of Feb 2O13
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Contents
Introduction: ........................................................................................................................... 3
Integrity ...................................................................................................................................5
Dedication ................................................................................................................................5
Openness .................................................................................................................................5
Creativity ..................................................................................................................................5
Importance of Effective Leadership at Microsoft: .................................................................. 5
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Introduction:
Every organization aspires to be successful and powerful. A prosperous
organization as Microsoft is not just the leading company that has an effective and
easy operating system to use interface for people on their computers, but it is an
expert that has presented a high level of leadership within the industry. This report
shows corporate background of Microsoft, states the leadership of Microsoft
Corporation by analyzing and indentifying the leadership applied within Microsoft
and the leadership role of Microsoft, Furthermore, the importance of effective
leadership are provided at the end of this report.
Corporate Background of Microsoft:
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational gigantic know as one of the
most innovative companies in the world by licensing, developing and publishing
software, Microsoft has been dominating the software industry for ages.
The core principles that followed by Microsoft are candor and integrity, openness
personal merit, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement and mutual
respect (corporation, (2012))
Analysis of Leadership of Microsoft:
Since its establishment, Microsoft has been getting successful in every short
period, one reason of that is the leadership that is unique to Microsoft. Before any
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new employee at Microsoft starts exercising his/her job, he/she should be informed
about Microsoft ethics also leadership roles. For more instance, the skills of a new
employee at this company will be building using strong roles which are developing
the employee ethics and make him/her more responsible and let the new employee
believes in his/her smartness and abilities. In addition, Microsoft treats its workers in
a very high level which lead the workers feel special in their career paths along with
Microsoft. It also seeks to make each employee a leader on his/herself first and then, a
leader of team if he/she deals with groups. Moreover, the core part that Microsoft
appeals in its unique leadership is how to share its employees' talents across the
company and toward the whole world.
Here is some of the leadership of Microsoft qualities:
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Integrity
is "the incorporation of outward actions and inner values." A person of integrity is the
same on the outside and on the inside. Honest dealing and an absence of tantrums and
harsh outbursts are all signs of integrity that what Microsoft looking forward to develop
in its own employees so that they can be able to be great leaders.
Dedication
means "spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand."
However, being a great leader does not mean forcing the other members of the team to
do more work with the leader doing nothing; a team leader should do the work as hard
as each member of the group does. Equality and fairness in working are what Microsoft
treats its employees with.
Openness
means "being able to listen to new ideas" even if they do not conform to the usual way
of thinking. Excellent leaders at Microsoft are able to suspend judgment while listening
to other thoughts as well as accept new way of doing programming that someone else
thought of. Openness has built mutual respect and trust between Microsoft leaders and
followers, and it also had kept any team in Microsoft well supplied with new ideas that
can further its vision.
Creativity
is "the ability to think differently, to get outside the box that constrains solutions."
Creativity gives leaders at Microsoft the capacity to do things such writing a program in
a different way which others have not done the same of it before. This is one of
Microsoft strong qualities that has made the company successful.
Microsoft includes a lot of creative leaders which they have been taught by the great
expert leader which is Microsoft Corporation itself.
Importance of Effective Leadership at Microsoft:
The effective leadership has its substance at Microsoft so, effective leadership is
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one of Microsoft's most valuable assets. One of the hallmarks of any leader is
dedication to continual self-improvement and perfection. Leadership is a skill that
Microsoft seeks to teach its employee to be unique having and dealing with it inside
and outside its branches.
Conclusion:
Microsoft is such enormous, giant, and ascendant Corporation that can be describe
as majestic school which is specialist in the origins of leadership. The most forceful
key of Microsoft hits is the smart strategizes of ethics, honest skills, and leadership
that it cares to informed its staff to deal with it and never ever give up with any of
these roles. Microsoft is a company that is going over a successful path as long as it is
attached to its own elegant candid ethics and leadership. At the end, leadership at
Microsoft is born not made.
References:
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http://www.focus.com/briefs/top-10-leadership-qualities
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