Leader Case

According to McBride (2010) leadership is recognized by identifying and effective or ineffective leader, by what qualities result in transformational and visionary leadership. To survive in progressively more competitive markets, companies have to attract and maintain excellent leaders to guide their companies in attaining objectives. Innovation and creativity lead managers to develop into powerful leaders, bringing inspiration to the staff and ingenuity to problem-solving processes. To produce managers with the highest potential for leadership, higher education institutes have a responsibility to focus on developing students' ability to learn and plan for a lifetime of leadership. McBride also states that "One strategy for effective leadership is always to act with ethics as the primary objective" (2010 ). Clearly good managers can accomplish objectives, yet excellent leaders always questions why things are done the way they are and can recognize the significance of thinking creatively and from an open-minded perspective.

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People are usually motivated to go to work and perform their jobs well and efficiently because they perceive that by doing so, they will receive a pay increase, a bonus, or some other incentive. People are motivated by various perceptions. They perceive that what they are doing is helping other individuals, has a good cause, will prepare them for the future. "Employees tend to stagnate when motivation decreases and it will decrease, without proper motivation" (Curry, 2011). If an individual perceives that what he or she is doing is not worth the time and effort, his or her motivation may start