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Taking on the role of a CEO, explain how you would adapt the Western leadership strategies of either Heifetz and Linsky or Drucker in your approach to managing an international organization on the brink of structural change and expansion. One of your main goals will be to motivate and communicate a vision while connecting to the firm's mission for all stakeholders, including your Board of Directors. A brief profile of the organization is as follows:

The company is a manufacturing firm with annual earnings in excess of $350 million.
It is headquartered in the United States, has two branches in the United Kingdom, and one expansion branch set to open in China.
A new branch will provide more innovative technologies to infuse the firm's declining market share while also presenting cultural management and organizational integration challenges.
Your presentation should contain the following components:

Identification of your chosen leadership philosophy with justification of your choice.
Using Porter's Five Forces as a strategic guide, please explain how you will approach Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Risk Assessment.
Complete a Financial Risk Assessment for acquiring the new technology company by identification and explanation of at least four risks which could impact your organization.
Identification and explanation of the key internal structures (at least 3) that will be designed to enhance the culture within your organization
Explanation of how projected global and market trends over the next 10-15 years will impact your company's ability to maintain a competitive advantage.

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The review into leadership styles by a CEO to implement important strategic decisions for a global organization expansion protocol.

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Identify and justify a chosen leadership philosophy.

In global enterprises as in your case study, the CEO as the sole leader to (a) motivate (b) influence (c) and produce results with multi-cultural work teams requires a bigger than expected (1) personality -plus- (2) strong effective decision making - to connect with the large global staff internationally, not just home state. Consider the types of leadership philosophy that covers the areas mention for further research to deliver the type of approach to strategy that delivers the right results. For example:

- The charismatic leader is strongly influential which is key to motivate multiples of people to produce the CEO desired results, such as, change into opening a new office, hiring different groups of segments of the population into an already mixed cultural workplace, adapting to new changes within departments - people mostly move towards a new change if the leader has a strong character exhibits charismatic (very likable to many people) with an authoritarian leadership style that doesn't discriminates or offends others.

- The Power of their personality comes from their ability to know what to say, how to say it that can assist in leading a large global enterprise into the next change phase, thus, the charismatic leader is an effective way to influence constituents to move quickly to enact an organization's vision or long ...

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