A500.3.3R.B Organizational Leadership as a system

Reflection on defining the organizational leadership as a body of systems, not a as body of information.

Reflecting on organizational leadership as a body of systems can be broken down into fundamental question: is the discipline of organizational leadership a system or simply a body of information? It is my opinion that it is a body of system.  Breaking down organizational leadership into a working definition indicates a body systems embedded in the discipline.  It is important to look at the subject into two parts (systems) that once combined demonstrates, a complex organism that moves towards a single goal.  To elaborate, use the definition of organizational leadership, that was previously identified in this weeks discussion, one can see that it is not just simply a body of information.  One of the best definitions for the first part (system) is leadership, the US Air Force 1948 definition of leadership, the “act of influencing others to accomplish the mission (Air Force, 2016).” The next key part of the subject is the organization itself, the easy definition for this part is, “a company, business, club, etc..that is formed for a particular purpose (Organization, 2011).” Putting the two words together as a single unit for organizational leadership, “the act of influencing the company towards a particular purpose.”  Illustrating the body of systems further, the art of moving an organizational to a purpose requires certain skills, development, logic, vocabulary, and internal systems or engines (Noisch, 2016) that keeps both the leader and the organization on a single track, thus this cannot simply be a just a body of information.    

Fields change and are diverse and the art of the organization changes with tide while bodies of information often remain data points and are not fluid and change slowly.  How does a company like Apple grow exponentially in ten years?  The company was guided through good leadership that used all of the systems to gain the competitive edge and evolved.  If we look evolution as not just simply a data of information, we seem to miss the newest change to the subject.  Arguably, everything changes humans, trees, and island are form, all of this part of the systems that make up evolution (Introduction, 2016).  An example to evolutions systems, are latest viruses, that have mutated past the point of known sciences (Evolution Resources, 2016).  There are so many systems (or sciences) that are used to understand how a simply organism can mutate to devastate a country.  Compared to a static body of information, the idea of a cure would never appear clearly.  The art of influencing a organization is very similar to this, how any systems are used to move the organization, and how has it changed since the inception of the organization.

Some of the systems that make up a successful art of the organization are: leadership, management and interpersonal relationships, to name a few.  Elaborating the Apple question further reveals how the later used his body of systems and the growth of the organization created a worldwide culture.  Apple was losing its competitive edge in the personal computer business and the stock was plummeting.  Steve Jobs one of the Apple creators, took a gamble and created a small device that a person can play music, game, talk on the phone and check email at the same time.  The amount of systems that were used in this, are overwhelming: leadership, marketing, communication, management, relationships, etc.. Almost over night the business sky rocketed.  Steve Jobs used his art of influence to move the entire body of systems inside of the organization toward a single goal, not just looking at the organization as bod of information.  

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