Leadership Skills Life Sciences Coursework Essay Paper

1. Self-Assessment of Leadership Skills
As a first step, complete the Leadership Skills Questionnaire PDF document (attached). After taking the assessment, please do the following things:
A. Assessment results: Indicate your actual results for administrative, interpersonal, and conceptual skills. Then, for each skill, indicate whether your scores were in the low, moderate, or high range.
B. Actions for improvement: Take a moment to notice your strengths, and indicate at least one action that you can take to improve each of your weaknesses.
2. Read the Case Study: Why Twitter’s CEO Demoted Himself - https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2010/10/31/technology/31ev.html
This case focuses on Twitter's co-founder, Evan Williams, who demoted himself from his role as chief executive officer (CEO) in 2010. For this part of the assignment, please do the following things:
A. Read the case, “Why Twitter’s CEO Demoted Himself,” at https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2010/10/31/technology/31ev.html
B. READ "Twitter CEO Evan Williams Speaks in Tokyo." Speech is below
EVAN WILLIAMS: Well, thank you so much for coming out here tonight. It's an honor to be here celebrating the growth of Twitter in Japan with you. We've come a long way in two years, and especially in Japan. Japan, as you probably know, is one of the fastest growing countries in all the world for Twitter. And that's why we're here and very excited to talk with you.
So when we started Twitter four years ago, we had no idea where it would go. But what we've learned time and time again from listening to people all around the world is that Twitter is about the open exchange of information. And we strongly believe that the open exchange of information makes the world a better place.
So for example, this is a chart of all the tweets over the course of the world cup. And this represents the global conversation that Twitter enabled about this global event. And I'll point out one point. The top red dot says 3,283 TPS, which is tweets per second. The most tweets we've ever seen come in at one time were during the Japan-Denmark game.
SPEAKER 1: Yay.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
SPEAKER 1: I think I--
EVAN WILLIAMS: So that really shows how engaged our Japanese users are, which we really appreciate. So beyond looking at the numbers, I always push people in my company to really understand what's going on. And I use the phrase, seek the truth.
So I'm here tonight and very excited to learn from you why you use Twitter and how use Twitter and to listen to your stories. I'm very humbled to see how many of you actually presented stories to tell tonight. So we have a lot of work to do on Twitter still. I appreciate your patience, as this is just the beginning. And like I said, we're here to listen to what you have to say and go away to make a better service for you.
Arigatou gozaimasu.
C. Use the case study https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2010/10/31/technology/31ev.html, the speech above, and the concepts covered as the basis for your responses.
D. Respond to the following prompts, supporting your views with specific examples:
• Administrative skills: What were Williams’s strengths and weaknesses when it came to administrative skills? Provide 2 examples.
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• Conceptual skills: What was Williams’s vision for Twitter? (Refer to both the video and the written case.)
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• Interpersonal skills: What were Williams's strengths and/or weaknesses when it came to interpersonal skills? Provide 2 examples
3. Implementing a Vision and Leading Change
Use the concepts presented in this lesson to analyze a for-profit or not-for-profit organization's vision. You can select your own organization or another one. You can find some not-for-profits at https://topnonprofits(dot)com/. To analyze a for-profit organization, select a company website.
A. Organization’s vision statement: Indicate the organization’s vision statement, along with the website where you found it.
B. Actions for implementing and leading change: Within the lesson commentary, review the guidelines for implementing a vision and leading change. Based on the organization you selected, indicate three actions you would take to implement the vision or lead a change. Describe how each would look in practice within the organization.
4. Use APA format to provide citations and references for all of the sources used in this assignment.

Lesson 5 Assignment

1. 1.       Self-Assessment of Leadership Skills

As a first step, complete the Leadership Skills Questionnaire PDF document. After taking the assessment, please do the following things:

1. Assessment results: Indicate your actual results for administrative, interpersonal, and conceptual skills. Then, for each skill, indicate whether your scores were in the low, moderate, or high range.

1. Actions for improvement: Take a moment to notice your strengths, and indicate at least one action that you can take to improve each of your weaknesses.

1. 2.       Read the Case Study: Why Twitter’s CEO Demoted Himself - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/technology/31ev.html 

This case focuses on Twitter's co-founder, Evan Williams, who demoted himself from his role as chief executive officer (CEO) in 2010.  For this part of the assignment, please do the following things:

1. Read the case, “Why Twitter’s CEO Demoted Himself,” at https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/technology/31ev.html

1. READ "Twitter CEO Evan Williams Speaks in Tokyo." Speech is below

EVAN WILLIAMS: Well, thank you so much for coming out here tonight. It's an honor to be here celebrating the growth of Twitter in Japan with you. We've come a long way in two years, and especially in Japan. Japan, as you probably know, is one of the fastest growing countries in all the world for Twitter. And that's why we're here and very excited to talk with you.

So when we started Twitter four years ago, we had no idea where it would go. But what we've learned time and time again from listening to people all around the world is that Twitter is about the open exchange of information. And we strongly believe that the open exchange of information makes the world a better place.

So for example, this is a chart of all the tweets over the course of the world cup. And this represents the global conversation that Twitter enabled about this global event. And I'll point out one point. The top red dot says 3,283 TPS, which is tweets per second. The most tweets we've ever seen come in at one time were during the Japan-Denmark game.

SPEAKER 1: Yay.

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

SPEAKER 1: I think I--

EVAN WILLIAMS: So that really shows how engaged our Japanese users are, which we really appreciate. So beyond looking at the numbers, I always push people in my company to really understand what's going on. And I use the phrase, seek the truth.

So I'm here tonight and very excited to learn from you why you use Twitter and how use Twitter and to listen to your stories. I'm very humbled to see how many of you actually presented stories to tell tonight. So we have a lot of work to do on Twitter still. I appreciate your patience, as this is just the beginning. And like I said, we're here to listen to what you have to say and go away to make a better service for you.

Arigatou gozaimasu.

1. Use the case study https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/technology/31ev.html, the speech above, and the concepts covered as the basis for your responses.

1.   Respond to the following prompts, supporting your views with specific examples:

• Administrative skills: What were Williams’s strengths and weaknesses when it came to administrative skills? Provide 2 examples.


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• Conceptual skills: What was Williams’s vision for Twitter? (Refer to both the video and the written case.)


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• Interpersonal skills: What were Williams's strengths and/or weaknesses when it came to interpersonal skills? Provide 2 examples

1. Implementing a Vision and Leading Change

Use the concepts presented in this lesson to analyze a for-profit or not-for-profit organization's vision. You can select your own organization or another one. You can find some not-for-profits at https://topnonprofits.com/. To analyze a for-profit organization, select a company website.

1. Organization’s vision statement: Indicate the organization’s vision statement, along with the website where you found it.

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  1. Actions for implementing and leading change: Within the lesson commentary, review the guidelines for implementing a vision and leading change. Based on the organization you selected, indicate three actions you would take to implement the vision or lead a change. Describe how each would look in practice within the organization.
  
  

1. Use APA format to provide citations and references for all of the sources used in this assignment.