BUS600 how OTHER people will characterize you as leader? Using the VCM model

The leadership VCM model:
There are 3 characteristics, Vision, Commitment and Management Skill are part of leader's personal profile.
The reason leadership is important because it involves a set of interpersonal influence processes. Balanced VCM is critical for success, because it aim at motivating subordinates, creating a vision for team's future and developing strategies for achieveing goals.

Below I paste a reference - it is summary of the article of by Daniel Goleman, from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review Article

What Makes a Leader? (HBR Classic)

When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally associated with leadership. Often left off the list are softer, more personal qualities--but they are also essential. Although a certain degree of analytical and technical skill is a minimum requirement for success, studies indicate that emotional intelligence may be the key attribute that distinguishes outstanding performers from those who are merely adequate. Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman first brought the term "emotional intelligence" to a wide audience with his 1995 book of the same name, and Goleman first applied the concept to business with this 1998 classic HBR article. In his research at nearly 200 large, global companies, Goleman found that truly effective leaders are distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence. Without it, a person can have first-class training, an incisive mind, and an endless supply of good ideas, but he or she still won't be a great leader. The chief components of emotional intelligence--self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill--can sound unbusinesslike, but Goleman, cochair of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based at Rutgers University, found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable business results.

BUS600 business analysis - Bench mark competitor

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BUS600 Ethics

Topic on Ethics dilemmas - Social responsibility vs maximizing profits
From Wikipedia, Social responsibility is an ethical ideology or theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large.
But in reality, many corporations care more about maximizing profits of their stakeholders, they claim a profitable business could create job, pay taxes which could support government's social activities. On the other hand, some industries' product could bring harmfulness to human being.
For example, cigarette industry in China, is very popular and is one of major income of local government because of higher tax. In many poor area, especially mountain area, majority of blue collar workers have heavy smoke habits, which is the only way to relieve them from long hours' & intense work load; Smoking could induce lung disease or even cancer, suffering such disease, they could only wait for death, no money to go to hospital. Now some improvement from Chinese government to set up aid for poor people, but the fund is far from sufficient to cover all poor people need. Those people are the victim of cigarette industry. Statistical data shows the smokers' age trends down, younger, which makes me worry a lot.
What can we do?