Polytechnic Institute of New York University

My Transformation as a Leader Introduction Leadership is about influence. Charles R. Swindoll said, ”If I were asked to define leadership in one single word, the word would be influence.” (Swindoll, 1990, p. 16) A leader is someone who can influence others and who has managerial authority. Leadership is a process of leading a group and influencing to achieve its goals. (Robbins & Coulter, 2009, p. 385). My earlier leadership style was influenced by my father who was a former non commissioned…

Collectivism implies that people are integrated from birth into strong, cohesive groups that protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. Hofstede found that individualistic cultures value personal time, freedom, challenge, and such extrinsic motivators as material rewards at work. In family relations, they value honesty/truth, talking things out, using guilt to achieve behavioral goals, and maintaining self-respect. Their societies and governments place individual social-economic…

While ubiquitous Internet access is extremely convenient and enables marvelous new applications for mobile users, it also creates a major security vulnerability—by placing a passive receiver in the vicinity of the wireless transmitter, that receiver can obtain a copy of every packet that is transmitted! These packets can contain all kinds of sensitive information, including passwords, social security numbers, trade secrets, and private personal messages. A passive receiver that records a copy of…