Imagine that you’re an expert in the principles of business leadership. You have been invited to present at a conference held for some of the top executives at Fortune 500 companies. Your assigned topic is “Leveraging Leadership to Maximize Business Success.”

Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation in which you address the following:

• Introduction to leadership:
  • Explain the differences between management and leadership, and how cultivating leadership skills in managers can benefit the organization.
  • Explain how managers can set effective expectations for their employees to increase organizational performance.

• Organizational culture:
  • Describe how managers, when applying leadership principles, can contribute to a healthy organizational culture.

• Managerial control:
  • Identify some of the key control mechanisms, and describe how management can apply them to aid in achieving organizational goals.

• Leveraging diversity:
  • Summarize some of the best practices for leading a diverse workforce, and the benefits that can come to the organization through leveraging diversity.

Support your presentation with the concepts discussed in the text, and your personal experiences. Your in-class presentation should include your analysis of managerial control, organizational culture and leveraging diversity. Your in-class presentation should be no more than 15 minutes.