Taran Swan Case Study

A Leader’s Power and Influence

Taran Swan is faced with a leadership decision that will have a great bearing on her ability to run an exceptionally, newly established Nickelodeon Latin America (A) cable channel from her home in New York. Even though she built the most experienced, creative, and innovated team to construct this project from the ground up, she is now faced with a medical decision that will remove her presence from her team for quite some time during a critical stage of further and future development of her department. The decisions Taran is facing involve whether she should continue to lead the team from her home in New York and if so would she have to adjust her leadership style and working relationship with them. Another consideration

Especially if her selection of one of her well-experienced interim leaders causes friction or problems within her team members. The website, ‘Difference Between.com’ explains that power and influence can be used collectively to achieve specific tasks. “However, since power is often associated with fear, there is a tendency for the task to be completed poorly. Especially, when the person, who uses the power, is absent, the quality of work decreases,” (Last updated on: January 21, 2015). This could be an unconscious core concern of Taran and why she is apprehensive about her ability to lead the team from her home in New

This meeting is critical, as it is intended to provide a foundation where synergy is influenced and encouraged, which in turn encourages the groundwork for expressing ideas, strategies, and creativity, and will aid in determining the company’s forward direction. Although, her pre-concerns are focused on how she would manage this meeting and maintain her leadership duties, her focus has now shifted to how she will be able to offer any assistance and how this meeting will still take place in her