This document discusses effective leadership strategies and analyzes the character of Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada. It recommends that leaders get perspective, address challenges, manage stress, focus on the work, empower employees, and protect diverse opinions. Though Priestly is portrayed as harsh, she delivers results as the magazine's editor-in-chief by holding high standards, being direct, earning respect through her reputation, mentoring others, and separating her personal and work life. The document asks the reader if they will take Priestly's effective approach to leadership.
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1. The Work of Leadership
A short account of The Devil Wears Pradas Miranda Priestly
2. How should leaders work?
Get on the balcony
Identify adaptive challenges
Regulate distress
Maintain disciplined attention
Give the work back to employees
Protect leadership voices from below
3. Who is Miranda Priestly?
In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly is portrayed
as cruel, cutthroat and mercurial boss. Priestly successfully
spearheads the premier womens magazine portrayed in
the film, manages an entire staff and is completely
dedicated to her job. Though her methods may be
unconventional and, yes, at times brusque, you cannot
argue that Priestly consistently delivers as an invaluable
Editor-in-Chief.
4. Miranda is a Boss, not a B***t*h
1. She holds high standards and pushes her employees to meet them
2. Shes direct about what she needs done
3. Shes earned her respect and reputation
4. Miranda acts as a mentor
5. She separates her personal and work life
Source: http://elitedaily.com/women/devil-wears-prada-boss-btch-women-workplace-get-bad-rep/