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1955 Simon Hui ENGL 1127 Professor C. Johnson The Difference in Leadership Working at a single store of the giant grocery corporation Safeway allows an employee to meet lots of different people; from customers, to fellow employees and to bosses. Every boss I’ve had up to date has had different personalities and different managing styles to fit. Besides gender differences and physical differences, there are also the leadership differences. Managers must have good leadership, managing abilities and positive personalities. While working at Safeway, I have had experiences with many managers; however, the greatest difference I found was between two different managers I had at Safeway. Good leadership is defined as someone who can take charge and responsibility for everyone in their team. For my position, the managers of a store are the direct leaders. Good leaders can give their subordinates a task and trust that they can complete it without flaws. Also, they should see to it that the employee is notified if there is a problem with the task at hand. For example, one manager I had described everything that was wrong with an end-display if it was built incorrectly and taught me on how to correct the mistake. A different manager allowed me to complete the task, thinking it was done correctly; however, the manager then had me change it at a later time; wasting my time that could have been spent on another task. These kinds of leaders are the ones that are inefficient. In order to become a good leader, all that is needed is a good group of attentive team members and respect for their team’s best efforts and hard work; if a leader doesn’t have these, he or she will be hated upon and their leading ability will be tested. Personalities in managers at Safeway range quite a bit. There have been the lazy, the annoying, the hard working, and the nice managers. All of them have had their moments where they showed what kind of personality they have by being managers. I...