Fortune 500 company

choose a leader of a Fortune 500 company that you can conduct some outside research on, and address the following about the leader in a two-page paper. Name of the leader and the company and the industry the leader operates within. Position the leader holds within the company and number of years the leader has held the position. How did this person become the leader of this company? Did the leader create the company? Was he/she appointed? Did he/she work internally for the company or come from another company to take over? Explain. Discuss the leader in terms of how he/she uses power in accordance with the five sources and types of power from French and Raven in your readings. Which does this leader rely on most? Least? Provide examples. Discuss the leader in terms of traits (Trait research from the readings) Select one leadership theory from your readings that most resembles this leader and discuss how it fits with this leader?

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Background and qualifications of the leader Sundar Pichai was born in Chennai, India, in 1972. He completed his Bachelor’s degree from IIT Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering before attending Stanford University for a Master’s degree in Material Sciences and Engineering. He then attended Wharton for an MBA where he graduated with honors. After working at McKinsey & Co., he joined Google as its Senior Vice President of Product Management and Innovation in 2004 where he took charge of development teams that worked on high growth products such as Gmail, Chrome and Android mobile operating system. In 2015, he became the CEO of Google after being appointed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.    
Firstly, Vittola discusses one of the just causes of war, most importantly, is when harm is inflicted but he does mention the harm does not lead to war, it depends on the extent or proportionality, another condition to jus ad bellum (Begby et al (2006b), Page 314). Frowe, however, argues the idea of “just cause” based on “Sovereignty” which refers to the protection of political and territorial rights, along with human rights. In contemporary view, this view is more complicated to answer, given the rise of globalisation. Similarly, it is difficult to measure proportionality, particularly in war, because not only that there is an epistemic problem in calculating, but again today’s world has developed (Frowe (2011), Page 54-6). Furthermore, Vittola argues war is necessary, not only for defensive purposes, ‘since it is lawful to resist force with force,’ but also to fight against the unjust, an offensive war, nations which are not punished for acting unjustly towards its own people or have unjustly taken land from the home nation (Begby et al (2006b), Page 310&313); to “teach its enemies a lesson,” but mainly to achieve the aim of war. This validates Aristotle’s argument: ‘there must be war for the sake of peace (Aristotle (1996), Page 187). However, Frowe argues “self-defence” has a plurality of descriptions, seen in Chapter 1, showing that self-defence cannot always justify one’s actions. Even more problematic, is the case of self-defence in war, where two conflicting views are established: The Collectivists, a whole new theory and the Individualists, the continuation of the domestic theory of self-defence (Frowe (2011), Page 9& 29-34). More importantly, Frowe refutes Vittola’s view on vengeance because firstly it empowers the punisher’s authority, but also today’s world prevents this action between countries through legal bodies like the UN, since we have modernised into a relatively peaceful society (Frowe (2011), Page 80-1). Most importantly, Frowe further refutes Vittola through his claim that ‘right intention cannot be used as an excuse to wage war in response to anticipated wrong,’ suggesting we cannot just harm another just because they have done something unjust. Other factors need to be considered, for example, Proportionality. Thirdly, Vittola argues that war should be avoided (Begby et al (2006b), Page 332) and that we should proceed circumstances diplomatically. This is supported by the “last resort”