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Asami Fukodo is the Vice-President, Operations of QuanSolar, a solar panel manufacturing company located in Kyoto, Japan. She is an accomplished and formidable professional, who managed to reach and keep a place at the top of her field.
Although known as an "agent of change," she tends to be cautious and does not take too many risks. For example, trained as a scientist, Fukodo likes to test the winds and make her decision like a scientist, based on a careful calculation of all the different factors at play. Self-assured in her judgments, decision making, ideas, and capabilities, she assesses the different factors involved in a given situation and then decides which way she wants to go and does it quietly and without fanfare.
Her extraordinary drive and staying power, and her belief that you must work harder than anyone working with you has been of great benefit to her firm, the business community, and society at large.
Even though she is very self-confident and outspoken, Asami lacks superior oratory skills and as a result tends to shy away from public speaking.
Her calmness under fire is reflected in the many ways she has dealt with the crises that confronted her during her leadership. For example, due to increased prices for China's labour force, Asami negotiated and obtained technology from India, to more effectively produce their products to meet market demands and ensure QuanSolar achieved its profit goals.
Known for bringing people together, seeking cooperation rather than confrontation and showing her interest in the way she engages with her followers, Fukodo makes her employees feel like they were the most important people in the world at that moment, and showed great empathy, tolerance, patience and respect to people, was a great listener and maintained an open-door policy. Asami lets her passion for values and fairness drive QuanSolar's operating strategy, not the behaviour of its competitors. She is not afraid to question established ways of doing things. Her strong moral compass is instrumental in establishing QuanSolar as a strong and sustainable, values-based company with leading brands and market shares across its businesses and a bold vision for the future.
Using the categories of the Big Five Model of Personality (as noted in the required reading, Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development, 6th Edition, eText version by Lussier, R. and Achua, C. 2015), select any ONE of the "Leadership Traits within the Big Five" associated with the categories and describe briefly Asami Fukodo's traits and personality and support your discussion by providing brief evidence from the case study. For example, for Surgency, select dominance, extraversion OR high energy and determination; for Agreeableness, select sociability/sensitivity OR emotional intelligence, etc. Also,