Essays on Leaders You Admire

“A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead.” The story takes place in Maycomb with the Finch family, Atticus gets a life changing case with Tom. After losing the case Bob attacked Scout and Jem. However Boo Radley, a silent mysterious neighbor came to rescue them. Throughout all the problems Atticus remains a character with good qualities. Harper Lee establishes that Atticus Finch is a good leader, and a strong moral character, by using point ...

He was born in atlanta on january 15th 1929, throughout his childhood he had a somewhat privileged access to education, attending washington high school, morehouse college and boston university.Martin took on a lot of his father values and beliefs in religion and in everyday life, his father would send him out to work in the fields to gain respect for being brought up in a catholic home martin was brought up on the ways of jesus christ and was a strong believer in his approach of how people ...

While the chief technology officer (CTO) role has been around for a while, its responsibility has varied over time and across industries. Traditionally, it has been the focal role to keep track of external IT trends, policies, and procedures critical to developing or improving a company’s products and services. In my mind, any fairly large product or service based company must have someone at the CXO level who is directly responsible for interpreting how new technologies will affect its ...

In the 20th century many countries in Asian and Africa were conquered and colonized by the western nations like Dutch, British, Portuguese, Spaniards and French. South Africa was under the Dutch rule before the minority British took over the government. The white minority exploited the native Africans and got them to do all menial work on their agricultural farms and industrial projects. The natives were treated as inferior to the whites. They were segregated. This racial discrimination was ...

The leader that does not have a solid military bearing risks losing the trust, certainty, and most importantly, the respect of their Soldiers. The loss of military bearing has prompted leaders to be relieved of their obligations. Professionalism is a key component in not only the military, but also in life. Leaders are not the only ones that can suffer from bearing, Soldiers as well. In a working environment you must always remember to never mix business with pleasure. What you do on your ...

A community’s health is greatly affected and influenced by its members, their personal health and habits, their ethics, perspectives towards life, their social capital, the immediate environment and of course their religiosity and spirituality. The small yet unique Parsi community is no exception. The community which had fled to India from Iran some 1200 years ago to escape religious persecution by the fanatical Muslim invaders could stand independent on the Indian soil on the execution of ...

Barack Obama Sr. while studying at the University of Hawaii met Ann Dunham, and after few months they married on February 2, 1961. Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He had multiracial descent, with his mother from Germany and Ireland, and his dad from Kenya. While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy, He was very good in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979. As one of only three black students at ...

People who lived in Uzbekistan is about 55,000 to 70,000 years ago which is as early as the Palaeolithic Period (Old Stone Age). In the 1st millennium bce in the fertile region around the Amu Darya, the silk road between china and Europe act as a place for trading and culture exchange. Alexander the Great entered of Cyrus the Great Achaemenid empire in the 4th century BC. He stopped near Marakanda (Samarkand) and then married Roxana, a local chieftain's daughter, after conquering the Sogdians ...

When a human takes initiative to communicate with others for some exchange purpose with a valuable value, Leaders can take control of their leaders by popularity, threat and inspiration, headed by the transfer, ("Leaders are approaching approach to followers." The transaction leader mentions the standards for compliance and may punish the supporters to comply with those standards. Leading transaction models emphasize indirect social exchange or transaction. This exchange approach emphasizes a ...

From the 1950s to 1960s, California migrant farm workers experienced difficult times, facing unfair working conditions in the fields and discriminated against "white" Americans. All of the Mexican agricultural workers worked in inferior and poor conditions daily, with a low wage. Although providing food for all of America, it was not until C?sar Ch?vez decided to make a change for these workers with his leadership by forming a union to make a difference. C?sar Ch?vez (1927-1993) was a Mexican ...

The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader about effective listening as a leader. The United States Army uses effective listening to better lead Soldiers. There are many ways you can use effective listening to make you a better leader. Effective listening is where you not only listen to the word, but you use your other senses to process and feel what the person is saying. One way to listen effectively would be to show that you care. Another way to display effective listening is by being ...

Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host that owns the production studio. She is also an actress and producer. (Ward, 1999, p. 5) Oprah Winfrey was born January 29, 1954 in Mississippi. When she was older, she was taught to behave at home and in school by her strict father. (Ward, 1999, p. 6) When Oprah was going to college she had a job as a reporter at a radio station. (Ward, 1999, p. 9) In 1986 she then got a job as a talk show host in Chicago and it was because the TV station liked her honest ...

With having few years of work experience, I never got a chance to work for a female supervisor. I have always been reporting to a male supervisor. There were few female supervisors because of glass ceiling. Now coming to the advantages and disadvantages of working with a male and female boss, different people have different opinion. Lets look at some of the advantages of female boss. Great communicators – Women are preferable audience members over men and this is the most imperative ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 and was a South African lawyer, liberation leader and politician. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was South Africa's first black president from 1994-1999. Mandela graduated as a lawyer and opened a law office with the later President of the African National Congress (ANC), Oliver Tambo in 1952. From 1991 to 1997 he was the senior leader of the ANC. He first became active in the organization from the 1940s, and the most important debate was ...

There are many types of leadership styles/approaches such as situational leadership approach, path-goal theory approach, transformational leadership approach and adaptive leadership approach. This week’s assignment will discuss the four types of leadership approaches: situational leadership approach, path-goal theory approach, transformational leadership approach, and adaptive leadership approach, the strengths or benefits and potential weaknesses or limitations of each of these four ...