Essays on Leader

The first promotion I received was to lead a team of entry-level, non-management employees. I was terrified but wanted to make sure I was nothing like all of the terrible leaders that I had experienced up to that point in my young career. However, what…

Growing up on the south side of Chicago can be pretty daunting, although the opportunities abound; without a good mentor and mentoring shadow overlooking your every move, the pressure of every day can take you down the drain. As a black man, the incline to…

In the past, leadership and management positions were reserved for those considered to have high cognitive intelligence and/or technical acumen. In the past two decades, the importance of emotional intelligence has become more widely accepted and recognized. Goleman (2014) suggests of emotional intelligence, “Without it,…

Our nation has so many innovators and inventors. However, people remember only a few of them for their excellent achievements and accomplishments. This country is neither new nor short of excellent leaders who lead society with integrity and honesty. Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs were…

A cult is a group of people who support and organize around a strong central authority figure. Cult goals are usually to expand influence for money or for power. The use of deception and persuasion can displace a person’s identity and “replace” it with a…

Lucy Sprague Mitchell was born in Chicago on July 2 1878 to Otho and Lucia Sprague. She was their fourth child and their third daughter. Her father was a very well-off merchant while her mother was one of the leaders to grow the cultural and…

A leader is defined as a person who leads or influence people to achieve the desired goals of an organization or country willingly and enthusiastically. Barack Obama, a very familiar name now; which otherwise could have been very common like us. He was born on…

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…

Leader exists everywhere in our daily life, and everyone might experience once in their life. Some people lead a big company, some are the leader of a team, and some just lead themselves. These are all leaders in different forms, and they might require different…

Leadership Introduction Leadership, by definition, is the ability to direct or inspire people to attain certain goals. There are different styles of leadership. There are autocratic leaders, that gives very little power to their followers, the democratic leaders who try to include the followers or…