Leadership Style
Leadership Style
Marcia Williams
LDR/532
January 28, 2014
Leadership Style
Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, built her success through leadership. Studying her leadership style to compare and contrast one’s own style can help a person identify areas he or she may find as his or her own strengths and areas he or she may want to work to improve. Often discovering other people’s view can provide new insight, a mentor is an ideal person to discuss this topic with. Finding a role model to evaluate his or her style of leadership and identifying one’s own characteristics as a leader are the starting point for creating a personal development plan to work toward becoming the type of leader one wishes to be.
Mary Kay Ash
According to Yulk, transformational leaders, “seek to raise the consciousness of followers by appealing to ideals and moral values such as liberty, justice, equality, peace, and humanitarianism, not to baser emotions such as fear, greed, jealousy, or hatred” (2013, p. 347). Mary Kay Ash was a transformational leader. During a time period where women were not viewed as equal to men, she started a new business that empowered women. Not only did she build a business for women, she established a charitable foundation to support cancer research and later expanded its purpose to fighting violence against women ("Celebrating Mary Kay Ash", n.d.). It would take a huge amount of courage, confidence, and drive to accomplish the things she was able to. To have this type of impact on such a large group of people even would provide a person with an enormous sense of accomplishment.
Strengths of Self Qualities necessary to be a positive leader that are possessed by the author include respectful, good communicator, resourceful, rewarding, an openness to change, organized, delegator, takes initiative, listens to and responds to feedback as well as provides constructive feedback to others (University of Oregon, 2009). Treating others with respect will
Marcia Williams
LDR/532
January 28, 2014
Leadership Style
Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, built her success through leadership. Studying her leadership style to compare and contrast one’s own style can help a person identify areas he or she may find as his or her own strengths and areas he or she may want to work to improve. Often discovering other people’s view can provide new insight, a mentor is an ideal person to discuss this topic with. Finding a role model to evaluate his or her style of leadership and identifying one’s own characteristics as a leader are the starting point for creating a personal development plan to work toward becoming the type of leader one wishes to be.
Mary Kay Ash
According to Yulk, transformational leaders, “seek to raise the consciousness of followers by appealing to ideals and moral values such as liberty, justice, equality, peace, and humanitarianism, not to baser emotions such as fear, greed, jealousy, or hatred” (2013, p. 347). Mary Kay Ash was a transformational leader. During a time period where women were not viewed as equal to men, she started a new business that empowered women. Not only did she build a business for women, she established a charitable foundation to support cancer research and later expanded its purpose to fighting violence against women ("Celebrating Mary Kay Ash", n.d.). It would take a huge amount of courage, confidence, and drive to accomplish the things she was able to. To have this type of impact on such a large group of people even would provide a person with an enormous sense of accomplishment.
Strengths of Self Qualities necessary to be a positive leader that are possessed by the author include respectful, good communicator, resourceful, rewarding, an openness to change, organized, delegator, takes initiative, listens to and responds to feedback as well as provides constructive feedback to others (University of Oregon, 2009). Treating others with respect will
References: Celebrating Mary Kay Ash. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.marykaytribute.com/LegacyofGiving.aspx University of Oregon. (2009). Holden Leadership Center. Retrieved from http://leadership.uoregon.edu/resources/exercises_tips/skills/leadership_characteristics Yukl, G. (2013). Leadership in organizations (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.