contrast the characteristics of two of America’s female leaders. In analysing the effectiveness of their leadership‚ this essay will evaluate the traits‚ personality‚ history‚ experience‚ and values of each leader. The ability to bring people together around shared beliefs and a common organisational purpose to create a sense of belonging is a prerequisite for an effective leader and will formulate the basis of defining an effective leader for the purpose of this paper. Sarah Louise Heath Palin
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Transactional Leader as the word implies business or exchange. Burns‚ 1978‚ opined that a transactional leader is someone who leads though social exchange. It is a process that I simply call trade by batter‚ you do this for me‚ and you get that in return. A politician can be a transactional leader when he seeks to exchange one thing for another i.e. making promises and pulling through with the promises after an election. Also most business leaders are seen as transformational when they give out incentives
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old question. Are leaders made or are they born? My belief on this – I believe that a leader is made‚ not born. Why do I say that? Before going further‚ lets be clear on one distinction – when we say a leader is made‚ it does not mean that someone can be taught to become a leader by attending leadership courses. While it helps‚ it is not enough. Warren Bennis (a leading leadership researcher) believes that one cannot be taught to become a leader but one can learn to become a leader over the years through
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THE LEADER WITH VISION: THE OPTIMISTIC LEADER INTRODUCTION This paper shall be discussed in four parts as follows: • Articulating Your Vision • Living Your Vision • Influence Others With Positive Attitude • Conclusion A leader is someone who guides others. One who assumes t he position of responsibility over the conduct of others that he is leading. Vision on the other hand is “a picture formed in the mind; something conjured up in the imagination without being related to facts.”
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Leaders of the French Revolution Made By: Abby Bour Table of Contents Louis XVI Maximillien Robespierre Napoleon Bonaparte Louis XVI Louis XVI Louis XVI was born on August 23‚ 1754 in Versailles‚ France. He was born to his mother‚ Princess Marie-Josephine‚ and his father‚ Louis‚ the Dauphin of France. He was born with the name of Louis-August‚ Duke of Berry. Louis-August was the oldest of seven children‚ but was the third son. When his father was 36‚ he died of Lung Tuberculosis
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Barack Obama‚ Oprah Winfrey‚ John F. Kennedy‚ and Martin Luther King Junior to name a few were and are great leaders in their own right. But were they born great leaders or taught to be good leaders? To give the qualities of a good leader you must understand what leadership is. “Leadership is the ability to influence people toward the attainment of goals”. (Lamberton‚ Minor‚ 2008‚ para 1.) What does this mean? This means that by being a good influence toward a person(s) then they will be able
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The Oprah Winfrey Network’s (OWN) megachurch drama series “Greenleaf” season two shows how a male married Christian character continues to struggle with his same-sex urges and resorts to joining a gay conversion therapy group to save his marriage. “Greenleaf‚” a drama series about the megachurch Calvary World Ministries‚ features the story of Kevin Saterlee (Tye White) who has chosen to undergo gay conversion therapy to fight off his same-sex desires. His wife Charity Greenleaf (Deborah Joy Winans)
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A leader is a person who influences a group of people towards the achievement of a goal. The types of leaders vary but in this case‚ we will be dealing with the religious and political leaders. A religious leader is one who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body while a political leader is a person actively engaged in politics especially a full time professional member of a deliberate assembly. A political leader can also be a person who is experienced or skilled
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A commitment to values is an outstanding characteristic of all visionary leaders. They embody a sense of personal integrity‚ and radiate a sense of energy‚ vitality and will. Will is standing in a spiritual state of being. Will is a spiritual attribute‚ which allows a leader to stand for something. More self-aware and reflective than others‚ visionary leaders follow an inner sense of direction‚ and lead from the inside out‚ as exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi. He said‚ “I must first be the change
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Some people believe that leaders are born with the necessary qualities that make them successful as a leader. While others believe that leadership‚ like many other similar characteristics‚ can be learned and developed through life. For me‚ I think much of the debate depends on how you define leadership. If leadership means having an ability and desire to inspire and influence others then I can see the argument that leaders are born with leading qualities. For example when I see my sister using
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