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Model Female Leader Award
Introduction
Leadership qualities that influence across cultures dead or alive have qualities that inspire, direct, challenge, and effectively change the world founded in strong ethical practices. Rhodes et al, (2005) describes how “converging political, industrial, and economic characteristics” aligned to ethical leadership practices prove effective (p. 87). The following is an academic exercise – a learning task demanding critical thought, organizational aptitude, and specific objectives toward achieving a better understanding about the human experience and what distinguishes leadership qualities influencing people across cultures.
Oprah Winfrey
Billionaire Oprah Winfrey is an internationally recognized first African American billionaire. Her influence as a role model for all women arising from hosting her own internationally popular talk show since 1986 until 2011. Winfrey, as a dedicated activist of children’s rights, successfully saw President Clinton sign a bill becoming law in 1994, she proposed to Congress, creating a national database of convicted child abusers. In 2002, Oprah became the first recipient of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Bob Hope Humanitarian Award (Bio.com, 2016).
Leadership Characteristics
Leadership abilities include delegating, multi-tasking, admirable, assertive, authentic, benevolent, caring, confident, dedicated, creative, empowering, integrity, strong, talkative, perceptive, open-minded, motivates others, intelligent, planner, and builds alliances.
Key Contribution
The underlying key contribution Winfrey continues is the ability to inspire women around the world to be all they can be. A product of humble roots, she represents an example of how sheer willpower and dedication indeed presents a role model of leadership that is positive, productive, and focused on making the world wake up and create opportunities. Her influence on changing women’s attitudes about what they can accomplish continues today.
Female/Male Aspects
Feminine leadership aspects include empathetic, strength, intuitive, compassionate, verbal, and emotional. Masculine strength, focused, stubborn, and direct.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai gained international recognition when she defied Pakistani based Taliban denying females the right to an education. As a schoolgirl she survived a gunshot to her head by the Taliban that juxtaposed her to a globally influential advocate of not only women’s right to an education but of women’s human rights.
Leadership Characteristics
Sweeney and Gosfield (2016) describe Yousafzai’s honesty and directness fundamental to the young teen’s authenticity in her newfound role influencing the world on women’s rights. The leadership characteristics Yousafzai exhibits to the world in her advocacy role is ability to see the big picture, collaborative, compassion, courageous, dedicated, honest, influential, motivating, role model, intelligence, courage, humility, persuasive, resilient, honesty, a role model, and inspiring to name a few.
Key Contributions
At personal risk, and mastering persuasive influence the efforts of Yousafzai first anonymously told her story for the BBC Urdu online with her blog going viral. Nonetheless nothing changed in Pakistan as the Taliban still control where she lives. Then taking great courage she began appearing on both radio and TV and meeting foreign and national journalists – any who was willing to listen to the fact 61 million girls globally kept from accessing education. The international attention paid off as the message drew the attention of millions globally so what they heard also fell on willing ears of world leaders taking action (Sweeney & Gosfield, (2016).
Feminine/Male Aspects
Yousafzai exhibits feminine leadership characteristics that include empathy, strength of purpose, compassion, forgiving, verbal interaction, multi-tasking skills, intuitiveness, collaboration, and ability for interpersonal relationships. Her male aspects include intelligence, focused, powerful.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computers. Apple Computers under the leadership of Jobs' pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies that included the iPhone and iPad
Leadership Characteristics
Jobs leadership characteristics framed around a strong work ethic, planner, persistent, visionary, curious, change agent, disciplined, creative, motivate others, analytical resourceful, self-aware, belief in self, intuitive.
Key Contributions
Technologically speaking, Jobs business decision-making brought the world into the age of technology of the computer revolution with graphic interfacing and the mouse. Forever changing the way people listen to music, he introduced the iPod along with the industry that produces it. He redefined the idea of smart phones with the iPhone. Human interaction was another area he changed the world and how people use information (Bio.com, 2016).
Feminine/Male Aspects
Masculine aspects of his leadership include strength, focused, stubborn, and direct. The female aspects include strength, intuitive, verbal, and collaborative.
Pope Francis
The authentic humility Pope Francis characterizes in his position as leader of 1.2 billion Catholics globally, but also to non-Catholics. His position that God has redeemed all humans and not just Catholics proves an effective communication trait as a leader. His passion as a reformer proves groundbreaking with his allowing both divorced and remarried Catholics receiving communion (Zetlin, 2014).,
Leadership Characteristics
Leadership characteristics connected to Pope Francis is a long list. Benevolent, big-picture minded, caring, committed, exemplary character, fair, flexible, focused, forgiving, friendly, honest, gregarious, honest, humble, imaginative, influential, informed, inspirational, positive, practical, proficient, risk-taker, role model, sense of humor, excellent communication skills, outgoing, builds alliances, visionary, intelligent, and build alliances.
Key Contributions
His position as the leader of the oldest of the Christian denominational churches, and a fearless reformer, Pope Frances unlike his predecessors avoids being insular so that he makes himself a part of the community of the Vatican with others. His Papal purpose is to go into the streets to find what the people need and help them.
Feminine/Male Aspects
Masculine aspects of his leadership include strength, focused, stubborn, and direct. The female aspects include, empathetic, strength, intuitive, compassionate, verbal, collaborative, and emotional.
Sojourner Truth
Born a slave, Sojourner Truth took up the cause of anti-slavery as an outspoken abolitionist. After the emancipation of the millions of African American slaves she was a leading advocate for both African American and women equal rights in America (Fitch, 1993).
Leadership Characteristics
Admirable, assertive, authentic, authoritative, believes in herself, big-picture minded, bold, brave, caring, committed, constant learner, courageous, dedicated, determined, ethical excellent communicator, passionate, motivated, honest, influential, imaginative, knowledgeable, inspirational, motivated, realistic, resilient, role model, strong, self-reliant, skillful, straightforward, and sense of humor.
Key Contributions
As an abolitionist and later an advocate for African American and women equal rights Miss Truth’s influence by sharing her life story and her wisdom on these two social issues in public appearances proved a great contribution to educating Americans and toward social changes.
Feminine/Male Aspects
Feminine leadership aspects include empathetic, strength, intuitive, compassionate, verbal, and emotional. Masculine strength, focused, stubborn, and direct.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refusal to give her seat to a white passenger under the illegal Jim Crow laws of Montgomery, Alabama led to a city-wide boycott of the public bus system lasting a year. She is known as the Mother of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (History.com, 2016).
Leadership Characteristics
Admirable, assertive, authentic, believes in herself, bold, brave, caring, committed, courageous, dedicated, determined, motivated, honest, influential, knowledgeable, inspirational, motivated, realistic, resilient, role model, strong, self-reliant, skillful, straightforward.
Key Contributions
Her arrest for not giving up her seat setting off events including the boycott led to the Supreme Court decision the bus segregation was unconstitutional – in turn led to other challenges by Civil Rights supporters and activists to end racial segregation.
Feminine/Male Aspects
Feminine leadership aspects show Miss Parks empathetic, strength, compassionate and male aspects strength, focused, stubborn, and direct.
Cesar Chavez
Chavez is known as a pre-eminent Mexican-American advocate and organizer of farm labor dedicating his life to improving both wages and working conditions of one of the most exploited and poorest groups of workers in America with the largest share located in Texas.
Leadership Characteristics
Ability to delegate, multitasking, accountable, adaptable, admirable, approachable, assertive, authentic, authoritative, benevolent, believed in himself, big picture minded, bold, brave, caring, charismatic, collaborator, committed, exemplary character, fair, fearless, firm, focused, friendly , genuine, gregarious, hands on, honest, humble, informed, influential, inspirational, positive, and sense of humor are among the plethora of leadership characteristics of this truly remarkable American native son
Key Contributions
His leadership resulted in the historic nonviolent United Farmworker Union movement for farmworkers’ rights by motivating thousands of Americans and Europeans commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice and inspiring Mexican-American leadership in their efforts to rid America of discrimination. Chavez successfully led the first U.S. farmworker union to victories in gaining industry-wide farm labor contracts in the American agribusiness. In doing so, the outcome brought thousands of farm laborers respect, dignity, fair wages, pensions, medical coverages, and humane working conditions (Harrington, 2013).
Feminine/Male Aspects
Masculine aspects of his leadership include strength, focused, stubborn, and direct. The female aspects include, empathetic, strength, intuitive, compassionate, verbal, collaborative, and emotional.
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi remains known as the primary leadership of the independence movement of India from the colonial rule of England. At the same time, he is the architect of a world influential form of non-violent civil disobedience influencing other great leaders.
Leadership Characteristics
Gandhi’s leadership characteristics were emulated by both the nonviolent leadership of Cesar Chavez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who admired his ability to delegate, multitasking, accountable, adaptable, admirable, approachable, assertive, authentic, authoritative, benevolent, believed in himself, big picture minded, bold, brave, caring, charismatic, collaborator, committed, exemplary character, fair, fearless, firm, focused, friendly , genuine, gregarious, hands on, honest, humble, informed, influential, inspirational, positive, and sense of humor are among the plethora of leadership
Key Contributions
Through a lifetime of commitment Gandhi led the Indian struggle for independence from the colonial choke hold of England.
Feminine/Male Aspects
Masculine aspects of his leadership include strength, focused, stubborn, and direct. The female aspects include, empathetic, strength, intuitive, compassionate, verbal, collaborative, and emotional. Masculine aspects of his leadership include strength, focused, stubborn, and direct.
Description of the Process
The process of researching and gaining understanding of the eight leaders profiled above was about reading a lot of material but using the details of the assignment proved an invaluable experience. Leadership qualities had similar aspects among all of the eight. Rather than researching and reporting these characteristics in general this academic learning task allowed a different perspective with applying the options to real life individuals. All of these people alive or dead contributions directly was about their ability to influence the way large numbers of people in society view and behave issues challenging the world.
Model Female Leader
Bio
Elizabeth Warhorse emerges as an exceptional example of the kind of positive leadership that continues affecting global community efforts toward bridging cultural, racial, ethnic, life style, and gender gaps as never before. Born and raised on the Oglala Rose Bud Reservation in 1962, Ms. Warhorse is the great, great, great grand-daughter of Red Cloud, one of American history’s important War Chiefs at the end of the last of the cultural and racial genocide efforts of the United States in the late 1800s. Miss Warhorse is not only a national influence on the social, political, and economic reforms taking place across America, but globally.
Aristotle’s Ethical Leadership Practices Award
News Release
Today, the world congratulates Ms. Elizabeth Warhorse as the recipient of Aristotle’s Ethical Leadership Practice Award recognizing her for the groundbreaking influence she successfully achieved introducing use of the Talking Stick tradition as part of the new political, incorporation of the Talking Stick cultural tradition changed diplomatic traditions globally. The person holding the stick is allowed to present their Sacred Point of View during any recognized council. The stick is passed from person to person. Only the individual holding the Talking Stick is allowed to talk. Ms. Warhorse influence on bringing this tradition common among many of the American indigenous people cultural practices and now influencing the stringent political reforms across the nation - locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally is as much to do with her diplomatic leadership abilities as the validity of incorporating the Talking Stick as an ethical framework changing the way humanity continues evolving today in every aspect of life.
Appointed to the nonpolitically affiliated committee by an ad hoc group formed after the collapse of America’s corrupt two-party political system, Ms. Warhorse’s representation of a new and trusted van guard of reformists as never before seen in the history of the United States and spreading internationally, has inarguably brought her recognition as the recipient of the
Key Leadership Characteristics
Ms. Warhorse’s ability to see the big picture, collaborative, compassion, courageous, dedicated, honest, influential, motivating, role model, intelligence, courage, humility, persuasive, resilient, honesty, a role model, and inspiring change are key to the framework of her leadership characteristics.
Key Contributions
Among the key contributions recognized attributed to Ms. Warhorse is her ability to engender and project the ideology of ethical behavior in social, political, and economic leadership free of corruption. She has a role model of integrity, sincerity, and ideals of the best of human behavior.
References
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http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805
Bio.com. (2016). Oprah Winfrey. Retrieved from
http://www.biography.com/people/oprah-winfrey-9534419#activism-and-charit
BBC. Com. (2014). Profile: Malala Yousafzai. Retrieved from
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23241937
Fitch, S. P. (1993) "Sojourner Truth (1797(?)-1883), Legendary Anti-Slavery and Woman's Rights Agitator." Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 421-29, 1993.
Harrington, J. (2013). César Chávez's legacy is a lesson in guidance, leadership. Retrieved from http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Cesar-Ch-vez-s-legacy-is-a-lesson-in-guidance-4395539.php
History.com. (2016). Rosa Parks. Retrieved from http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks
Rhodes, D. L., Emery, C. R., Tian, R. G., Shurden, M. C., Tolbert, S. H., Oertel, S., & Antonova, M. (2005). A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Leader Ethics. Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict, 9(1), 87.
Zetlin, M. (2014). Why Pope Francis Is So Effective: 8 Lessons for Every Leader. Retrieved from http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/why-pope-francis-is-so-effective-8-lessons-for-every-leader.html
