Leader Essay Examples

Alexander Chapman Ferguson, known as Alex Ferguson, was born in 1941, in Govan Glasgow Scotland. As a teenager he was working as a tool’s apprentice in his father shipyard then in his 19, he became a labor union activist and an active member of the “Labor Party”. As far as Ferguson’s “the football player” career…

Assertiveness means advocating your views without violating or hurting the rights of others. It is appropriately direct, open, and honest communication, which is self enhancing and expressive.” Assertiveness requires a change in attitude as well as a change in behavior. Our interaction is normally determined by social status. Being assertive helps our voices, opinions, views…

This essay will compare and 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…

There have been an age long debate, and humans since beginning of time, have tried to come up with an answer to this question – Are Leaders born or are they made?. This question has generated an age long debate, which in turn has resulted in various school of thoughts, some believe that leaders are…

John Gokongwei is the founder of Cebu Pacific, a Filipino airline company started in 2005. Cebu Pacific is one of the most recognised airline companies in the Philippines. John Gokongwei is a great rags to riches story of how he started entrepreneurship out of poverty. He also is a active philantrophist and donates millions to…

According to Kotter (1990), there are distinct differences between management and leadership. Management focuses on handling complexity, while leadership focuses on managing change. Companies address complexity through three methods. Firstly, managers create short-term goals through planning and budgeting, considering the rapidly changing business environment. Secondly, organizing and staffing is carried out to establish the company’s…

Leaders, by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, was written after the two went through extensive studies, interviews, and observations to come to the conclusions found in this book. Knowing the average leader’s troubles with constant demands in everyday life, Bennis and Nanus came up with four strategies for leading organizations effectively in these complex times….

Jimmy Hoffa, the influential leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouseman, and Helpers of America disappeared under mysterious circumstances on July 30, 1975. Many believed that his vanishing was connected to the Mafia but the truth remains unknown. Hoffa played a significant role as a mediator between the legitimate world and…

The media has a significant impact on international politics, both positively and negatively. The Vietnam War is an example of its negative influence. However, there are cases where the media provides comfort to Filipinos in the US during violent situations in their home country. Politicians and politics are greatly influenced by the media, as it…

 This paper seeks to defend the proposition that leaders are made not born[1] first by defining and understanding the concept of leadership, including an analysis the factors or elements for its existence as well as the theories that would explain their origin, the leadership models that would explain the behavior of the leader and the…