Leadership Role Models paper (1-2 page)

· Identify three leadership role models. These leaders can be living or deceased; business or non- business; even prior bosses for any team member. I prefer the role models NOT come from entertainment or sports. Each team will write a 5 – 6 page paper addressing the following questions.

1. Why are they role models?

2. What are the key personal attributes of these leaders, and how do the attributes make them a better leader? (An attribute is defined as a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something.)

3. What is the dominant leadership style of each role model, and how is the style manifested? Identify a secondary style if appropriate.

4. What are three key insights about leadership your team learned from working on this assignment?

Jay Shetty

1. Why are they role models? Comment by Kelley Shae: I will do these

· After meeting a monk when he was 18, Jay switched his life perspective to fulfilling a life of service, impact, and passion as opposed to money, fame, and power. For three years after shadowing and living with a monk, he helped build sustainable villages, food programs distributing over 1 million meals per day and coached millennials across the world about consciousness, wellbeing, and success. He now works with the biggest brands in the world. He has been invited to keynote at leading companies including Google, L’Oreal, Facebook, Coca Cola, HSBC, EY, Microsoft and Accenture. In 2016 he won the ITV Asian Media Award for Best Blog and came 3rd in the Guardian Rising Star Award in 2015.

2. What are the key personal attributes of these leaders, and how do the attributes make them a better leader? (An attribute is defined as a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something.):

Some of his key personal attributes include:

· Helps people find their passion and purpose.

· Shares positive messages via Youtube and at Conferences.

· Self-manages by waking up early through regulating his time, regulates his attention, emotions, and is aware of his strengths, weaknesses and potential sources of bias.

· Flexible in his mindset to trying new approaches and ideas

· Focuses on the future

· Maintains a positive outlook in everything

· Is an effective communicator

· Has visions for the future

· Fosters creativity

· Creates long lasting relationships

All of these attributes has made him a better leader because they shape his character into a charismatic, dedicated, loyal, honest individual which has resulted in him gaining world success. He started from nothing, and now has a huge platform and would not have been able to get there without having these key attributes.

3. What is the dominant leadership style of each role model, and how is the style manifested? Identify a secondary style if appropriate.

· Jay Shetty is a Charismatic leader. He influences others through power of personality. He acts energetically, and motivates others to move forward. He inspires tons of passion, and believes in himself wholeheartedly.

Mahatma Gandhi

1. Why are they role models?

· Mahatma Gandhi helped lead India’s independence from Great Britain with movements of nonviolence and empowerment to the people of India. One of the most remarkable accomplishments of Gandhi was motivating the people of India to take the power into their own hands. He did this through sheer humbleness, connecting and relating to the people of India. Gandhi voluntarily lived in poverty. This was huge because most of India’s population is in poverty. He wanted to show the people of India that you do not need status to make a difference. He wanted to show that our greatest weapon was just being human. He wanted to show that although he is this great inspirational leader, that he is really no different from anyone else, that anyone can make a difference in the world.

2. What are the key personal attributes of these leaders, and how do the attributes make them a better leader? (An attribute is defined as a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something.)

· Some key personal attributes of Mahatma Gandhi that contributed to him being a great leader was his honesty, good faith, persistency, patience, humbleness, and his strong vision to guide him in his process of making a change in the world. With these attributes, anything was possible for him and through these attributes; he was able to show that everyone can do the same. That is quite remarkable If you think about it. That is why he was such a great leader. He was able to empower and motivate people; by relating and connecting with them

3. What is the dominant leadership style of each role model, and how is the style manifested? Identify a secondary style if appropriate.

· Mahatma Gandhi was one of the world’s most renowned transformational leaders with an impact that lives on till this day. This style of leadership was manifested with him due to his ability to relate to other people making them feel no different from himself. This motivated people and made them feel confident and powerful. It’s because of this ability of empowerment that enabled Mahatma Gandhi to be one of the most successful transformational leaders the world has ever known. His act of nonviolence and overwhelming forgiveness spoke volume to the world and influences people to take the high road and to just be an overall better person. If he could do it, you could do it. An eye for an eye will only make the world blind. So do not stoop down the level of your enemies, instead make them come up to your level and the world will evolve. These are the kind of things that Mahatma Gandhi stood for and would die for.

Theodore Roosevelt

1. Why are they role models?

Theodore Roosevelt is known for his many accomplishments such as the Battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, becoming the youngest U.S. President, and negotiating the end of the Russo-Japan War. However his many accomplishments are not what make TR a role model, but rather how he went about conquering these feats. As a child he was frail, asthmatic and near-sighted, resulting in his homeschooling. His father once told him, “Theodore you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should.” TR decided to build a home gym where he could begin a strenuous routine of boxing, weight lifting, rowing, and hiking (The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, 2014). Truly, this molded him into the role model he would grow up to be; intolerant to anything but one’s best effort. Many people, young and old, can look up to our 26th president and how deeply he would commit his time and effort to any task, big or small.

2. What are the key personal attributes of these leaders, and how do the attributes make them a better leader?

Some key personal attributes that made Theodore Roosevelt a superior leader was his strong work ethic, compassion, and fairness. Roosevelt’s work ethic was forged as a child and young adult which lead to his mantra of deep work. When presented a task he would focus only on that single task with his fullest attention and intensity. A good example of this was how he would study as a freshman at Harvard. According to his personal diary and letters he would schedule his day from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm making sure to include all his classes, daily physical activities, and lunch. He would then use the time between to study, dedicating anything after 4:30 pm for personal interests and hobbies. Most students could not do this simply because this only left a couple of hours, split throughout the morning and evening, to finish school work. However, due to Theodore studying with his fullest attention and intensity he finished the year with honors in 5 of 7 classes (Feloni, 2016).

On top of this he was a compassionate and fair man which was apparent in his political views and accomplishments. An example of this is his addition to the Monroe Doctrine with the Roosevelt Corollary in 1904. This essentially stated the United States would act with military force if there were any flagrant wrongdoings in the western hemisphere, such as not paying back international creditors or inviting foreign aggression (U.S. Department of State, 2017). Another example of his compassion and fairness is how he aimed to dismantle large trusts and monopolies, allowing domestic small businesses to compete. These actions directly backed his use of the term Square Deal which he described as, “I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service” (Britannica, 2017).

These three key attributes of strong work ethic, compassion, and fairness all contributed to making TR a better leader. His strong work ethic inspired his colleagues and followers, and added much credibility to his name. His compassion allowed for him to view situations in different perspectives, and build mutual trust with the American people. Lastly his fairness enabled him to make ethical decisions and changes, as well as building even more mutual trust.

3. What is the dominant leadership style of each role model, and how is the style displayed? Identify a secondary style if appropriate.

Theodore Roosevelt’s dominant leadership style was a transformational style. His “Great Man” traits allowed him to charismatically win people over by creating a shared vision the majority of the country could support. Through voice and action he would accentuate how important it was to be aware of right and wrong. Through voice he would repetitively mention his coined term “Square Deal”, or his ever so famous quote, “speak softly, but carry a big stick”. This all directly transcended into his actions of distinguishing between right and wrong such as cracking down on unfair monopolies, setting aside 230 million acres of land to be preserved, and sending a fleet on naval destroyers on a world tour to show the United States would act almost as the world police (The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, 2014). Another way Roosevelt displayed his transformational leadership was through his method of “wandering around”. TR would frequently, “venture into tenements, naval shipyards, and all levels of government to visit both staff and citizens. He wanted to convey the message that he was willing to go everywhere and do everything that he expected of his staff” (Allen, 2017).

Works Cited

Allen, Kelly. “Teddy Roosevelt's Legendary Leadership.” Science in Our World Certainty and

Controversy, Penn State University, 11 Feb. 2017, sites.psu.edu/leaderfoundationsdobbs /2017/02/11/u01-teddy-roosevelts-legendary-leadership/

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Square Deal.” Encyclopædia Britannica,

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 18 May 2017, www.britannica.com/event/Square-Deal.

Feloni, Richard. “Theodore Roosevelt Used This Productivity Trick to Get More Done in a

Couple Hours than Most People Do in a Day.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 19 Jan.

2016, www.businessinsider.com/theodore-roosevelt-productivity-trick-2016-1.

“Milestones 1899-1913.” U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of State, 9 May 2017,

history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/roosevelt-and-monroe-doctrine.

“The Life of Theodore Roosevelt.” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior,

9 Oct. 2014, www.nps.gov/thri/theodorerooseveltbio.htm.

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