When it comes to leaders that inspire me the most the one
who I like to think of the most is our president of the Unites States of
America, Barack Hussein Obama. World leader elected by the people of American
since 2009, and is currently serving a second term in the office. Obama inspires me as an individual due to his
educational background and strive for success.
"[Barack Obama] is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000 to Bobby Rush" (as quoted in Barack Obama, 2015, para. 1). Indeed, with such an intensive and diverse background in both education and professional experience. Obama is who I like to refer to as a born leader, and an individual that strive for success and inspires me and many other people of the world to strive for success as well.
As identified by Yukl, 2013 "Leadership is the
process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be
done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and
collective efforts to accomplish shared objective" (Para. 6). Certainly,
his leadership approach during his presidency in the white house has inspired
me to become a leader and to pursuit a Master degree, in Engineering Management
with a focus on leadership.
Since
leadership and management typically can't take place by the same person, Obama
has his subordinates to manage some of the country's financial crisis. For example, the economic policy, as
identified by Barrack Obama (2015) " In March, Obama's Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, took further steps
to manage the financial crisis, including introducing the Public-Private
Investment Program for Legacy Assets, which contains provisions for buying up
to two trillion dollars in depreciated real estate assets."
Furthermore, thinking about the video of Simon Sinek's TEDx talk and the “why” of leadership, it seems what he is communicating is if a leader change the way he or she communicate the information from inside out (starting with why, how, what) to his or her followers by first stating "why" she or he is doing what he/she is doing. That leader would most likely get more followers to follow his or her leadership. It's a simple case of reversing the standard flow of which information is shared and how the brain operates for most people. If you start with what most people wants to hear, which is "why" they're doing what they're doing. Then, you would most likely convince these individuals to follow your leadership.
Barrack
Obama. (2015, October 22). Retrieved October
24, 2015 , from Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Yukl, G. (2013). Introduction: The Nature of Leadership.
In Leadership in organizations. (8th ed., pp 7). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
Sinek, S. (2009, September 28). Start with why -- how great leaders inspire
action [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA&feature=share&list=PL42F8562DCD3CCEA8
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