Compare And Contrast Harriet Clifford's Leadership Style

COMPARISON AND SYNTHESIS OF LEADERSHIP STYLES

Leaders who have shaped nursing were defined by their style and strategy in how they lead, governed, and achieved results. Each leader left a signature to their style of leadership to which we look, ponder and desire to emulate in out practice. Of those leaders, Harriet Tubman from Historical times and Joyce Clifford in our contemporary age were exemplary in their leadership. Although Harriet Tubman was a servant leader in style, Joyce Clifford was a transformational leader, both were successful in promoting freedom, brought change to the systems and to the people they served.

Leadership Styles

Servant Leader:

Merriam Webster defines leadership as “the office or position of a leader”, “capacity

Harriet Tubman had a vision to be free from slavery. Having been born to slave parents, she experienced the agony of losing a few of her family members to slavery ("Constitutional Rights Foundation," 2000). This paved a way for numerous selfless bravery actions. For example, on several occasions, she smuggled over 300 slaves underground along the railway line (Hall, 2003). As a servant leaders, she established and maintained relationships with a chain of free blacks who were constantly in touch with the boat sailors. These contacts assisted with safe transfers across the waters (Wyels, 2013).

Secondly, Tubman was aware of her position and all that encompassed the challenges of being a slave. It is the awareness which made her resists and rebelled against the status quo. Borrowed from the adage that the wearer of shoes knows where it hurts most, the stand point as a slave girl disturbed and awakened a deep need to to free (Chism, 2005). As event unfolded, the suspicion of being sold to the south provided a an opportunity to disappear ro New York. While in New York, she made connections with those seeking to end slavery and finally made it to Canada which became her base (Chism,