Adam Garone is co-founder of the Movember movement. He serves as CEO of this nonprofit agency; whose goal is to bring awareness to men’s health relative to prostate cancer research. Movember was started from a challenge Garone received from his brother to grow a mustache. In addition to growing it for stylishness, both decided it could be used as a way to raise a much-needed awareness. Its awareness and fund raising success has touched many lives. Garone’s effort, simply stated on Ted.com (2012), attests to how the legacy of this leader is certainly established through the personal memories this movement creates:
The Movember challenge is simple: men begin November 1st clean shaven and for the next 30 days, grow out their moustaches while seeking out sponsorship for their efforts. The proceeds go to the Prostate Cancer Foundation as well as Livestrong. In 2011, Movember raised $126 million in 14 countries.
His leadership characteristics include ambition, compassion, and determination. After successfully becoming a global nonprofit and Movember becoming an annual tradition, Adam Garone was inspired to include women’s health, and successfully forged a fundraising partnership for breast cancer research.
However; during the agency’s growth, his participative and supportive style of leadership was challenged. Garone ambitiously approached the Prostate Cancer Foundation, asking to create a partnership together. The foundation refused him. However, in less than a year, Garone’s nonprofit donated $ 54,000.00 to the foundation; which ended up being the largest donation the organization had ever received. Remaining attentive to his standards of excellence, Mr. Garone powerfully displayed his achievement-oriented leadership style, and is a welcomed contributor.
Education and Leadership
Geoffrey Canada is the head of the Harlem Children’s Zone. The educational institute, named by Canada, provides assistance to kids from birth through college, with one main goal; to break the cycle of poverty. Geoffrey Canada grew up in poverty himself; however, he received a bachelors and masters in education from Harvard. This is when he decided to dedicate himself to ensuring others in the same situation had the same opportunity. His leadership characteristics include intelligence and inspiration, with deep-seated human values and compassion. He is the recipient of many awards that forms his legacy, including one of “America’s Best Leaders” (US News and World Reports), and as TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. The NY Times (2010) quoted the following:
Your most beloved baby brother becomes ill. What at first seems like a normal childhood sickness does not go away or get better after a few days. After visiting doctor after doctor and numerous specialists, none of whom can give you a diagnosis or guidance on how to help him, you feel hopeless. You watch helplessly while your brother continues to get sicker and sicker. You begin to fear for his life. What would you do? Whom would you turn to? For many, the answer is St. Jude Children’s Hospital. St. Jude Children’s Hospital is a non-profit ‘pediatric treatment and research facility... [that] completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases” (About St. Jude). St. Jude Children’s Hospital offers vital hope to many children who were considered lost causes. Summer Wilson is one such example. Summer was a five-week old preemie infant with a very rare cancer. Summer’s doctors did not have any answers for her condition. Summer’s mother Deanna Wilson remembers, “The best case scenario that we were given was to take [Summer] home and love her… she’s not going to make it” (Stump). This was the cataclysmic and devastating consensus of the local doctors. Miraculously, Summer did make it; St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital saved her. Summer is now seventeen years old and thriving, because St Jude’s saved her when others could not. St. Jude Children’s Hospital touches many lives, not just of the children it treats, but also the families who love these children, and the communities these families come from. St Jude Children’s Hospital is an amazing story of love, inspiration, and leadership. Today, I will examine five key pillars of leadership as they specifically relate to this orga...
Out of all the pillars, I would like to think that I exemplify the traits of leadership the best. One reason I believe that I exemplify these traits is because I promote school activities and clubs. Being apart of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), I have been able to encourage some of my fellow classmates to join this organization. At FBLA our main goal is to promote business while learning to be successful and good leaders. Learning to be a good leader has enabled me to be a leader in the classroom, and outside of school.
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. As a child, Oprah spent her early childhood with her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee while Oprah’s mom, Venita moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Venita wanted to become more stable and would eventually come for Oprah. While Oprah lived with her grandmother, Oprah flourished she learned how to read and write at the age of 3. By the time she started kindergarten at the age of 5, Oprah was moved to the first grade. Unfortunately, at the age of 6, Oprah’s grandmother Hattie Mae Lee became very ill. Oprah moved to Milwaukee, WI to live with her mom. They were very poor and lived on welfare. Not having enough time to give to her children, Oprah’s mom sent her to live with her dad, Vernon Winfrey, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Leadership is a quality which cannot be acquired by any person from the other but it can be acquired by self-determination of a person. Leadership can best be called the personality of the very highest ability-whether in ruling, thinking, imagining, innovation, warring, or religious influencing. Leadership is practiced not so much in words a it is in attitude and in actions. Their actions leave a long lasting memory in the line of history and lead up to may events that occur today. To be a leader one will need many qualities. Leaders have a purpose and strategies to accomplish that purpose. They are driven and motivated. In the end they should be able to attain good results. These innate talents help to make up a leader that will succeed and be efficient in carrying out tasks. But, the purpose of this paper is determine what truly makes a leader successful. A successful leader should be considered more on their impact rather than their accomplishments of their organizations alone for they are not sufficient in determining the key to their success .
Throughout history, there have been great leaders: civil rights leaders, business leaders, and spiritual leaders who have inspired millions. Leaders and visionaries such as John Lennon or Martin Luther King Jr. fought for unity, love, and made an impact on people through their speeches or songs. Watching these great men touch the hearts of millions has brought out a desire for me to become a C.E.O. and an important leader in the life of others. Not only do leaders have knowledge in politics, in emotional values, and spread a certain message or “vision” to their followers or co-workers, but they have certain special characteristics which make them great leaders or heroes. So, what makes these people different from you and me? Could it be that they are better looking? Perhaps they speak in parables or give great speeches? People have often said to me that a good leader is a person who guides both physically and mentally. Going to the job shadowing program has given me an opportunity to broaden my view on how efficient and effective a good leader can be in the work place. Something that has been shown to me in my many interviews with the board of directors has been that every leader must have the capability to have integrity, listen, a vision, and must be responsible.
1. When it comes to problem solving, non-profit organizations is less concerned with the cost of a solution than a for profit organization.
When we think of leadership, many people may think of current or former presidents. They could also think of their boss at work or coach from whatever sport they participated in throughout grade school and college. What were the traits that distinguished them for their role as a leader? One of the most common traits that exist in many areas is that leaders are typically males. Even looking back in history leadership roles where highly monopolized by male figures. Washington, Napoleon, and even God is identified as male. One of the most resistant areas that this discrimination exists in is the military and more so the Marine Corps. It is important to develop an understanding of the benefits of equally
Throughout 2016, many different people will claim they can lead America to greatness again just as they do each election year. This directs attention towards leadership, and most Americans simply trust that these potential candidates display leadership characteristics. Unfortunately, politicians don’t always exemplify leadership, and many Americans experience poor leaders daily such as dreadful bosses. Because of these commonplace experiences, leadership may not appear as a direct character trait. Adaptable communication, the ability to inspire, a clear passion, and professional attitudes all characterize a true leader.
Our leadership in this world has changed and affected us greatly. Leadership is being about to lead an organization with many people and to have control in the right way. “ The Leader of the Future” a book by Peter F. Drucker gives us information on why and how it is to be such a great leader. We need better leaders and we need them to guide us and help us along the way. Without leadership, our world would be in such danger and we America would be going through a lot.
Warren Bennis’s leadership theories from On Becoming a Leader serve as a guide to understanding the qualities sand strategies that great leaders often exemplify. Classic leaders like Hillary Clinton have vision, passion, and integrity. These three things are the basic ingredients that Bennis proposes that most great leaders have in common. These are all aspects of leadership that allow people to better understand themselves and the world around them. In Hillary’s case, it is because of her determination to take the lead on different social issues around the world as a prominent figurehead that has allow me to take a closer...
Perhaps the most important qualities of a leader are passion and motivation. Especially when leading a group for a particular cause, a leader must be personally attached to that cause. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for example, is a legendary leader because he fought for a cause that directly affected him. had he not been pushing for a personal reason, his actions would not have been as passionate. This would have caused a lack in motivation, another essential leadership quality. A leader faces many roadblocks and opposition and thus, must be motivated to continue fighting and leading. A leader’s attitude and opinions are valued by the group and therefore, if a leader is motivated, the group will be, too. The continued actions and successes, no matter how small, which move the group closer to its goal also help its motivation and drive.
Traits of a good leader are trustworthiness, respectfulness, honesty, and be stern. When you have leaders that take their role seriously, you can form a backbone to an organization that cannot be broken. You have born leaders and you have trained leaders. Martin Luther King was a natural born leader for the Civil Rights movement. King saw there was something that needed to be changed and he took the steps to change the world.
Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence, motivate and inspire others (Gill, 2006). It is therefore defined as a process whereby a leader influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2013). A leader has to make a decision for something to happen and provide his followers with clear direction (Rost et al, 1991). It will evoke feelings of challenge, excitement and involvement for the followers to proceed with the task (Gill, 2006).
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Leadership is essentially the ability to motivate. An effective leader can motivate others toward reaching a common goal. Leaders are different than managers in that leaders inspire others to do the work needed while managers generally tend to manage the tasks associated with completing the goal.