Us management and leadership: Barack Obama's leadership

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Barack Obama has been the source of a great deal of criticism while running for the US presidency. His ability to lead America as the next president has often been contested on a variety of subjects by his opponents. The main reasons used to criticize Obama by his opponent are his lack of experience as a politician, his young age (46 years old), his abstract political program that lacks details and the fact that he would not be "representative enough" considering the US population majority. Despite all this shadows on his candidature, he succeeds to move the crowds. His leadership and his conviction behind his words seem to be different than many other politicians, giving him the key of the power. In all the previous elections, it seems obvious that only "leadership" was a driving quality that all Americans were seeking for their president (Brookhiser, 2007). This notion can be defined as the following: "The first job of a leader is to define a vision for an organization; leadership is the capacity to translate a vision into reality."(Warren Bennis, President, University of Cincinnati, University of Maryland, symposium Jan 21ST 1988) We will see all along this paper why the criticism over Barack Obama's candidature has no influence and why we can say that his leadership does exist.

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[...] He is not afraid to admit his own shortcomings and delegate those issues that fall out of his breath of knowledge to others who are more informed on the subject Barack Obama's sources of power To summarize Obama's sources of power, we can identify his traits of personality, his behavior as well as analyze the situation. All those elements seem to be linked to the perception the voters have from who he is am a black guy called Barack Obama and who wants to become president. Hope is needed for that.” Obama and what he is willing to accomplished, his perseverance more than based on facts and concrete results. [...]

[...] Conclusion Obama appears as an impressive leader thanks to his communication skills and a new vision for his country, offering the CHANGE as a rupture with the traditional political system, the established bureaucracy and a global tendency to not care about its people. Also thanks to his charisma and style reminding to his predecessor running for the Oval Circle, JFK, he has succeeded to get people involved in politics again. Bibliography Mike Dorning (18 January). Management style is substance of debate: Dems spar over how they would run office. McClatchy - Tribune Business News.Retrieved March from ABI/INFORM Dateline database. (Document ID: 1414771711). “Vouching for Obama Days later Democratic presidential nominee Sen. [...]

[...] It may not be instantly obvious what the private selection of a business chief executive by a board of directors has in common with the public election of a political chief executive by a national vote. The commonality is leadership. [...]

[...] Today, Barack Obama's competitors reproach him on his lack of experience, particularly in foreign policy. He counters those critiques by citing the facts that the so-called “experienced Good judgment trumps long experience. Obama (Kuhn) people” were those that authorized this war in Iraq. Obama has turned their negative attacks into a positive for him. On this point, his oral skills had been enough to discredit all the comments about this “not-enough-experience” when he answered those attacks by saying that “Good judgment trumps long experience.” In addition, history had proven that young people with very little experience in politics succeeded to become great leaders, such as: - Thomas Jefferson. [...]

[...] His wife also plays an important role, for her image of potential first black lady coming from a very popular family. If she succeeded so far and supported so well her husband's candidacy, it is because of her hard work and her talent. Once more the Obama's family constitutes a model which inspires people. Added to those factors, it constitutes a source of power as a referent leader. He incarnates the diversity and the integration of differences, as he gives the image of a possible symbiosis between the populations. [...]