...Colin Powell is a great speaker. I really enjoy watching this video. He gave such an encouragement to continue on in being great leaders. One of the ideas that I enjoy the most is when he stated, “Have a purpose.” He continued on explaining that an organization needs to have “a sense of purpose what are we here for.” This statement is extremely important in organizations today because companies can start focusing on making money instead on helping improving the community, “the society.” If companies start with the purpose of selling a video that helps others learn how to read, then they should only continue on selling and improving the video, not selling the video in a higher price with advertisement with lessons not pertaining to how to read....
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...States is seven years removed. Colin Powell has just retired as Chairman of the Chief Joints of Staff and decorated as a war hero in the Persian Gulf War, Desert Storm and is relaxing in his place of residence in Palm Beach, Florida. All of the sudden while watching TV, a big loud thunderous crash is heard and Powell runs to the back yard to see what is going on. As he reaches the back yard, a funny looking vessel is sitting in his rose garden. As he goes to open the hatch, he is sucked in and bam, in the speed of light he is transformed back in time. After re-landing in the middle of a road, Powell opens the door to complete darkness and woods. The next thing that Powell sees is two men on horseback saying the British are coming, the British are coming. He stops one rider and Powell asks who are you and what year is it? The man replied, “ I am Sir Paul Revere and it is in the year of the our Lord 1777. Could this be, could he have stepped back into time, why him, why now? Colin starts walking and finally after two miles of bare and naked road, Powell stubbles upon a farm house and walked up to the door and knocks. “Who is thou at thyest door?” shouted from the house. Colin replies, “I am General Powell from the United States Amry.” The patriot upons the door and is startled by the appearance of the man. Holding a latern and dressed in Revolutionary style uniform, the guy eventually allows Powell to enter into his home. He asks Powell who he is and where he came from...
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...Colin Powell MGT 230 Colin Powell Paper General Colin Powell is a retired Joint Chiefs of Staff and over the last decade or two is considered an exceptional leader. Many people in all walks of life and industry admire him and try to look to him for inspiration when leading people in calm moments and in crisis situations. He has shown his leadership abilities during war and times of peace. He has a wealth of knowledge and insight as a leader and can help anyone who is striving to be a people manager or is currently in any position of managing people. It does not matter what setting or situation you are managing in, his experiences will translate. Slide One As I read through the Colin Powell leadership slides provided I found three of them that really remind me of situations I found my self in at one time or another. The Lesson One slide I can really relate to the quote that General Powell uses. I have been in retail management for 17 years and I have had the opportunity to manage hundreds of employees, managers, and supervisors. Whether a manger realizes it or not, being a manager does not only mean you lead people under your direct supervision, but you also have to manage your co-managers and superiors above you. This is especially true in a corporate setting. Good leadership does not mean you have to please everyone around you. There will be times when you have to make difficult decisions. Recently, I found myself in a situation in which I had to make a difficult...
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...Colin Powell: A Leader of Leaders Otis V. Rockmore LDR/300 May 20, 2013 Frank Futyma Colin Powell: A Leader of Leaders In choosing an individual to report on, I wanted to find someone that I could identify with and relate to on some level. With this in mind and having served 20 years in the military and understanding its dynamics, the obvious choice was to choose a military leader. With so many great leaders to choose from, I wanted to choose an individual that demonstrated the ability to be a successful leader in the private or political arena as well. After researching various leaders that had accomplished such task, I chose Colin L. Powell. Colin L Powell was born April 5 1937 in Harlem, New York. He is a United States statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving under President George W. Bush. He was the first African American appointed to that position. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) (“Colin Powell”, 2013). Leader According to Hughes, Ginnett, and Curphy (2009), leadership has various definitions that differ in many ways. One states that leadership can be defined as “Directing and coordinating the work of group members” and the other states it as “The process by which an agent induces a subordinate to behave in a desired manner (Chapter 1). While these...
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...Colin Powell Colin Powell is a very accomplished man he has had many accomplishments in his lifetime, but exactly how many? One of his most known accomplishments is that he was a four star general for the U.S. Army. Colin Powell chose to attend the City College of New York. He then joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) while he was in college. In his ROTC unit he earned the rank of commander not to long after he joined the ROTC unit. He graduated as a cadet colonel the highest rank. Powell was experienced with the Corps that guided him to a carrier in the military. He then joined the Army for the U.S. as a second lieutenant. Colin Powell was a very accomplished man. That gave all his effort into all his work. Colin Powell...
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...Second, leadership is “goal directed.” A leader’s actions are purposeful, and center on assisting a certain group to attain specific achievements. Lastly, “the presence of leaders assumes some form of hierarchy within a group.” That hierarchy can be strictly influenced by one commanding officer, or it can be loose and informal, with many voices being heard. If you Google Colin Powell, words like success, power, and influence appear bold and demanding throughout every page. More importantly is how often the word leadership shines through. Unlike the many other powerful adjectives used to define him, the word leader is apparent in each and every search result of his name. Powell himself states “a successful leader is somebody who has the ability to inspire followers,” and inspire, he does. Having been a professional soldier for over three decades, Powell started from the bottom and rose through the ranks, eventually holding leadership positions such as platoon leader, second lieutenant, and general. Despite the many injuries he received while in battle, including a nearly fatal helicopter crash, Powell strived and survived, saving lives of his fellow soldiers along the way....
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...GEN (R) Powell military strategy is centered around utilizing the appropriate military force necessary to achieve a decisive victory. My American Journey is the life story of General (retired) Colin Luther Powell; the man who created the Powell Doctrine method applying military force. The Powell Doctrine based largely on the “Weinberger Doctrine” consist of a series of questions identifying the conditions that should be met before committing U.S. forces to battle. GEN (R) Colin L. Powell served two combat tours in Vietnam, White House Fellow, Commanding General V Corps, National Security Advisor and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. My American Journey is his memoir of all of the lessons learned throughout his career however, it is his experience in Vietnam which leads him to develop the Powell Doctrine....
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...CWRU ESSAYS: 500 Words Each 1. Describe your motivation for pursuing the MBA degree. How does it advance your short-term and long-term goals? How have your academic, career, and life experiences prepared you for this program? What strengths will you bring, and what knowledge and insights are you hoping to develop during the program? If you have any concerns about your application, please address them here. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work” - General Colin Powell. Talking Points: 1st PARARGRAPH: 1st Two Parts of Statement. - Further career 1. Over 24 months ago, I made significant career change, from being an American History Instructor at a military school to a career in medical device sales. 2. Will allow me to move away from Sales and into Corporate side of industry 3. I believe that supplementing my current education and work experience with a top-notch graduate business education will help to eventually elevate me to an executive position within the corporate medical device world. - Academic, career, and life experiences 1. VMI - My experiences at VMI not only prepared me for my career, it prepared me both for life in and outside of my career. - My degree represents not only the acumen in my course of study but in many facets of leadership - VMI forces its graduates to face challenges that I never thought I would come across and in turn, allowed me to...
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...War on Terrorism Case Study Analysis GM530 Managerial Decision Making Week6 Assignment Keller Graduate School of Management Ravi Murugan February 14 2011 Prof. Marc Friedman Discuss the different decision personalities/styles advising Bush. Bush’s war cabinet consisted of a select group of senior administration officials. They were George Bush, Richard Cheney, Andrew Card, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Robert Mueller, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Henry Shelton, Paul O’Neill, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Armitage who held secret meetings for weeks and had experience in foreign affairs. Five of these people planned and executed the Persian Gulf War with bush’s father and so had his trust (Cheney, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz and Armitage). For our personalities discussion I am selecting just the key persons who were advising or feeding input on different matters. i) George W. Bush: He prefers to lead by setting a broad direction and delegating responsibilities to trusted subordinates and leans heavily on his advisors. He is careful in his selection and chooses loyal people who are given goals and left to work on it. His lack of foreign policy experience contributed to his heavy reliance on his counsel and advisors. He knew how to delegate authority and hold people accountable for their responsibilities and authority. He listened more and then made a decision, which he stands firm to. He is more of not the details oriented person but draw a clear outline...
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...religious or other varying factors that may influence a persons’ ethical outlook or approach on leadership, the same remains constant in regards to their style. The influence they exemplify is a visibly and intentionally role modeling ethical behavior (Hughes, 2014 p.166). Leading by who you are rather than your title. An informal leader is someone within an organization or work unit who, by virtue of how he or she is perceived by his peers (or others in the organization) seen as worthy of paying attention to, or following. People may be willing to follow the informal group leader due to their social ties, longevity within the organization, or a well developed level of misplaced trust in the formal leader or general work place atmosphere. Colin Powell would be great example of a character-based leader. During his career in the military he was focused on the mission at hand and the sense of responsibility he undertook as a leader to fulfil the mission he entrusted to complete while protecting the lives of those he commanded. A leader understands that the world is not perfect and those unknown obstacles...
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...“Alpha”, I was introduced to various foreign languages, the sciences, business and arts. In fact, in my second year of school, I juggled both Spanish and French. As such, it came has no surprise that a love of languages developed. I have attained the ability to flourish in an unfamiliar environment. Last summer, for example, I was employed by the Jamaica Defence Force and assigned to the Pharmacy within the Medical Company. I had no prior knowledge or experience, yet I was able to satisfactorily complete my tasks. I have been told I am a good listener and a moderately good speaker. These characteristics will aid me in my chosen field. “A dream doesn't become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination and hard work.” - Colin Powell. I believe that one must work hard in order to make one’s dream a reality. I plan to become a Medical Scientist who carries out “ground breaking” research that will shed light on currently confounding illnesses. To that end, I will use software simulations to aid my research. As such, I swear to uphold and exceed all that is expected of a future medical scientist, supporting the progress of medicine and...
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...Leadership Clifford Hedges McKendree University Abstract Leaders need to be knowledgeable in a wide array of subjects in order to lead their organization in the right direction. It is unfeasible to require all employees and leaders to know everything within the organization, but leaders must possess an expertise of their organization skills to fully lead. A leader develops expertise by having facts that derive from experience, training and education. Possessing knowledge better allows you as a leader to increase mental agility, exercise sound judgment and employ skills necessary to solve organizations problems. Leadership Leadership evolves overtime, the time from when you are born to the time that you die. It can be positive or negative it depends on the way you as a person are brought up. As complex leadership may be, having been in the military gives me a slight advantage in understanding leadership. So what is leadership? Leadership is the way that you motivate or influence an individual to accomplish a mission. My leadership style is task-oriented and relationship-oriented. Leaders influence subordinates, peers, and organizations to accomplish a mission or common goal. Army Doctrine Reference Publication 6-22 defines six competencies and attributes that form the leadership requirement model. (United States Army, 2012) These competencies and attribute are what a leader ‘is’ and ‘does’. They isolate how leaders effectively influence by defining formal...
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...Colin Luther Powell was born on April 5, 1937 in Harlem, New York. The child of Jamaican foreigners Luther and Maud Powell, Colin was brought up in the South Bronx. Powell was taught in the New York City state funded schools, and moved on from Morris High School in 1954 with no unmistakable arrangements for where he needed to go in life. It was at City College of New York, where Powell considered topography, that he discovered his calling—in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). He soon got to be officer of his unit. This experience set him on a military vocation and gave him structure and heading in his life. After graduation in 1958, Powell was dispatched as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Armed force. While positioned at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, Colin Powell met Alma Vivian Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, and they wedded in 1962. The couple now has three kids: child Michael, and little girls Linda and Annemarie. That same year, he was one of 16,000 guides sent to South Vietnam by President John Kennedy. In 1963, Powell was injured by a punji-stick booby trap while watching the Vietnamese-Laotian fringe. Amid this first voyage through obligation, he was recompensed a Purple Heart and, after a year, a Bronze Star....
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...is now married to Cynthia Kelley, who was a juror in the civil suit he brought against the City of Los Angeles for a beaten he had taken that he is known allegedly known for. On March 2, 1991, King was driving on Interstate 210 in San Fernando Valley located in Los Angeles along with two passengers, Bryant Allen and Freddie Helms. King, Allen, and Helms had just left drinking at a friend house in L.A. King had been pursued by Officer Tim and Melanie Singer, a married team of the California Highway Patrol, for speeding. King refused to pull the car over because a DUI would violate his parole for a previous robbery conviction. Several police cars and a helicopter had joined the pursuit, officers cornered King’s car. Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno, and Rolando Solano were the first five LAPD officers to arrive at the scene. King, Allen, and Helms were ordered by Officer Tim Singer to exit the vehicle and lie face down on the ground. Allen and Helms obeyed...
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...Erin Berkheimer Mrs. Wyllie English IV 21 February 2014 Research Outline I. Thesis: The changing settings in the novel Pride and Prejudice have various effects on the relationships between the characters, especially influencing their affection for one another, and this makes the novel eternally relatable, interesting, and important in understanding human nature and development. II. Body Paragraph #1: Relatability a. Quote #1: “From its immortal opening sentence, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,” Pride and Prejudice has enchanted readers around the world, in every language, for 200 years.” (Donahue 1) i. Commentary #1: proves my thesis by showing that a person’s situation is thought to affect their motives and wants, which is a very relatable topic even 200 years later ii. Commentary #2: helps in deeper understanding the novel by providing insight into a main theme/belief of the novel that we will see recur often in the novel, this insight is universal and widely relatable, especially in today’s culture b. Quote #2: “relationships, such as the one which eventually evolved between her character and Mr. Darcy, also sit well with contemporary women.” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 1) iii. Commentary #1: supports primary quote by giving foreshadowing example of developing relationship, gives support to idea that the themes in the novel are...
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