Prominent Leaders
MGT 380: Leadership for Organizations
Instructor Kimberly Miller

May 27th, 2013

Prominent Leaders

George Herbert Walker Bush was born in the year 1924 and acted as the President of United States from 1989 to 1993. He was a great leader and brought about a drastic change in the working of the U.S. government. Leadership can be qualified into two types, transactional and transformational. Transactional leadership is based on reward-punishment approach whereas transformational leadership is based on realizing the goals and visions and then inspiring and motivating your employees to work harder. Bush had qualities of both the leadership styles but he was more tilted towards transformational leadership.
Bush can be considered more of transformational in nature since he worked on a long term approach. He worked to strengthen America on a long term basis realizing the mission, vision, and goals of America. He motivated his followers and those who worked under him to work hard and deal with the major problems of America, all while he inspired his fellow countrymen. When he became the president America was suffering heavily with the problems of debts and deficits. The future of America was in a bit of trouble due to the recently hit economic crisis. Imports were more in comparison to the exports that were made. Bush and his country faced many other severe problems like this; however, he fought bravely with all these problems and even inspired his teammates and countrymen to work hard. This displayed the qualities of transformational leadership.
Bush is a great fighter and has displayed his heroic skills many a times. One such occasion was during the World War II. Bush was the pilot of Torpedo Bomber Squadron VT-51, and on September 2nd, 1944 his plane was attacked. Although Bush was at a loss, he aimed his plane at his target before jumping