Management 648
Leadership outline

The only leader I could think of, that had a positive influence on my life was my grandfather. He migrated from Mexico in the early sixties with aspirations of a greater life. When he arrived to California he worked in the fields of Fresno as most immigrants did. From there he saved his earnings and was able to become an American citizen. From there he came to San Francisco to join the local laborers Union. After many years of hard work and money management he was able to purchase an apartment complex in San Francisco’s Marina District. With the income of that property he was able to purchase a 346 acre cattle ranch in his native state of Mexico. He began to focus on building a cattle transportation company from Durango, Mexico to El Paso, Texas. He started off with two employees, by the height of his career he had employed more than 30 people ranging from Mexico to Texas. The idea was simple he would raise cattle on his property and once they were at a mature state he would transport them to Texas and sell them for a profit. When he retired he had an estimated net worth of six million dollars at the age of sixty. It is amazing to me how a man with no education ended up with this vast amount of wealth. I was a young boy when he purchased the cattle ranch. I was still old enough to witness how he would lead his company, and how people would follow him. I truly feel he was the definition of an authentic leader. The more and more I read the text for this course I can relate the text to my grandfather’s style of leadership. I remember as a young boy spending summer vacations on a cattle ranch witnessing him play the leadership role to his employees and relatives. Little did I know I was being mentored for a leadership role? I believe this has helped me tremendously. In my early twenties I started a small