Leadership Style
Leadership Style
Mohamed Sharif
LDR/531
03/02/2015
George Kelley
Abstract
In this essay, I will discuss the resemblances and differences of the leadership personalities of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohamed Ibrahim Sharif, while at the same time analyzing each leader's areas of improvement.
Leadership Style
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Leadership is an influence process that assists groups of individuals toward goal attainment” (Peter G. Northouse, 2010). In order to achieve this process, the individual (leader) must influence, motivate and inspire group of individuals (followers) towards a mutual goal. Dr. Martin Luther King was this individual who the world saw as an inspirational leader. Before describing Dr. Martin Luther King's leadership characteristics in more details, I would like to first share a brief biography of Dr. King.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended a segregated high school in Georgia. He got his B.A degree from Morehouse College a private all male college located in Atlanta. He continued with his education to receive a doctorate degree in 1951 from Boston University. While at Boston Martin met Coretta Scott and married. Together they got two daughters and two sons. Short after receiving his doctorate degree, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started serving as pastor in 1954 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He quickly got involved in civil rights activities and was very active as member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1957 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which is an African American civil rights movement. Dr. King Jr. spoke and appeared everywhere there was injustice.
Dr. Martin Luther King's leadership character captures global interest. One of his most famous speeches "I have a dream" is broadly studied and inspired by a lot of inspiring
Mohamed Sharif
LDR/531
03/02/2015
George Kelley
Abstract
In this essay, I will discuss the resemblances and differences of the leadership personalities of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohamed Ibrahim Sharif, while at the same time analyzing each leader's areas of improvement.
Leadership Style
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Leadership is an influence process that assists groups of individuals toward goal attainment” (Peter G. Northouse, 2010). In order to achieve this process, the individual (leader) must influence, motivate and inspire group of individuals (followers) towards a mutual goal. Dr. Martin Luther King was this individual who the world saw as an inspirational leader. Before describing Dr. Martin Luther King's leadership characteristics in more details, I would like to first share a brief biography of Dr. King.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended a segregated high school in Georgia. He got his B.A degree from Morehouse College a private all male college located in Atlanta. He continued with his education to receive a doctorate degree in 1951 from Boston University. While at Boston Martin met Coretta Scott and married. Together they got two daughters and two sons. Short after receiving his doctorate degree, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started serving as pastor in 1954 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He quickly got involved in civil rights activities and was very active as member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1957 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which is an African American civil rights movement. Dr. King Jr. spoke and appeared everywhere there was injustice.
Dr. Martin Luther King's leadership character captures global interest. One of his most famous speeches "I have a dream" is broadly studied and inspired by a lot of inspiring