LEADERSHIPS TO MARVEL AT

MADS 6709Manasvini Vimal Kumar

Poornachandra Bobba 

MADS/6709Creativity, Change, and the 21st Century Leadership

 Dr. Sydney Scott

Fairleigh Dickinson University22 July 2014

 

ADOLF HITLER- THE DICTATOR20 April 1889-9 April 1945

Leadership Style

•Directive•Autocratic•Authoritarian

•Followed telling style

Skills•Tactical skills• Diplomatic talks (when chancellor)•Inspired his forces

Development stages Concrete Diplomat Expert (cusp) Achiever

Traits•Dictatorial

•Robotic followers•Not a visionary

Traits•Action centered

• Hi task –Low relation• ‘Safety’ level of Maslow’s

hierarchy

Traits•Ego centric

• Selective listener•No personal connect• Imbalanced power

culture•High Power Distance

Society

Leadership Philosophy

RULE THE PEOPLEONLY ARYANS ARE THE PURE RACE

MARXISTS HIT THE ARMY IN THE BACK-abolish themJEWS are disloyal to their own motherland-annihilate them

•FASCIST•RACIST

• AUTONOMOUS

Positive points

•True patriot• Great orator

• Strict disciplinarian• Planner and organizer

• Won accolades in military

Negative points

•Avoidant listener• Rigid, inflexible

• Undercut conversation• Did not accept defeat

•Did not engage with followers• No emotional contact with followers• Could not take NO for an answer

• Did not ask for opinion/participation•Could not make decision at times

• Shortsighted •Unconsciously unskilled• Was not ready to listen

• Full of himself- Overconfident, Obssessed

AUNG SAN SUU KYI 19 June 1945- present

•An opposition leader of Burma

• A Nobel Peace Prize winner for non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights (Nobelprize.org, 2014)

• An international influencer-influenced George Bush’s policy towards Burma (Steinberg, 2010).

• Spent around 2 decades in confinement protesting against dictatorial rule in Burma (Biography.com, 2014)

•Founder of National League for Democracy (Biography.com, 2014)Source for picture- Nobelprize.org, 2014

LEADERSHIP TRAITS

• Influenced George Bush’s policy towards Burma- POSITIVE INFLUENCER

• “Her example shows people everywhere that political isolation and prison cannot silence the call for liberty (Laura Bush, 2012).”-  TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

• “The United States should look at suspending sanctions against Myanmar as the government has made ‘real progress’ toward reform (Mc Cain, senator at Centre for Strategic and International Studies, 2012).” TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

• “Persevere. You will get there in the end, just go on (Suu Kyi, 2012).”- VISIONARY, EMPOWERING

• “I found her a truly remarkable person. I have never met anyone like her before except for Nelson Mandela, who later became president of the nation that imprisoned him (Hillary Clinton, 2011).”- Affected by Buddhist Teachings, SACRIFICING

• Spent around 15 years in confinement and did not house bitterness but developed the strength within- SELF ACTUALIZING

LEADERSHIP STYLE• DEMOCRATIC• INCLUSIVE AND PARTICIPATORY• AN INTENT LISTENER• PEOPLE CENTERED LEADER• DEMONSTRATES HI TASK-HI RELATION LEADERSHIP• SHARES COMMON GOALS WITH PEOPLE OF BURMA• IMPACTS THE CULTURE OF THE PLACE• FULLY ENGAGES PEOPLE• GUIDER OF ENERGY- against DISCRIMINATION (UNAIDS involvement)• STRATEGIST- working through world’s sympathy with own credentials• PERSPECTIVE TAKING• SYMPATHETIC RESPONDER• REFLECTOR ON BUDDHISM• DECENTERED LEADER• SITS IN HER POWER• HANDLES PUSH BACK

Traits and CharacteristicsPositive traits• Creates positive influence• Sacrificed personal life for bigger

good• Fearless of initiating conflict-

challenging dictatorship• Stands for Human Rights and Peace

(Non violence at any cost) • Meaningful and fulfilled life• Listens with eyes, brain and heart• Voices the opinion of the mass• Politeness strategy • Draws popular support • Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who

go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society." — Aung San Suu Kyi

Negative traits• Politeness can be misguiding• Over positivity:

Suu: “No, don’t think about it, there’s no bullet, we still continue. Stay calm, stay calm, stay here.” ((walk forward face soldiers with guns pointed her)

(Yulianti, 2014)• Discouraging tourists to visit Burma• Sometimes overlooked muslim

community "When you leave a seed from a tree to grow

in a pagoda, it seems so small at first. But you know you must cut it out before it grows and destroys the building (Suu Kyi)"  (commented on by Ahmed, 2013)

The Most Resilient Leader ofModern times

• “Even if we do not achieve perfect peace on earth, because perfect peace is not of this earth, common endeavours to gain peace will unite individuals and nations in trust and friendship and help to make our human community safer and kinder (Suu Kyi, 2012).”

• Video: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+on+suu+kyi&docid=608049090232191740&mid=EF4720BA6FA649CBD941EF4720BA6FA649CBD941&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=EF4720BA6FA649CBD941EF4720BA6FA649CBD941

References• Ahmed, A. & Atkins, H. (2013, April 23).Suu Kyi’s muslim moral dilemma. Southeast Asia.

Retrieved from : http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/SEA-01-230413.html• Bush, L. (2012, May 16). George W. Bush honors Aung San Suu Kyi. Updated News.

Retrieved from: http://www.updatednews.ca/2012/05/16/george-w-bush-honors-aung-san-suu-kyi/

• Clinton, H. (2011). Buddhism has influenced my worldview. Tsemrinpoche.com. Retrieved from: http://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/current- affairs/aung-san-suu-kyi-buddhism-has-influenced-my-worldview.html

• MacKenzie, C. (2012, June 16). Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepts Nobel peace prize she won 21 years ago while under house arrest. The Daily Mail. Retrieved from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160237/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-finally-accepts-Nobel-Peace-Prize-won-21- years-ago-house-arrest.html

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160237/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-finally-accepts-Nobel-Peace-Prize-won-21-years-ago-house-arrest.html#ixzz38OZLOzHd Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

• Steinberg, D. (2010). Aung San Suu Kyi and U.S Policy towards Burma. Journal of current Southeast Asian affairs.29 (3). 35-59. Retrieved from:

• Suu Kyi. (2012). Buddhism has influenced my worldview. Tsemrinpoche.com. Retrieved from: http://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/current- affairs/aung-san-suu- kyi-buddhism-has-influenced-my-worldview.html

• Yulianti, E Himmavati, D.R. (2014). Politeness strategies in request and command used by Aung San Suu Kyi to rule Burmese in movie “the lady” UNESA. 2 (1). Retrieved from: http://ejournal.unesa.ac.id/index.php/language-horizon/article/view/6884/0