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Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton. MGTO 234 Managerial Leadership Group Project. Presentation Outline. Biography Accomplishment Personal Attribute Leadership Style Situational Circumstances Continuing success as a leader Comment. Biography. Biography. Public Figure: Clinton, William Jefferson

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Bill Clinton

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  1. Bill Clinton MGTO 234Managerial LeadershipGroup Project

  2. Presentation Outline • Biography • Accomplishment • Personal Attribute • Leadership Style • Situational Circumstances • Continuing success as a leader • Comment

  3. Biography

  4. Biography Public Figure: Clinton, William Jefferson Presidential Number: 42nd Years he was President: 1993-2001 State Represented: Arkansas Party Affiliation: Democrat Wife:Hillary Clinton The youngest President in the US

  5. Political Path of Bill Clinton

  6. Education & Occupations Education: • Graduated from Georgetown University (1968) • Attended Oxford University (1968-70) • Graduated from Yale University Law School (1973) Occupations before Presidency: • Lawyer, law professor, State Attorney

  7. Accomplishment

  8. Accomplishments Before Presidency: • teachers’ salaries • Required teacher competency exams • Made admission to high school conditionally

  9. Accomplishments Before Presidency: • Expanded Head Start programs • Approved home-schooling alternatives • Rated the most effective governor in the country by his colleagues

  10. Accomplishments During Presidency: • Proposed the first balanced budget in decades • Achieved a budget surplus • State income 61%

  11. Accomplishments During Presidency: • Enacted a welfare reform program • unemployment rate • inflation rate to the lowest in 30 years • Had the highest home ownership in the country's history

  12. Accomplishments During Presidency: • crime rates in many places • the deficit and welfare roles • Called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination • Launched worldwide campaign against drug trafficking

  13. Accomplishments During Presidency: • Dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons • Opened more international trade • Became a global proponent for an expanded NATO

  14. Personal Attributes

  15. Personal Attributes • Epochal and unconventional attributes • Used visioning and persuasive appeals • Respected everyone • Admirable and charismatic • Consulted with the others

  16. Epochal and Unconventional Attributes • Before Presidency: • competency exams to teachers and • standardized exams to students entering high school • Results: • - The highest high-school graduation rate • Substantial increase in the percentage of college admission of the State

  17. Using Visioning & Persuasive Appeals • In 1992, his presidential campaign: • participated in town meetings • toured the country by bus • Answered questions on television talk • Result: • - won the presidency with 43% of the votes • http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/bios/42pclin.html

  18. Showing Respect to Everyone • Appointed women and minorities to prominent government positions • Appointed two members to the U.S. Supreme Court, which were the first appointments to the High Court made by a Democratic President in twenty-five years

  19. Admirable & Charismatic Attributes • His merits: • unemployment rate to a thirty-year low and • Had the fastest real-wage growth in twenty years. • Results: • Received an impressive 69% job approval rating

  20. Consultation • Proposed on a middle class tax cut • After gathering opinions, he imposed the tax increase in the history instead http://dm.olemiss.edu/archives/96/9607/960729/960729ED2hendrickson.html

  21. Leadership Styles

  22. Leadership Style Bill Clinton is a successful leader with several leadership approaches: • Participative leadership • Task-oriented leadership • Relations-oriented leadership

  23. Participative Leadership Consultation: • Consulted other people for their opinions and ideas on political policies http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/chapters/4.html

  24. Participative Leadership In the early days of October '94, Clinton called Morris and he said, "What do you think I should do about the congressional elections?" And Morris said, "Well, let me take a poll, and give you some advice. " Because that's how I usually do it.” Clinton practiced consultation of participative leadership

  25. Participative Leadership • Joint decision making: • Regularly met with the executive committee members at conferences to discuss political issues. • Jointly made the decisions by simple majority, with all executive committee members in the Republican Congress

  26. Participative Leadership “Congress Passes Online Indecency Bill, Clinton expected to Sign, CDT Plans Court Challenge.” http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_2.5.html Clinton made joint decisions by participative leadership

  27. Participative Leadership Delegation: • Practiced delegation and gave individual and groups the authority and responsibility for making decisions

  28. Participative Leadership The size of Clinton's delegation, which is expected to number some 2,000 including the accompanying press, is an indication of how historic the moment is regarded in Washington http://www.safm.co.za/headlines/sep2000/head3_1611.html Clinton practiced delegation of participative leadership

  29. Task-oriented Leadership He was a well-planned leader with clear objectives

  30. Task-oriented Leadership • On 6 Aug 1996, he delivered a public statement about space The statement showed his task-oriented leadership style by planning what to do, how to do and who woulddo the investigation on Mars http://www.enterprisemission.com/clinton2.html

  31. Task-oriented Leadership He also set objectives for his plans in the statement 1st Objective: To confirm the initial findings of NASA to ensure that these findings were subject to a methodical process of further peer review and validation. 2nd Objective: To discuss the future of the space program – “Space Summit”. 3rd Objective: To continue with NASA's series of robotic Mars missions, including two scheduled for the end of 1996.

  32. Relations-oriented Leadership • His relations-oriented leadership style could be revealed from his relations with his Senators • E.g. John Glenn, the former Senator, sent him a letter through e-mail on the Space Shuttle Atlantis on 6 Nov 1994 http://clintonpresidentialcenter.com/leg_letters_glen_1.html

  33. Relations-oriented Leadership • From his letter of reply he recognized them by saying, “We are very proud of you and the entire crew.” • Showed his support by his expression of best wishes for their journey and great interest in their first-hand report

  34. Situational Circumstance

  35. Situational Circumstances Internal Problems: - Poor economics - Protests against racial discrimination External Problems: - Averse effect of war

  36. Poor Economics During the poor economical situation, where the federal budget deficit was 290 billion US dollars in 1992, all US civilians felt hopeless They had high expectation towards a new government as well as the coming president Therefore, if the new president achieved what the civilians want, he could be perceived as a successful leader.

  37. Achievements made by Bill Clinton Bill Clinton understood that the poor economics was the opportunity for him to showhis leadership ability What did Bill Clinton do? Launched a Did a Balance Reduced the Business Plan Budget Act public held debt 1993 1997 2000

  38. Solutions made by Bill Clinton 1. To improve the influence of war: Addressed the Concerns of Veterans Reached out to more than 400,000 Veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange Pressed for answers to the Gulf War Syndrome Pressed for proper care for those who suffer from it Began the process of building five new national cemeteries Made a special effort to bring homeless Veterans back into the society

  39. Solutions made by Bill Clinton The Clinton Administration made Veterans' health care a priority bringing health care closer to the Veterans who needed it by opening more than four hundreds out-patient clinics all across America Ensured Health Care is available for Veterans

  40. Solutions made by Bill Clinton • He believed that legal immigrants should have the same economic opportunities and should bear the same responsibilities as other members of the society 2. To attack discrimination: Providing Fairness for Legal Immigrants • In 1997 and 1998, the he fought for and succeeded in restoring disability, health and nutritional benefits for legal immigrants who had been taken away by the GOP congress

  41. Solutions made by Bill Clinton • - Signed a historic executive order to prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians in the federal workplaces • Cut the backlog at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by more than half • - Promoted equal pay for women Providing opportunities and fighting discrimination for all the Americans

  42. Results Clinton achieved: The lowest unemployment rate in modern times The lowest inflation in thirty years The highest home ownership in the country's history Dropped crime rates in many places Reduced welfare roles

  43. Continuing Success as a Leader?

  44. Present Job • Book writing • Speeches giving • The promotion of peace and freedom in the United States as well as in the world http://www.forbes.com/2002/06/25/0625clinton.html

  45. Supportive Reasons Is he acontinuing successful leader? No Immoral Untrustworthy Unfaithful Dishonest

  46. Pitfall 1. His sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky was revealed Immoral behavior While considering Bill Clinton as a leader, his personal integrity was a doubt for the United States citizens once:

  47. Pitfall 2. Helied under the Oathtotally three times about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky Dishonest behavior These events made him to be untrustworthy

  48. Supportive Reasons Is he a continuing successful leader ? Yes,Owning of personal power Expert Power Referent Power

  49. “Now that I have no power, I’m trying to have influence by concentrating my efforts.” By Bill Clinton http://www.leadersmag.com/Editorial/Issues/January_2003/012e261cli.pdf

  50. Expert Power • His power was gained through the expertise in coping with important problems and the expertise’s uniqueness • E.g. when he has been the president for only a few weeks, terrorists blew up a truck bomb in the World Trade Center’s basement in February 1993

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