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No one is born a leader

No one is born a leader. August 24, 2019. What defines someone as a leader?. Abraham Lincoln -16th President of the United States, responsible for abolishing slavery Julius Caesar - Roman general, statesman, Consul, and notable author of Latin prose.

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No one is born a leader

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  1. No one is born a leader August 24, 2019

  2. What defines someone as a leader? • Abraham Lincoln -16th President of the United States, responsible for abolishing slavery • Julius Caesar - Roman general, statesman, Consul, and notable author of Latin prose. • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India • Joan of Arc - considered a heroine for recovering France from English dominance and a Roman Catholic saint. 

  3. Traits of Leaders • Vision and Mission • Self-Motivation • Optimism • Self-Confidence • Decisiveness • Passion and Enthusiasm • Accountability and Responsibility • Focus • Persuasive and Influential • Team Builder Do traits alone make someone a good leader?

  4. What about them? • Genghis Khan – leader of the Mongol Empire in the 13 & 14th centuries. Known for ruthless tactics and torture of his enemies • Josef Stalin - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922-1953. Ukraine suffered politically-created famine killing 10 million people. • Adolf Hitler - Leader of the Nazi party. He was a German dictator who was responsible for the Holocaust during the 2nd World War where over 14 million people died. • Idi Amin Dada - took charge of Uganda in 1971 in a military coup. Turned himself from a military officer into to the President and had a simple solution for eradicating the tribalism in Uganda; murder all of the tribes

  5. Are leaders always successful? • On December 5, 1914, Sir Ernest H. Shackleton and 27 men under his command sailed from South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic aboard the barqueEndurance. • Their goal was to land on the Antarctic continent and become the first to cross it. • Shackleton, a veteran of Antarctic exploration who had been knighted for his earlier expeditions, felt that crossing Antarctica was “the last great Polar journey that can be made.” He named his endeavor the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton and his men completely failed at the expedition’s stated goal; they never even set foot on Antarctica.

  6. What happened? • In January 1915, before they could reach the Antarctic coast, their ship became trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. • For nine months, they and their ship drifted helplessly with the ice. Then, in October 1915, currents and wind drove massive plates of ice in on the Endurance, crushing it. Members of the expedition were forced onto the ice floes surrounding the ship. • They salvaged three lifeboats and whatever equipment and provisions they could extract from the tangled wreckage of the ship before it sank. The ice became their home for the next six months.

  7. What happened? • Attempts to move their provisions and gear dozens of miles over the ice to land were frustrated by gaps between floes and impassible ridges of ice blocks pushed up against each other by currents and winds. • As their food supplies dwindled, they were forced to hunt whatever penguins and other sea life they could find. • Although the men initially hoped that the drifting of the ice would carry them toward land, in time it became clear that they were drifting northward toward the open ocean.

  8. What happened? • In late March 1916, cracks began splitting the floe into ever-smaller pieces. • On April 9, they were forced to take to their boats in an attempt to reach one of a few small islands off the Antarctic coast. • For seven sleepless days and nights, they battled the sea ice and the ferocious weather of the Southern Ocean, finally landing on remote, uninhabited Elephant Island.

  9. What happened? • Shackleton and five others left that island eight days later in the most seaworthy of the boats, the James Caird, to get help at South Georgia Island, a staggering 650 miles away. • Battling towering waves and weather that made navigational sightings almost impossible, they reached South Georgia 16 days later, only to come ashore on the uninhabited side of the island, opposite from the whaling stations they sought, and with the Caird’s rudder gone.

  10. What happened? • With no choice but to travel on foot, Shackleton and two of the other men set out to cross the mountainous, glaciated, and uncharted interior of the island. • On May 20, 1916, they walked into the whaling station at Stromness Bay.

  11. What happened? • Although the three men on the other side of the island were rescued the next day with help from the whalers, it would be four months and three attempts before a Shackleton-led rescue party succeeded in reaching the remainder of the men at Elephant Island on August 30, 1916. • Amazingly, after almost two years of danger and privation, not one of the expedition’s 28 members had been lost.

  12. Put your people first

  13. Be flexible in Tactics

  14. Choose your people carefully – for character, not just competence

  15. Sustain Optimism in the face of adversity

  16. LEAD BY EXAMPLE

  17. Strive for equal treatment

  18. Exercise Caution in pursuit of a goal

  19. Balance optimism with realism

  20. No one is born a leader August 24, 2019

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