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Different Leadership Styles

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This leadership style is of great influence in any organization, movement, business, and politics that aid in making people unified towards a common goal through behavior change. He exhibited a transformational leadership style, stimulating, motivating, and inspiring people to work towards a common vision. Barack Obama and Transformational leadership styles are explained in this document. Transformational leadership shares multiple similarities with the charismatic leadership style.

Different Leadership Styles

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Running head: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTLeadership development Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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1LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Barack Obama: Leadership style.....................................................................................................2Transformational leadership theory.................................................................................................4Criticism of Obama’s transformational leadership style.................................................................5Charismatic leadership theory.........................................................................................................6Followers and organizational change..............................................................................................6Change management........................................................................................................................8Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9References......................................................................................................................................10
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2LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTIntroduction Barack Hussein Obama born on 4th August 1961 was the 44th President from 2009 to2017 of the United States and American politician. He became the first African American tobecome the president and served in United States Senate. He is a true leader involved in helpingcommunity and possesses qualities of an effective leader. With his perseverance and conviction,during his eight years of tenure, he brought a change in the running of the country and was aninspiring leader. Therefore, the following report deals with the analysis of leadership style of thechosen leader, Barack Obama, leadership theories, organizational change and changemanagement. Barack Obama: Leadership style Barack Obama is the first African American to become the President of United States andset a history to change from Caucasian to Black president bringing about transformation. Thisrhetoric transformation was possible due to his transformational leadership acted as catalyst forthis huge change. He made a change that pushed the America’s tolerance limits fortransformation. He broke the racial barrier and became the first black president of United States.His political career started in 1996 in Illinios State Senate and, 2nd November 2004, he won theSenate seat in U.S. and on 5th January 2005, he became the fifth African American to bepopularly elected in the U.S. Senate. Finally, on 10th February, 2007 he became the President ofthe United States (Greenstein 2009). The transformational leadership style of Obama played an effective role that unified andcontributed to his presidential election. He has the ability to inspire people who would follow theleader’s vision that results in the betterment of an individual as well as common people. He
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3LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTexhibited transformational leadership style where he stimulated, motivated and inspired people towork towards a common vision. He believed that his vision would work for the greater good forthe people, community and the country as a whole. This leadership style is of great influence inany organization, movement, business, and politics that aid in making people unified towards acommon goal though behaviour change. This leadership style is distinct from other styles as it isextended beyond behaviours traits and characteristics. It is about intellect, inspiration andindividualized consideration. Obama proposed this inspiration through communication where hisintellect reflected through his interaction with people with establishment of common vision. Hiscommunication skills reflected charisma and therefore, it is foundation of the transformationalleadership style (Green and Roberts 2012). According to Nanjundeswaraswamy and Swamy (2014) transformational leaders need todevelop and possess skills that are beyond basic administrative capabilities and management likedirection, planning and delegation. However, to become a transformation leader, thedevelopment of effective communication is important which the primary skill for this leadershipstyle is. The evidence-based approach to transformational leadership is through communication asthey have the ability to articulate well and this is the reason Obama became a successfultransformational leader (Gliem and Janack 2008). He inspired many people during hispresidency and spearheaded change. He transformed many organizations, followers, societiesand institutions. His campaign and election both acted beyond symbolic across the globe andshowed right results at right time. Like transformational leaders, he also had high aspirations andstimulated innovation. During his tenure, he intellectually stimulated people both supporters andadversaries with his vision. He delivered well on the important dimensions of transformational
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