Two Leaders and Their Speeches

This paper analyzes and compares the speeches of Jawaharlal Nehru and Brad Banducci, revealing their leadership styles and approaches. The analysis includes critical discourse analysis, leadership qualities, and a structural comparison between the two speeches.

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Two Leaders and Their Speeches
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................1
Analysis of speech of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister, India:.....................................1
Analysis of speech of Brad Banducci, CEO and MD, Woolworths Group:....................................3
Structural comparison between the two speeches:..........................................................................5
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction:
Critical discourse analysis refers to the aspects of the speakers which speeches by leaders
reveal. The speeches of leaders speak about their authorities, their spans of control and various
other aspects. The paper would analyse and compare between the two speeches by two famous
personalities belong to two different fields. The first speech is ‘Tryst with Destiny’ the famous
speech delivered by the first Prime Minister of Independent India, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru in the
Parliament House after the country gained freedom. The second speech is that of Mr. Brad
Banducci, the chief executive officer and managing director of Woolworths, the Australian
supermarket chain (wow2017ar 2018). The study would first analyze their individual speeches
and then go on to compare them in the light of their leadership styles and approaches.
Analysis of speech of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister, India:
The chosen speech was delivered by Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of
India after she got freedom in August 15, 1947. The speech titled ‘Tryst with destiny’ is one of
the most famous speeches delivered by the late Indian Prime Minister. Mr Nehru through the
speech addressed the countrymen of India after she gained independence from 200 years of
British rule in 1947. According to Mr. Nehru, the newly gained freedom has ushered a new dawn
of opportunities for the country (theguardian.com 2018_. He also pointed out that several
challenges would await the country as she advances towards development. He urged that free
India should carry forward her diverse culture, history and heritage as she advances into
development. The ex-Prime Minister further advocated that the Indians must adhere to ethics,
principles and law in all walks of life. He ended the speech by emphasizing that irrespective of
religion, caste or any other distinctive identities, all the people are Indians and are responsible
the country for their actions. They are similarly entitled to enjoy the rights and promote

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democracy, freedom and peace (nytimes.com 2018). An analysis of the speech would reveal the
following aspects:
Critical Discourse Analysis:
Critical discourse analysis can be defined as the analyses of use of language used in a
speech while reveals the social aspects of the orator. The speech of a person reveals the social his
power, dominance, ideology and mentality. One can also identify the member groups by
analyzing the speech of the person. An analyses of the speech by Late Mr. Nehru reveals a lot
about his position. He was a freedom fighter, the first Prime Minister of free India and earned a
lot of respect. His speech resonates with the power and control he enjoyed over the Indian
people. He points out that the freedom has presented with new opportunities and challenges for
the Indians. This shows that he had a futuristic and realistic ideology which enabled him to see
both scope and threats. Thus, critical discourse analysis of Late Mr. Nehru reveals his power,
ideology and leadership qualities (Mahdi and Aljadaan 2015).
Leadership qualities of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru:
The speech reveals several leadership qualities of Late Mr. Nehru. The first aspect that
one can point out is that Mr. Nehru stressed on democracy, freedom and peace. He emphasized
on equal rights and responsibilities of every Indian irrespective caste and creed. This shows that
he was a democratic leader who advocated empowerment of his followers, the Indians. The next
attribute in the leadership of Late Mr. Nehru which the speech reveals is that he was a
transformative leader because he led India into freedom. The next leadership attribute of the late
Prime Minister which the speech reveals is his futuristic attitude (Van Dijk 2015). He made it
clear that India as a free country would be aiming to attain economic development and emerge

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into a global economy. Thus, one can infer from the analysis of the speech of Mr. Nehru that his
leadership style combined democratic and transformative leadership theories. He was a futuristic
leader who stressed on both the market opportunities and challenges. The speech shows that he
not only stressed on leading the nation as her first Prime Minister but only on the empowerment
of the India to participate in the future macro-economic developments (Bednarek and Caple, H.,
2014).
Analysis of speech of Brad Banducci, CEO and MD, Woolworths Group:
The speech of Brad Banducci,, managing director and chief executive officer,
Woolworths reveals several features about him and the organization. The CEO and Md of
Woolworths reveals several facts about the company, both in terms of present and future. He told
that supermarket chain looks forward to cause more value to the investments of the shareholders,
which reveals the responsibility Woolworths harbors for its investors. He then went on reveal
that supermarket chain would incorporate the expectations of the customers and employees while
forming its core strategies. He further told that the supermarket would aim to gain sustainability
and also expand its current product offerings (woolworths.com.au 2018).
Brad Banducci then went on to point out that the Woolworths aims to expand its product
portfolio as a part of core business strategies, which reveals its dynamic nature of the
supermarket chain. The speech reveals about ALH Hotels which is partly owned by Woolworths
is also progressing and gaining more competitive advantage in the hotel market. He then went on
to state that Woolworths has adopted the aim to attain lean retailer by streamlining its entire
business procedure right from its supply chains to its retail sales to customers (alhgroup.com.au
2018). The CEO concluded by shedding ligh on the fact that in order to gain sustainability, the
retail chain would also maintain inventory more strategically to ensure minimum wastage and

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maximum sale of its inventory of finished goods including the perishable items to generate
revenue.
Critical disclosure analysis:
As discussed, critical disclose analysis speaks about the personality, power and intentions
of the speaker. The speech by Mr. Banducci reveals a lot about not only himself but also about
Woolworths as an organization. His speech oozed with the power and control he exercised over
Woolworths being its chief executive officer. He, through the short speech from his desk shed
light on several aspects on the future business strategies of the super market chain like lean
business management, employee culture and customer relationship He also shed light on the
sustainability and alignment with the supply chain with the all over business strategies of the
group. His speech style revealed his futuristic attitude. Mr. Banducci, however did not reveal
much on the challenges which await the supermarket chain (Schaltegger, Hansen and Lüdeke-
Freund 2016).
Leadership style:
The speech of Mr. Brad Banducci reveals several salient features about the leadership
strategies of Woolworths. His speech revealed that Woolworths aims to empower the employees
to ensure higher degree of customer satisfaction. His speech reveals that Woolworths aims to
empower its employees which showed its employee centric organization culture. The style of
leadership of Mr. Banducci and Woolworths can be described as participative leadership style
which encourages participation and empowerment of employees (Mesu, Sanders and Riemsdijk
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The next leadership aspect of Mr. Banducci which the speech throws light upon is the
high level of stakeholder responsibility. The CEO throughout his speech mentioned about several
stakeholder groups like the employees, customers, suppliers and investors. He stressed that the
organization is ready to undergo changes in its present operations to achieve higher levels of
sustainability. His speech clearly mentioned that the organization emphasizes on obtaining
stakeholder support to achieve more successful organizational changes (Hartnell, et al. 2016).
Structural comparison between the two speeches:
The comparison between the speeches by Mr Jawaharlal Nehru and Mr. Brad Banducci
would reveal several points of differences. The first point of difference which a comparison of
their speeches would reveal is the context.
Critical disclosure analysis:
The speech of Mr Nehru is set against the background of India right after she gained
independence. The speech of Mr. Nehru appropriately reveals the enthusiasm and motivation the
Indians require to have for India to emerge as a global power. So the motive of the speech was to
congratulate and motivate the Indians on the eve of their newly gained freedom. The speech also
outlined the opportunities and threats which India has to encounter in her journey of emerging as
a global economy. Hence, the critical disclosure analysis clearly showed the power and control
Mr Nehru enjoyed being a national leader and first Prime Minister of India (Nehru 2016).
The speech of Mr. Brad Banducci as far as critical disclosure analysis is concerned,
resonates with the power he enjoys as the CEO of Woolworths. His speech has futuristic
approach which shows light on the strategies which the supermarket chain would be taking.
Leadership style:

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The speech of Mr. Nehru was that of a transformation leader addressing India after she
gained freedom of the British rule. The aim of the speech as to motivate the Indians to unite and
bring about the development of India as a nation in all aspects. Mr. Nehru stressed clearly on the
need to uphold democracy and peace while attaining economic development. He emphasized on
the fact that Indians irrespective of their religions, caste or any other distinct identity should
enjoy the rights entitled to them. An analysis of the speech thus reveals that the leadership of Mr.
Nehru also incorporated features of democratic leadership style. Thus, the speech revealed that
Mr. Nehru was both a democratic and transformative leader (Husain 2016).
Communication style:
The speech of Mr. Banducci compared to the speech of Mr. Nehru largely revealed
participative leadership style. He was not addressing the Constituent Assembly in the Parliament
of India while the speech of Mr Banducci was that of a CEO expressing his views in the financial
statements of the company. Thus, the speech style of Mr. Nehru had an oratory approach while
that speech of Mr. Banducci had a written communication approach (Johansson, Miller and
Hamrin 2014).
Economy Industry Company (EIC) approach vs Company Industry Economy (CIE) approach:
The oration by Mr. Nehru was that of the first Prime Minister of India addressing the
Parliament after the country gained freedom. The Prime Minister’s oration spoke about
economic development, upholding of democracy and peace. He also stressed on the fact that all
citizens of India would be entitled to the fundamental rights irrespective of their caste, creed or
race. Thus, the speech of Mr. Nehru had EIC approach (Goetsch and Davis 2014).

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Mr Banducci speech spoke about the future strategies of Woolworths including its
employee culture and customer relationship. Thus, the speech of Mr. Banducci had a CIE
approach which stressed on the strategies of the company (Terek et al. 2015). His speech gave an
account of the future expansion of product portfolio which the management has on the cards but
does not reveal anything about the challenges the company would face. Thus, the speech was
placed very diplomatically about the company to attract future business partners. Thus, the
CEOof Woolworths followed the company, industry economy approach.
Conclusion:
One can conclude the leadership styles leaders follow vary according the context. The
speeches of the leaders reveal their authority, personality and power. The aim of the leadership is
ultimately to lead groups of people towards attaining a common set of goals. For example, the
aim of Mr. Nehru’s speech was to motivate Indians to strive to attain higher level of economic
development. The aim of Mr Banducci was addressing the Woolworths and its stakeholders
while presenting the annual financial reports. The style of leadership also varies according to the
leaders. Mr. Nehru exemplifies democratic and transformational leadership while Mr. Banducci
follows participative leadership style.

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