An Analysis of Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell by Oren Harari

This report analyzes the leadership secrets of Colin Powell, as presented in Oren Harari's book. It explores Powell's principles, including the importance of responsibility, attention to detail, and empowering people. The report highlights key leadership traits such as honesty, integrity, and steadfastness, emphasizing the significance of leading by example and the ability to communicate effectively. It examines Powell's emphasis on making decisions, taking responsibility, and learning from professionals. The report also covers Powell's view on leadership as a process of solving problems, encouraging evolution, and achieving more than what is considered possible. The report emphasizes the importance of courage, vision, and the ability to inspire others, and the need for effective communication. It references Eagly et al., Harari & Ryan, and Northouse to support the analysis of Powell's leadership style.

Leadership secrets of Collin Powell by Oren Harari

Leadership secrets of Collin Powell by Oren Harari
Collin Powell is one of the most successful leaders at his level. According to Harari, Collin
thinks about leadership is more responsibility then rand and privilege. He is an American
Statesman and a retired general in the Army of United States. People must share a mission to
achieve. He states leadership is required to evaluate the standard of performance, attention to
details, get talented people, standing in their midst, empowerment of people as these are
necessary for success. In Book, the Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell by Oren Harari includes
the section Powell as a provocateur. Powell Principles are included in the book which is stated
by Oren Harari. His principles for leadership are Command is Lonely in which the decision rests
with the leader and Leaders who are strong weights their position. His principle is to lead by
example as all the employees are boss watchers. It is necessary for the leader to the cues of rank
and file. The greatest task in leadership is to take an exit and know the time to exit in the
situation. Leadership is a responsibility and those who seek responsibility have to prepare him
for accepting it fully and unequivocally. He states that the leadership is about pushing the science
of management to the edge and even snapping the limits. It is stated that leadership entails hard
work and loneliness. It is all about integrity.
According to Powell, leaders include the principles for effective leadership. The secrets Colin
Powell are revealed by Oren Harari using examples for describing the traits of a leader and the
examined the challenges in leadership. Oren Harari has revealed that it is essential for an
effective leader to learn and practice leadership in his or her day to day life for achieving the
results. In Army, it is essential to be a good leader as according to Collin Powell leaders are
those who make the progress and change the lives of people. An effective leader in the military
can influence another person as they can encourage people to achieve the goal by explaining the
standards and work which are beyond their expectations. Harari has stated that according to
Collin Powell, the essential leadership traits are honesty, energy, integrity, and steadfastness. It is
essential for a leader to be loyal with their subordinates and must be focused on mission and
confidence, must show selflessness and be empathetic towards people. Powell has emphasized
leadership as a leader are made not born and it can be learned with loyalty, integrity, and high
energy drive. He has practiced the people based leadership in his career and translated it into

success and excellent performance. Leaders are those whom people respect and follow their
principles in their life and leader must have effective leadership and experience and values must
be shared. Collin Powell has stated that the effective military leaders must be courageous
because it is required to take stands for principles and never back down. With the understanding
of principles and practices together helps in shaping the leadership skills and it helps in directing
other people. The vision is essential in leadership as it encourages the officers in the military to
seek responsibility and take effective actions on the responsibilities. Good leadership and
decisions encourage everyone's evolution and prohibit leaders from failing themselves by taking
the good and carefully weighted decision instead of unchallenged decisions.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. It
is meant by Collin Powell that good leadership means that you have good communication skills
also as it is the basis for the success of a mission. The traits of Collin Powell are the
characteristics of which can be observed inside or outside of work. Colin Powell is one of the
popular and most admired American leaders and he has developed his leadership skills during his
service and he has used many different leadership styles during his career. He believed
throughout his career that leadership is to take care of the entire group and it is useful to learn
from professionals. He has always believed that one man can change the world with effective
leadership. Colin Powell always says that leadership is solving problems as in military it is
necessary for a leader to solve the problems of a soldier and when they stop bringing their
problems, they don't think you as a leader. He inspires people to follow him with his leadership
qualities of respect, communicative, honesty, and delegacy.

Reference
Eagly, A. H., Johannesen-Schmidt, M. C., & Van Engen, M. L. (2003). Transformational,
transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles: a meta-analysis comparing women and
men. Psychological Bulletin, 129(4), 569.
Harari, O., & Ryan, C. (2002). The leadership secrets of Colin Powell (pp. 202-202). New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.