1) The author describes their elder sister as their personal leader who helped care for their family from a young age due to their parents' busy schedules. 2) Their elder sister took on responsibilities like caring for the younger siblings, making important family decisions, and giving advice, showing leadership qualities like courage, supportiveness, and good decision making. 3) The author reflects that their elder sister taught them important life lessons and qualities of a good leader through her example of optimism, wisdom, and service to the family.

1. 23 January2013
Assignment of Leadership, Power and Influence
Assignment No : 01 (One)
Topic :A personal leader
Submitted To
Ms. FahmidaChowdhury
Associate Professor, BIBM
Mirpur, Dhaka
Course Instructor :Leadership, Power and Influence
Department of Business Administration
Submitted By
MahfuzaAkterMili [+8801556341735]
ID :10206038( Student of MBA )
THE UNIVERSITY OF ASIA PACIFIC

2. My Elder Sister who is My Personal Leader
When I started this class on Leadership I used my own Elder Sisteras an example of a leader
becausewhen I think of some of the positive characteristics of organizational leaders my elder
sister keeps coming to my mind.
She is brave and courageous facing challenges most would have given up on. She is giving and
caring, encouraging and supportive. She wants only the best for our family, helping us face life
by teaching us skills and lessons. My Elder sister listened deeply to our joys, struggles, and
achievements- never judging, simply being there. We could count on my elder sister to pull our
family together, to connect us. She planned and organized incredible events and let us all shine in
the process.
My Elder sister was my tutor and the first leader in my life. The space she carved out for us in
the world is what gave us room to grow. the reason of that in our family we are five sisters and
one brother and our grandparents were staying with us that’s why some of our relatives always
present in our house. So it’s very difficult for my mother to maintain that entire situation without
a strong helping hand and that hand name is my elder sister. She always plays a supportive role
for my mother. My father was a businessman and also a too busy person who had no specific
time for his family and children.Since my mother worked hard all the time and never really had
time for us, she used to leave us with my elder sister and she looked after us like her child.
Basically when my sister was 15, my mother trusted her enough to take care of us and make
decision for us and she achieves this trust with doing her responsibility properly.When we were
sad as little kids we could run to my elder sisterand it would be all better. As we are growing up
and in our teen years we still need someone to talk to sometimes and we need to listen. She
always listens and gives us good advice.My elder sister knows us better than anyone. She knows
how to make us cry, how to make us happy. She knows all of our strengths and weaknesses. My
elder sister is courageous and knows how to take control. She can make things fun but at the
same time gets the job done. She knows what has to be done and gets it done on time. My elder
sister is like the leader of my family because when things need to get done she takes control and
gets them done.
People need to learn to make the right decisions. That is one of the most important qualities a
leader can have. As her sister, I would like to tell everyone that my elder sister taught us how to
make the right decisions. My elder sister appears to always make the right decisions. As a
teenager, it might not appear like she is right, but when looking back on the situation I realize
that the right decision was made. She is open to ideas of other people she will always listen to
our ideas and considers them when making decisions.
A leader is someone who shows admirable qualities that people would want to follow. A leader
can also be a person that is the head of some organization. My personal leaders are my elder
sister. Some people might question that, but my elder sister has all the qualities of a leader. Some
of the qualities she have are that she know when to say no, they always seem to make the right
decisions,

3. As I read through my notes which I got in this leadership class, I wasn’t surprised to find that my
reflections revealed that my Elder sister is a natural born leader. Although she has never been a
CEO of a company, she possesses many of the most significant qualities inherent in many of our
best.She has been fair and even-handed, positive and persuasive, hard working and determined.
But most of all, she knew how to draw out the best ineach one of her family members.
Myelder sister could always see the shining ray of hope in all situations. When I would talk to her
about personal or professional challenges she would say that life has it’s “ups and the downs”,
and that the most important thing to find the balance and inner-peace within.
I feel blessed to have inherited some of my Elder sister’s innate sense of optimism, sensibility and
courage. It is clear to me that create a confidant that I am today, mostly due to the positive beliefs that
were inspired upon me as a young sister.
Words of wisdom from my Elder sister that I always carry with me are: “This too shall pass”. As leaders,
my Elder sister’s advice implies that we must learn how to “let go” and trust. This means we can’t
control everything around us. It means asking others for help. It means not giving up. From
this place of trust, humility and hope, we can honestly discover how to serve one another.And so, as I
move forward in life,
I can only hope that I have received even a small portion of her elegance, wisdom and self-respect as I
proceed with my life.
At last I want to Thank my Elder sister for leading the way…………