Running head: BARACK OBAMA 2 BARACK OBAMA 2 Barack Obama Limestone College Ishmael Carmichael Dr. Terrance Cusaac MG 350 Leadership in Organization March 14, 2020 Barack Obama’s Leadership Theories Barack Obama is a real leader because of his ability and having a great personality. One attribute that makes him a leader is honesty. That is the power of someone capable to make his ethics (Weinberger, 2014). Obama gets the attribute because he cannot agree to anything wrong to him and he would get to his job and philosophies for the greater good of the nation, even if he is risking his career. Another feature that presents Obama, concerning international affairs, is his appreciation of the respect of different nations despite their time. This led Obama to help diplomacy, yet with nations that were considered violent, e.g., Iran. All these leadership theories being discussed in the textbook, the most that apply to Obama's kind of leadership is the trait theories. Examining Obama in terms of this situational approach calls for a more detailed examination as it requires a thorough investigation of Obama's answers into different situations in his presidential career. This trait approach better applies to Obama. Take his traits alone, he is a competent human. He has the drive and needs to carry through his experience, and he has the powerful ways of translating the experience into activities. Obama also has the trust and mental power needed of the leader for him to be successful. According to the contingency theory in leadership, various management styles can be more useful in other situations (Daft, 2017). In this example, during his administration, Barack Obama has been able to react to various situations with various styles. For instance, when he was traveling overseas, he was modest and heard patiently before he talked. However, in different instances, he demonstrated his strong place and pushed the car industry in the US to take some measures and modify their business activities. Eventually, he showed this reality that he is ready to be hard to achieve these changes he promised to take and overcome all types of challenges to make his promises. Three Specific Leadership Traits If I had to go up with one word to describe Barack Obama, the speech could be good. As anybody awake and conscious for this last decade will tell you, Obama has never, always lied about anything. That is why all these wise, cool people do the huge show of thinking everything Obama says and never questioning his commitment to the fact. Obama was a political outsider with good oratory talent, born to a middle-income household, a respectable home person with honesty and patience. Worrying about his fellow person to the point that he could forsake a high-paying job to turn into a welfare worker. He is smart, which demonstrated in his ability to see people and conceptions (Behar, 2019). From day one, he had the experience for the United States, which .

1. Running head: BARACK OBAMA 2
BARACK OBAMA 2
Barack Obama
Limestone College
Ishmael Carmichael
Dr. Terrance Cusaac
MG 350 Leadership in Organization
March 14, 2020
Barack Obama’s Leadership Theories
Barack Obama is a real leader because of his ability and
having a great personality. One attribute that makes him a
leader is honesty. That is the power of someone capable to
make his ethics (Weinberger, 2014). Obama gets the attribute
because he cannot agree to anything wrong to him and he would
get to his job and philosophies for the greater good of the

2. nation, even if he is risking his career. Another feature that
presents Obama, concerning international affairs, is his
appreciation of the respect of different nations despite their
time. This led Obama to help diplomacy, yet with nations that
were considered violent, e.g., Iran.
All these leadership theories being discussed in the
textbook, the most that apply to Obama's kind of leadership is
the trait theories. Examining Obama in terms of this situational
approach calls for a more detailed examination as it requires a
thorough investigation of Obama's answers into different
situations in his presidential career. This trait approach better
applies to Obama. Take his traits alone, he is a competent
human. He has the drive and needs to carry through his
experience, and he has the powerful ways of translating the
experience into activities. Obama also has the trust and mental
power needed of the leader for him to be successful.
According to the contingency theory in leadership, various
management styles can be more useful in other situations (Daft,
2017). In this example, during his administration, Barack
Obama has been able to react to various situations with various
styles. For instance, when he was traveling overseas, he was
modest and heard patiently before he talked. However, in
different instances, he demonstrated his strong place and pushed
the car industry in the US to take some measures and modify
their business activities. Eventually, he showed this reality that
he is ready to be hard to achieve these changes he promised to
take and overcome all types of challenges to make his promises.
Three Specific Leadership Traits
If I had to go up with one word to describe Barack Obama, the
speech could be good. As anybody awake and conscious for this
last decade will tell you, Obama has never, always lied about
anything. That is why all these wise, cool people do the huge
show of thinking everything Obama says and never questioning
his commitment to the fact. Obama was a political outsider with
good oratory talent, born to a middle-income household, a
respectable home person with honesty and patience. Worrying

3. about his fellow person to the point that he could forsake a
high-paying job to turn into a welfare worker.
He is smart, which demonstrated in his ability to see
people and conceptions (Behar, 2019). From day one, he had the
experience for the United States, which he formulated
eloquently any moment he was taken about it. Articulate
extemporaneous words were the recognized attribute of Obama
earning him a reputation for power. Certainly, his ability and
desire to learn allowed him to see tough concepts. But he took
another gift that power to effectively talk about these concepts
with everyone from the farmers in middle Earth to the most
highly esteemed and well-cultivated world individuals. He
pursued politically with people by attempting to see who they
were and what they needed from this Earth.
He is trustworthy, brave, caring and respectful. He owns
all these traits. He got what it takes to be the president of the
United States. He owns the minds, the thoughts, the loving
personality, and the intention to be responsible and honest. He
is a very sharp person. He is always dressed for success. He
wants to make sure that he takes his jobs seriously for his peers
and employees. He constantly attempts to make the best choice
to change the system. He is outstandingly smart.
Three Specific Leadership Skills
Barack Obama's leadership qualities that give the people in him
to compete are those qualities that every effective leader should
possess. Ability, quality communication skills, a broad range of
education, a multicultural setting, and an affinity for change. He
has better communication skills because he has been successful
at conveying his beliefs in them entirely to his people. This
very general emotion of public speech is shared by introverts
and extroverts alike. Yet, the number of known introverts is
good public speakers such as former President Barack Obama
(Cornett, 2018). frequently discuss the importance of public
speaking for promoting the business, but I am not going to tell

4. you overcoming this fear is simple. It takes a lot of work and a
good deal of preparation and training (Rainie, L., & Anderson,
J., 2019). Mastering public speaking can have a large effect on
business development (Amadebai, 2020).
Three Leadership Behavior
He is a real leader because of his ability features and
personality traits. One feature that makes him a leader is
honesty, that is, the power of someone capable to make his
ethics. He gets the attribute because he cannot agree to anything
wrong to him and he would get to his job and philosophies for
the greater good of the nation, even if he is risking his career.
Another feature that presents Obama, for international affairs, is
his appreciation of the respect of different nations despite their
time. This led Obama to help diplomacy.
Barack Obama boasts of qualities and traits of effective leaders
that have not only made him a statesman but also a leader with a
high reputation across the globe. One of his traits is conviction
and perseverance. In his first campaign as the president, his
slogan, "Change we can believe in" shows a leader who is
convinced that the time for change is now only if we believe in
achieving it and this comes with the perseverance to keep going
amidst opposition. He took a firm stand on many issues and one
of them was on the UN resolution on Israel-Palestinian conflict
in which everyone agreed with him. His argument was logical
and well-thought-out (Hammad, 2018).
Obama embraced transformational leadership which is usually
appealing to most people because public leadership is about
being felt and providing service to the community. He just did
not talk about it, he brought real change in his 8-year tenure
which one of them being the Obama Care and the assassination
of Osama Bin Laden (Hammad, 2018). While his critics may
have come out to say he did not deliver on all his promises,
everyone agrees that he delivered on most of them, especially
the critical ones. The "we" attitude rather than "I" placed him at
higher pedestal as a leader who believes in combined effort and
collaboration with the citizens to achieve their mutual goals.

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