This presentation provides an overview of Barack Obama's leadership qualities and style. It begins with a biography of Obama's early life and political career. It then examines his personality traits, attitudes, and behaviors using several leadership frameworks. Obama displays traits of transformational leadership and pragmatic problem-solving. He relies on both personal charisma and his position as President. The presentation compares Obama's skills to Abraham Lincoln and suggests Obama draws power through inspiration and rational persuasion. It identifies contingency theory and leader-member exchange as leadership models exemplified by Obama.

1. A leader is one who knows the
way, goes the way, and
shows the way.
—John Maxwell

3. PRESENTATION :
(LEADERSHIP)
BY
Given by:
Sir BABAR JAMIL
MEMBERS:
Muhammad Saqib
Abid ur Rehman
Sadia bibi
Naveed

4. BARACK H. OBAMA (As a Leader)

5. “Content”….
Biography
Personality Traits
Attitudes
Behavior & Styles
Comparison with
Abraham Lincoln
 Model
 Power & Influencing
Tactics
 Leadership lessons
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6. BIOGRAPHY

7. Early Life
 Born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th
1961
 Family moved to the Indonesia in 1967
 Schooling in Jakarta (age 6 to 10)
 Returned to Honolulu to live with his
grandparents in 1971
 Punahou School( grades fifth to high
school graduation in 1979)

8. College Years
Occidental College Los Angeles in 1979
Columbia University in New York
Graduate in 1983 with B.A
Worked with Business International
Corporation and the New York Public Interest
Research Group
 Director of the Developing Communities
Project (DCP) from June 1985 to May 1988
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9. College Years
 Traveled to Europe for the first time in
1988
 Harvard Law School late in 1988
 Graduated in 1991 from Harvard with a
J.D
 Director of Illinois’s "Project Vote” from
April to October 1992
 Constitutional law professor at the
University of Chicago Law School.

10. Political career
 Elected to the Illinois Senate for the 13th
District In 1996
 Chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health
and Human Services Committee In
January 2003
 2004 election campaign for U.S. Senate
 Resigned from the Illinois Senate in
November of 2004

11. Presidential Candidacy
 Announced his candidacy on February 10, 2007
 Abraham Lincoln delivered his “House of David”
speech
 Campaign against John McCain
 Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate,
August 23, 2008
 Obama was sworn in as president of the United
States of America on January 20th, 2009

12. 44th President of USA
 Barack Obama is the 44th President of the
United States, in 2009
 Winning campaign against John McCain.
 First African American, became the President of
US.
 Re-Elected 2nd time , sworn in as president on
January 20th, 2013
 Wining campaign against Mitt Romney

13. PERSONALITY TRAITS

14. Leadership Traits
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Integrity
Self Confidence
Intelligence
Sensitivity to others
Respect
Fairness
Citizenship
Caring

15. Big 5 Model of Personality Traits
SURGENCY AGREEABLENESS
Have
Authority
OPENNESS
ADJUSTMENT CONSCIENTIOUSTo
NESS EXPERIENCE
Respect of
Followers
Sensitivity to
others
Care of followers
Calm under
pressure
Integrity
Self- confidence
Citizenship
Intelligence
Seek
Change

16. Big 5 Model of Personality Traits
Obama exemplifies high
scores in :
 agreeableness (getting
alone with others)
 adjustment (emotional
stability)
 openness to experience
(achievement)

17. Obama & Achievement Motivation Theory
 Obama have :
High need for achievement;
moderate need for affiliation;
low need for power

18. ATTITUDES

19. Obama & Theory Y
President Obama would fall under Theory Y.
Due to ;
 his emotional intelligence
 He is also quoted saying “I don’t get too
high when things are going well and I don’t
get too low when things are going tough”.

20. BEHAVIOR & STYLES

21. Leadership Styles
Transformational-charismatic
Cross-Cultural-Global Leadership
More pragmatic than ideological
More task- than relationship
oriented
 High need for achievement;
moderate need for affiliation; low
need for power
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22. Obama & University of Iowa
 The leadership style of Obama is more
Democratic
Autocratic
Democratic

23. Comparison with Abraham Lincoln

24. Speaking Skill
 Obama is able to inspire through
speaking.
 Getting straight to the hard issues
while still creating the feeling
of national unity for his listeners.
 skill that is close to Lincoln’s
amazing speaking abilities.

25. Situation
 Obama, much like Lincoln, finds
himself elected in the middle of a
crisis.
 National Issues for Lincoln: Civil War,
Reconstruction
 National Issues for Obama: Economic
Crisis, Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
Climate Change

26. Campaign
 Lincoln was the republican candidate in 1860
who was known as a moderate who could
appeal to the West.
 Lincoln won his campaign by telling his life
story, a child raised in poverty who made his
way to the top.
 Obama won his campaign by creating
hope of a better tomorrow for his country
 "Yes We Can"

27. POWER & INFLUENTIAL TACTICS

28. Source of Power
 Obama used Personal Power before elected
as a President.
 Now he uses both Personal Power &
Position Power.

29. Types of Power
Obama uses mostly ;
 Legitimate Power
 Referent Power

30. Power & influential Tactics
TYPE OF POWER
INFLUENCING TACTICS
LEGITIMATE POWER
LEGITIMIZATION
RATIONAL PERSUATIONAL
CONSULTATION
REFERENT POWER
INSPIRATIONAL APPEALS
PERSONAL APPEAL

31. LEADERSHIP MODEL

32. Obama & leadership model
Obama uses mostly ;
 Contingency Leadership Model
 Leader-member Exchange Model

33. LEADERSHIP LESSONS

42. References
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http://jcsd-cl-obama.weebly.com/index.html
http://www.essayjudge.com/document_detail.php?doc_id=1147
http://prospect.org/article/barack-obamas-theory-power
http://ecoggins.hubpages.com/hub/Barack-ObamasLeadership-Styles
http://obamaspeeches.com/

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