Angela Merkel earned her doctorate in physics and worked as a chemist and scientist. She started her political career in 1989 as a deputy spokesperson for East German Government and became Germany's first female Chancellor in 1995. Regarded by many as the most powerful person in world, she has little style and less charisma, is not a good speaker, takes forever to make decisions and displays no obvious political vision or even ideology. Learning from Nelson Mandela, Merkel is leading from behind (the ultimate form of purpose-based leadership), in other words, “viewing leadership as a collective activity”. With her personable, down-to-earth demeanour, she displayed steady, effective leadership in five critical areas, namely Germany’s economic crisis, social policy, global warming (During an economic crisis, world’s leaders …show more content…
avoided the challenge of global climate change but Merkel, Germany and Europe quietly stepped into the role of global leaders), foreign policy and refashioning capitalism in the face of its near collapse. An understanding of her distinctive, uncompromising leadership style and her technical, conceptual and interpersonal skills explains the key to her success. Giving her background as a scientist, attention to detail, ability to competently analyse and process large quantities of data and information and to use logic and reason, Merkel is considered to be both pragmatic and methodical at all times. Her scientific mindset is one that believes strongly in moving forward at all times. She prefers seeking structure over embracing chaos in order "to advance and solve problems”. Her autocratic and/or consultative decision making style is largely based on facts and not passion nor popular opinion. She avoids taking risky decisions at all cost and analyse and weigh decisions carefully. If the outcome is still a risky decision, she will simply avoid it. During her political career, she made a few incorrect decisions but were not afraid to acknowledge and to rectify her mistakes. She doesn’t reveal her plans, visions or ideologies in public but pursue and attain her objectives in private.
While it may seem like Merkel is publically responding to political matters with vagueness, she actually accomplishes everything she set out to do behind the scenes. Angela Merkel is known for deliberately dull critical issues in order to defuse the severest conflicts with her opposition and often seeks the middle ground. While remaining committed to her own political ideals, Merkel has repeatedly showed a capacity to embrace and absorb many policies and opinions of political opponents e.g. the “abandoning of nuclear power, raising social security benefits for families, capping rent rises, promising a minimum wage”. The result is a strong middle ground that really does incorporate the best of all viewpoints. In conclusion, Angela Merkel’s is regarded as one of the world’s greatest leaders and her values have helped to reverse and rescue Germany's reputation from the past. Her actions are inspiring, she is optimistic, has integrity, confidence, is decisive, consciensciousness, extraversion and she support and facilitate her country as
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To summarize this analysis, Hillary Clinton shows us how as we unite, the stronger our bond is. She uses clever ways to show this action. Though she did not win this presidential election, she is still loved by many. She helped herself because of the way she wrote and persuaded people to join her. Using rhetorical appeals
I am choosing to write my essay focusing on Nancy Pelosi, arguably one of the most influential politicians of her time, and certainly one of the outstanding ladies of the political world. Not only was she the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, she also was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at Seneca Falls. She ranks with the most consequential speakers, certainly in the last 75 years.”(Burstyn) Nancy Pelosi was born on March 26th in 1940 and she has represented San Francisco for approximately 29 years. This however is not by far her most notable achievement, speaker of the house aside, under her guidance the 111th US Congress was said to be the most productive in the history of its conception. This means that she was able to oversee the 111th Congress in a manner that minimized the terrible three, collective action problems, commitment problems, and coordination problems. These problems all come down to the inability to make decisions, and are extremely ponderous to efficiency. She ran it as famously, even though the house was so divided when she took the pos...
Hitler had a lot to do with Germany and he was remembered but not because of anything positive, but because he was one of the worst coldhearted dictators Germany or the world could’ve experienced. My view and Topic is worth consideration by the reader because it will inform them more about Hitler’s actions in 1933 and so on.
and was seen as the perfect role model to all German women many of the
Leadership is a complex idea that is often is hard to define. Everyone seems to have different characteristics that they feel contribute to a good leader. Even though there is no straightforward definition of leadership, there are still certain personality traits, behaviors, skills, and motivators that people admire in a leader. The best example to show how leaders utilize these characteristics is to examine a prominent figure in pop culture, such as Beyoncé. Her life is transparent enough that we can analyze her leadership skills, and how they change in any given situation. Beyoncé’s impact as a leader will be analyzed in three different categories.
"The leader must understand that he leads us, that he guides us, by convincing us so that we will follow him or follow his direction. He must not get it into his head that it is his business to drive us or rule us. His business is to manage the government for us."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A leader can be defined as a person who influences a group of people, organization, etc. in to achieving a set out or common goal. The aim of this paper is to identify the different approaches to leadership, but there is no single definition of leadership, as it can mean many different things to many people depending of their profession, environment and leadership style (Mielach, 2012).
...ications of her political choices. And that is why she is worth studying as a political leader that shaped the world.
To begin, one of the factors that contributed to the instability of the Weimar republic was the presence of new political ideals. Marie Juchacz unintentionally highlights that reason in her speech to the National Assembly. She states, “This is the first time that German women may speak as free and equal members in the parliament… We can now for the first time speak of a new Germany
During the second attempt, I chose to adopt a democratic style of leadership. Once again, I was no more informed than any other member of the group concerning the correct performance of the task; hence I chose not to make autocratic decisions. I did however note the need for structure in any given task. Therefore, the...
Clinton is the former First Lady of the United States, Secretary of State, and United States Senator. Merkel and Clinton are two women who are making a positive difference around the world as evidenced by the strong visible networks. Another example is Angela Merkel making a positive difference in the world by strengthening the transatlantic dimension while maintaining the relationships with Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac (Muller-Harlin). Another example is Hillary Clinton making a positive difference in the world by advancing the United States interest and political issues while pushing women’s issues (Goudreau). Clinton is holding the number four American power position as Secretary of State in the United States. Women are becoming more visible in politics all around the world. For example, people are joining the Red Cross and making a difference around the world. Women are helping to build strong economies that work for all. Women are building strong visible networks around the world as they stand up for what their community want. Women are speaking up to share the concerns of their neighbors, schools, and civic groups. Women are the voices demanding justice, equality, and opportunity. Merkel and Clinton have effective leadership skills. Strong visible networks demonstrate the effective leadership skills of
In April 2010 she told the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament that "there are definitely lessons that have to be learnt. I for one feel that I have learnt from that experience and there are things I may like to have seen done differently"
Chancellor Merkel started life as Angela Kasner, on July 17th, 1954 in Hamburg. Her parents, Horst, a Lutheran pastor and Herlind, a teacher, raised Angela and her brother and sister in a small town north of Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic, what the rest of the world considered East Germany. This was the communist side of Germany, heavily aligned with the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until 1990. Young Angela grew up in Templin, taking part in the Free German Youth movement. She showed leadership skills while just a teenager, and became a district board representative and secretary of Agitprop. This was the agitation and propaganda arm of the youth movement. Angela went on to study physics at the University of Leipzig, and earned her doctorate in 1978. While there, she married physicist Ulrich Merkel, but they divorced in 1982. She worked as a chemist at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1990. When the wall separating Berlin fell, Angela’s life took a new course.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated, “If Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for”.