Identify a recognised leader of today who you admire. Describe their leadership and communication style and explain whether their approach is well suited to a globalised environment.
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Identify a recognised leader of today who you admire. Describe their leadership and communication style and explain whether their approach is well suited to a globalised environment.
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Here are some possible choices you could focus on if you are going to choose topic b). These are only some illustrative examples but you should have little trouble researching any of these particular individuals. You’ll notice that they come from various fields but in each case, there is a clear sense in which they are leaders of people. Almost all of them are still very active today, except for two (Steve Jobs and Nelson Mandela) who died fairly recently.
Business | Political | Community/sporting/military |
Gail Kelly | Angela Merkel | Noel Pearson |
Jeffrey Bezos | Xi Jinping | Wayne Bennett |
Steve Jobs | Julia Gillard | Alex Ferguson |
Jack Ma | Tony Abbott | Guus Hiddink |
Debra Cafaro | Tony Blair | Rufus Black |
Carol Meyrowitz | Barack Obama | Kevin Sheedy |
Sheryl Sandberg | Nelson Mandela | Leigh Matthews |
Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Clinton | John Eales |
Alan Joyce | David Cameron | Adam Gilchrist |
Elon Musk | Benjamin Netanyahu | Richie McCaw |
Bill Gates | Aung San Suu Kyi | David Petraeus |
Liu Chuanzhi | Hillary Clinton | Colin Powell |
Warren Buffett | Malcolm Turnbull | Peter Cosgrove |