You can expect to learn a lot about leadership at business school, not just through core subjects but through the simple act of working and living with people from different countries and backgrounds.
This article was originally published in and written by Kirti Dhingra. The article was updated January with new content. The main image for this article is used under this license. IE Business School. Leadership Lessons From Barack Obama Barack Obama was renowned during his time in office for being a strong orator and calm during a crisis. To like this article and more Please Register here. Here are the leadership lessons you can learn from Barack Obama. Leading through a crisis When president Obama took office, the world was in the middle of a crisis sound familiar?
Charisma When Ben Tiggelaar, visiting professor at IE Business School and best-selling author, sat down to interview Barack Obama, the former president of the United States told him the secret to his skills as an orator is simple: tell your own story.
Motivating others and remaining calm under pressure You can imagine sitting at the helm of the United States in the Oval Office is a feet up on the desk, walk in the park kind of job, right? Listening During his presidency Obama read 10 letters from members of the public every day. READ: 5 types of leadership styles and when to use them 7. Being a decent person One of the qualities of a good leader and something president Obama has in abundance is decency.
Tags: Insights. Please Enter the Code Below 97 1f ff e3. Biden cautioned years later: "A piece of advice about that BFD stuff: assume every microphone is on. Obama has often been criticised for failing to tackle race relations but the image was described by the New York Times as showing how the President was such a "potent symbol" for black Americans.
The two men had been to the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the plane was waiting to go, and Clinton was taking his time. Eventually after much shaking of head and clapping to get his attention number 42 appeared with a sort of shruggy, huggy gesture of apology for number There can be few more awkward moments than sitting next to your parents at the basketball while they grab a cheeky snog.
So spare a thought for poor Malia Obama, who found herself in precisely this situation when her father took a break from campaigning in July to watch a game. The Obamas were, of course, caught on kiss cam as they watched an exhibition game between the American Olympic team and Brazil. It has been suggested he might even run a team after he leaves office and he once said: "I've fantasised about being able to put together a team and how much fun that would be.
There was a time, in , when Obama was dogged by claims from the star of the television show The Apprentice that he wasn't born in the US. One Donald Trump claimed Obama would not show his birth certificate because there was something on it he didn't like.
Perhaps, he suggested, it said Obama was Muslim. Obama addressed the claims at the White House Correspondents dinner that year by playing slightly altered footage of the moment Simba is held up to the light in the Lion King. The film played, with his date of birth in the lower left hand side, and Obama explained: "… that was a joke, that was not my real birth video, that was a children's cartoon. Trump was at the dinner that night. Obama "praised" him for "making the really hard decisions" like firing Gary Busey over Meatloaf in an episode of The Celebrity Apprentice.
Yet, despite his many critics, we stand behind our president and offer five reasons why we remain loving him! Five presidents actually failed to create a health insurance plan that was not exorbitant and that Americans, across the board, could participate in. This year, more than 8 million Americans still had access to quality and affordable healthcare insurance coverage through Obamacare.
Bush could not do it, but our Prez did! After nine long and debilitating years in Iraq, 4, U. Pentagon outside Washington D. The fourth hijacked jet, United Flight 93, crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside after passengers fought the militants.
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