Barbara Jordan- Leadership Analysis

ABSTRACT

In the era of 21st century, when the world is moving towards globalization, taking along the employees within the same direction as the business, is the biggest tasks to the management. Leadership is the motivating factor in any organization. Therefore, the following research paper will analyze the great leader of her times, Barbara Jordan.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTii

Introduction1

Discussions1

Life Profile of Barbara Jordan1

Career of Barbara Jordan2

Leadership Achievements3

Extra Ordinary Qualities4

Challenges in the Leadership of Barbara5

Personal Opinion about Barbara8

Obituary9

Conclusions10

References12

Barbara Jordan- Leadership Analysis

Introduction

Leadership is the most influential and the responsible task that any leader faces in his professional career. The good qualities of the leader are highly significant in order to motivate and unite the employees and the organization and take them in one direction. Therefore, the following research paper is analyzing one of the great leaders of her times, Barbara Charline Jordan. The research paper will include the personal life of Barbara, her leadership style, the extra ordinary qualities she possessed, the challenges she had faced and the solutions to them.

Discussions

Life Profile of Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936, in Houston and died of pneumonia and complications of leukemia on January 17 1996 in Austin. She was the daughter of Benjamin M. (a clergyman and warehouse clerk) and Arlyne (a housewife; maiden name, Patten) Jordan. She has acquired the education from Texas Southern University in 1956. She has then gone to Boston University for her LL.B. in 1959. After completing her studies, she has come in Politics and was got associated with the Democrat Religion Baptist.

. She has done many achievements in her life such as she has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with many other medals. She was the only African American lady was has been buried in the Texas State Ceremony after her death.

Career of Barbara Jordan

As being the best and the shining student during her school days, she has inclined more towards politics and finally, she was admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State Bar of Texas, both in 1959. The journey for the success continued and she joined the District of Columbia Bar in 1979. She had engaged in practice of law in Houston during the years 1959-66. She was also the administrative assistant to county judge in Harris County in 1964-66. The success and the achievements kept continuing. Some of the major achievements were:

Member of Texas Senate in Austin in 1966-72

President of Tempore in 1972,

Member of Labor and Management Relations Committee and Urban Affairs Study Committee; Member of U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC,

Representative from Eighteenth Congressional District of Texas in 1973-78

Member of Judiciary Committee, Committee on Government Operations, special task force on Ninety-fourth Congress

Steering and policy committee of House Democratic Caucus; Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, professor in 1979-82

Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Professor of National Policy, beginning in 1982

Member of President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs in 1968

Member of environmental health committee ...