Oprah Winfrey: An Inspiring Global Leader Isabella Barrett-Jusay Woodbury University Author Note Written for Dr. Virginia Green. Class: Management 326 Contact: bellajusay8@yahoo.com Abstract This paper explores the leadership styles Oprah Winfrey applies and how they have helped her become a global leader. Oprah has impacted the world by sharing her life and vision through cross-cultural‚ servant‚ and transitional leadership. She is an influential global leader
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Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29‚ 1954 in Kosciusko Mississippi. She was left in her grandmother’s care after her parents separated. She was a brilliant child who learned how to read before the age of three by her grandmother and could recite bible verses. She also skipped two grades because of how intelligent and educated she was. Oprah grew up poor on a farm with her grandmother until she was six years old. She then moved to her mother’s house which was in a very dangerous and poverty-stricken
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Oprah Winfrey Takeover Oprah Winfrey is America’s first lady of talk shows and is known for her inspiring millions of lives around the world. She established the Oprah Winfrey leadership academy foundation‚ to which she has donated more than 40 million to create the Oprah Winfrey leadership academy for girls in South Africa which opened in January of 2007(“Oprah Winfrey’s Official Biography” 3). She is not just a big time philanthropist but also one of the greatest talk show hosts of our generation
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Oprah Winfrey Thesis: Oprah Winfrey became a household name because she is tenacious‚ charitable‚ and inspiring. Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29‚ 1954 in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi. Her mother was eighteen years old‚ single‚ and not ready to be a parent. Once Oprah was four years old‚ her mother moved to Milwaukee and left Oprah with her grandmother. They were extremely poor and lived on a farm‚ but Oprah was a highly intelligent child and did well in school. Her grandmother taught her to read when
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Q.1 Media Ownership The media mogul I chose is Oprah Winfrey because of her outstanding media ownership. Oprah is a huge success. “In 2003‚ Oprah became the first African-American woman to reach billionaire status. (Magazine‚ 2003)” I am going to talk about all of her organisations that she has started and owns by explaining each one and when they began. This makes it clear when her career really started off. “The concentration of media ownership is a process whereby progressively fewer
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Oprah Winfrey is an influential person because she has made a lot of different changes in the world and a lot of different impacts on other people’s lives. Oprah is very helpful and she goes out of her way to do a good deed. She has made many good books about life. She is very understanding. She grew up with a single teenaged mother and had to live with her very poverty-stricken grandmother who made dresses for Oprah out of potato sacks. But the good thing about her grandmother was that she taught
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for those who work to improve the lives of others. Oprah Winfrey is deserving of the Humanitarian award because she is generous‚ strong‚ and a role model for women. Oprah Winfrey is most well known for her donations to charity‚ which make her outstandingly generous. She has donated millions of dollars to various charities and organizations. Winfrey also uses all of the donations earned on her show directly for organizations such as The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Acadamy for Girls. Some other organizations
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contributed to the common good‚ Oprah Winfrey stands out as a unique and prominent figure. Although Winfrey was raised as a Baptist Christian‚ she does not currently affiliate herself with any denomination and instead chooses to advertise and educate on her path to spiritual enlightenment through New Age spiritual teachings of Ekhart Tolie. 2 Oprah has contributed to the common good by not only giving to multiple charities each year‚ but by founding and running the Oprah Winfrey Foundation which supports
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Her Body‚ Her Baby‚ Her Choice Abortion‚ it’s not a choice that any woman would ever want to have to make‚ but it’s a decision that she should have the right to make. If it comes down to the possibility of her and her baby losing their lives‚ she should be able to stop this possibly fatal pregnancy.The body is hers‚ the baby is hers‚ and the choice should be hers. If you disagree‚ make the choice for your own body. Abortion should be legal. What people may not realize is that‚ legal or not‚ abortion
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will discuss‚ the life of Oprah Winfrey and her rise to fortune and fame. I chose Oprah Winfrey because I find her as a very remarkable person with a fascinating life. She has also been an inspiration in my life encouraging me to succeed. To know that she has done so many great things in the world for others really empowers me. I believe she is a very strong‚ intelligent and successful woman. She has achieved so much success because of her dedication and passion for her life works. After graduating
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