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 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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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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woman become so well-known. Oprah Winfrey is a strong woman who faced many problems while she was young and less fortunate. So quite a few people found her resilient to the things she faced. At the age of 9 Mrs. Winfrey was raped multiple times by her family member and friends (who her family members trusted) starting at the age of 9. It took her time to come back from that but in the process she abused drugs at an older age. Oprah Winfrey is also encouraging to
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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 The individuals Pathway to Leadership- Born into a broken home in rural Mississippi on January 9‚ 1954 Oprah Winfreys troubled adolescence and life experiences made her the amazingly influential woman she is today. Testing her circumstances and blossoming into an inspirational young actress‚ producer and highly powerful host of the popular ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’‚ the power of media enabled her to enlighten millions of viewers and develop into a “global media leader‚” while her
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Heroes of Capitalism- Oprah Winfrey We all know the name ‘Oprah’. It is a name that has been in millions of households for twenty-five years. Oprah Winfrey is an internationally recognized‚ award winning talk show host‚ actress‚ producer‚ and humanitarian. She has helped lives of less fortunate in many selfless ways; what many don’t know is that Oprah was once poverty stricken as well‚ and rose to overcome many obstacles that came her way. Oprah was born on January 9‚ 1954 in an underprivileged
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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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and more? Who is a continuous inspiration to all races‚ genders‚ and religions? None other than Oprah Winfrey - who dedicates her power‚ fame‚ and fortune to making those around the world an opportunity to live‚ learn‚ and love. While thinking of someone who has not only benefited other people‚ I wanted to choose a being who has inspired me from a young age. When I was 8 years old‚ after school was "Oprah time" for me; she genuinely wanted to make a change in the world and make others happy‚ which
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Oprah Gail Winfrey‚ a famous black writer‚ talk show host‚ and actress‚ was born on January 29‚ 1954‚ in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi .She was born to unwed‚ teenage parents. Her mother Vernita Lee was eighteen and a housemaid. Her father Vernon Winfrey was twenty and in the armed forces. Winfrey was named Orpah from the Book of Ruth in the Bible‚ but her name was later changed to Oprah because it was easier to pronounce. As a youth‚ Winfrey moved to Milwaukee to live with her mother. Her mother’s
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