...resource. Explain how the resource is relevant to your essay topic? Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey Speaks : Insight From the World's Most Influential Voice Ebook I searched the GCU library for books by or about Oprah Winfrey. The book talks about Oprah Winfrey as a whole and includes how God has gotten her to where she is today. Permalink http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=26297&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_121 Student Summary Starting on page 120 of the book Oprah tells us how by having faith in God she was able to overcome many obstacles in her life. She was able to take control of her destiny by understanding that God is the center of the universe and that every choice individuals make can lead us either towards God or away from him. GCU Style Citation Winfrey, O., & Lowe, J. (1998). Oprah Winfrey Speaks : Insight From the World's Most Influential Voice. New York: Wiley. Resource #2 Your Topic Resource Name Resource Type Explain how you accessed your resource. Explain how the resource is relevant to your essay topic? Oprah's at it again, declaring she's a Christian By Marsha West Renew America Newsletter I did a search online for Oprah Winfrey’s Christian World View. This article provides me with information about how Oprah Views Christianity. Permalink Student Summary Within this article they are talking about how she has some beliefs of Christianity,...
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...Oprah Winfrey Life of Struggle This article explores Oprah Winfrey’s which was not all roses like people think it was in this article “Oprah Winfrey the Name of Success” is her life story and how she overcame adversity and how her home life help her to become the star that she is today. It all started when she was born out of wedlock to a teen-age mother. At this time, her mother left her in Mississippi with her grandmother who was very poor and very religious, this influenced Oprah to go to church and become the best that she could be. Oprah’s mom came back and wanted her to live with her, so she moved to Milwaukee but life was not that glorious, her mom like her half sister and brother better than her. Then Oprah moved to TN and was...
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...Chosen Leader: Oprah Winfrey There are many great leaders throughout the world but the leader that our group chooses to write about is Oprah Winfrey - one of the world’s most influential women. Oprah Winfrey was born in 1954, she is a famous American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. The reason why we choose Oprah is because our group has 5 ladies, all ambitious and want to be successful in life. Oprah is an example of a woman that had overcome many difficulties in life and became one of the richest women. Studying about her will help us apply her leadership style and hopefully be a better leader in the future. Why do you consider her as a leader? According to the definition of leadership we studied in...
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...Entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey Marzette L. McKinnis OMM 614 Dr. Zelihic September 9, 2013 Entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey is in my opinion the epitome of a successful American entrepreneur. I chose an article on Oprah Winfrey for this paper because we share many character traits such as strength, independence, and generosity to name a few. Additionally, she exudes positivity and has an inspirational, energizing charisma that affects everyone in her presence. Like me, Oprah realized at an early age that we are responsible for our own futures. She overcame extreme adversity to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America today. Harvard Business Scholl professor, Howard Stevenson defines entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity absent regard to resources currently controlled (Schurenber, 2012). Despite growing up poor, enduring racism and sexual abuse, Oprah Winfrey achieved success through sheer force of her personality. An article entitled, “Oprah Winfrey: America’s Ultimate Brand”, discusses how she forged her $1 billion dollar fortune, which today has increased to $2.9 billion. She started her entertainment career at a radio station in Nashville while still in high school. She became the youngest person to anchor the Nashville news at age 19, as well as the first African American woman. Oprah hosted a morning talk show in Chicago that was so successful, within a year it expanded to an hour and was renamed “The Oprah Winfrey Show”....
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...Leaders and Leadership Styles Sonya Small South University Online Faculty Britt Organizational Behavior/MGT3002 November 11, 2014 Debbi Fields Mrs. Field’s at the age of 20 began her company in 1977 in Palo Alto, California as Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery. Mrs. Fields believed in her motto “Making people feel special and important.” Mrs. Fields did not come from a wealthy family growing up, but she had a vision for herself to become a great business woman and entrepreneur. Mrs. Fields set her company on the Leadership-participation model. “A leadership theory that provides a set of rules to determine the form and amount of participative decision making in different situations (Robbins, Judge pg. 385-386).” When she started out she didn’t wont cookies that were made of imitation ingredients she believed that her cookies should be made from real products. She also believed that happiness is found in friends, family and enjoying what you do. When Mrs. Fields began her business her husband bet her on her first day that she wouldn’t sell 50.00 worth of cookies, realizing over half the day was gone and her husband was going to win the bet she took a platter filled with her cookies out into the street and began giving out her cookies by the end of the day she had cleared $75.00. Mrs. Fields was much of a transformational leader...
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...Oprah and her Leadership Styles There are very few people on this planet that have the ability to be recognized solely by their first name and Oprah is one of them. She has been called “arguably the world’s most powerful woman” by CNN and Time.com. The American Spectator dubbed her “arguably the most influential woman in the world”. For many Oprah Winfrey is the embodiment of the American dream where the idea of economic opportunity and prosperity is attainable to anyone who would be willing to work hard and be a good citizen. Surely we have many things to learn from someone who has been able to come from a humble background to become one of the most influential women in the world. Oprah Gail Winfrey, who was actually named Orpah after a character in the bible, was born on January 29, 1954. Her family found it difficult to properly pronounce her name and would continually pronounce the “P” before the “R”. She was born into poverty in rural Kosciusko, Mississippi to a teenage single mother and experienced considerable hardship throughout her childhood. She was initially raised by a supportive grandmother, who taught her to read at the age of three, but at the very young age of six she was sent to live with her mother in an inner-city neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the age of nine she found herself sexually molested by male relatives whom continued to do so until the age of fourteen where she became pregnant but lost her son in infancy. Oprah then moved in with...
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...Donelle Kates Professor English ENGL 1101 - 930 11 Feb 2016 Summary and Response Essay ( create own title) Oprah Winfrey impact can not be measured in words, She has influenced millions across the globe through the power of words. Touching the hearts and souls of her admirers through her; T.V. show ( The Oprah Winfrey Show), book clubs, movies, broad way, charity work, and her own magazine ( O magazine). Carmen Wong Ulrich wrote “On a seismic scale of impact, Ms. Winfrey is a 10, with aftershocks felt at both poles. This is how her influence stacks up.” According to CNNMoney.com in January of 2006, Oprah ranked second only to Google as the biggest brand newsmaker of 2006. Behind her was Amazon, ebay, and iPod. Oprah Winfrey is our modern day Moses, chosen by an higher power bless with a gift to influence an entire culture with charisma, charm, and elegance. Oprah Winfrey life is bigger than herself, she extends her hand and opened doors for her own protégés. Dr. Phil success has taken on a life of it’s own, his talk show became the second highest rated talk show along with eight best-selling books. Others gained enormous notoriety being associated with Ms. Winfrey, interior designer Nate Berkus, with his own home line at Linens ‘N Things; Bob Greene, Oprah’s personal trainer and fitness guru; Suze Orman money diva; Mehmet Oz, M.D., health guru; and her two newest additions, Robin Smith, love and relationship psychologist, and Rachael Ray, TV chef and magazine powerhouse in her...
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...addressing why he or she is in the leadership role, and comparing both leadership styles. In addition it will identify traits that I can learn from the successful leader along with identifying the strengths I have, which can be beneficial to the successful leader. Oprah Winfrey is a successful leader who strives to see change in the world and help other people. She may not have been born into leadership but she has brought herself to where she is today through determination, good will, and her strengths. Winfrey is a world icon and is one of the most successful women today who has given many people inspiration and has moved many women over time. She is an individualistic and makes a good leader, directing new projects, and motivating others to act on them. Why is the leader successful? Oprah Winfrey’s success as a leader embodies both transformational and charismatic leadership to accomplish the tasks that she envisions. Her charismatic leaders helped her to lead the National Child Protection Act in 1991where she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to establish a national database of convicted child abusers. In 1993 this bill became the Oprah Bill Law by Bill Clinton in name of the Oprah Bill law (Lussier and Achua, p. 332). In 1986 her transformational leadership helped form her own production company called Harpo Productions to bring entertainment projects into production. Two years later television history was made when Harpo Productions announced...
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...one cannot deny that society is based on founding myths, a collective identity forged around common landmarks and shared values. As elsewhere, but even more so the myths of “The American Dream” in the United States is a great example. Indeed it promotes the idea that not only is personal fulfillment due to honesty and hard-working but it is based also on God’s will. As a captain of industry and a generous philanthropist , Rockefeller is a case in point. He was a role model who likely fostered the American spirit of competitiveness, innovation and entrepreneurship. In the same token, we studied the rags-to-riches life of Oprah Winfrey in an article taken from the website onlineessays.com. Oprah Winfrey overcame the obstacles of being an African American girl in the South in the 50s and 60s to achieve her goal. She started her own show which soon became the Oprah Winfrey talk-show. Her outlet was a tool to broadcast her principles which influenced America. As well as funding her magazine, her website and her own...
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...Oprah Winfrey: An Inspiring Leader Of Today Rhonda Whiteman Central Methodist University Abstract A black female born in the Deep South to poor unwed parents, during the mid 1950’s, Oprah Gail Winfrey had very little chance of becoming one of importance, much less becoming the first black female billionaire in the world. This paper will explain Oprah’s difficult childhood and continue on into her adult life explaining how she succeeds not by chance, but through perseverance, generosity, and inner strength, she wears her heart on her sleeve and has the ability to listen to her public in a way that no other has achieved. She inspires hope and inspiration to millions by sharing her imperfections of just being Oprah, overcoming diversity, proving to her faithful audience that anyone’s dream of success can truly become a reality. Biography Life for Oprah Gail Winfrey started out January 29, 1954 in a small poor town deep in the south of Kosciusko, Mississippi. An unwed mother named Vernita, informed Oprah’s father about the conception after she was born. Vernita realized that she could not make a living for her and her young daughter, so the decision was made to leave Oprah with her paternal grandmother, while Vernita moved to Milwaukee. Oprah was a very bright child learning to read by the age of three, and appeared in front of her first audience for her church Easter program. Oprah at a young age, moved...
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...According to Daft (2008, p. 4) the definition of leadership has been discussed since ages in the academic environment but scientific studies have started in the 20th century. There are a lot of suggestions about its definition one of which is that leadership is nothing more than a romantic myth – people hope that their problems will be solved by someone’s sheer force of will. One of the popular definitions is “Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes” (Daft, p. 5). Some people cannot distinguish the difference between a manager and a leader. It is well-known that you can be a leader without being a manager. Bennis and Nanus propose that “managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing” (Are Managers Leaders, 2011). In order for everyone to be an effective leader they have to be able to find the right balance between moral, social and business characteristics of leadership. According to Yukl (1989, p. 6) an effective leader is generally someone that leads by example and other people just tend to follow because they believe what they do is the right thing. A commonly used measure of leader effectiveness is how well the leader’s group fulfills its tasks and attains its goals. Another indicator is the attitude of followers toward the leader. A very important measurement of the leader’s effectiveness is his contribution to the quality of the group...
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...view of Skinheads forever. The Skinhead subculture started with the Mods in the early 60’s in England. The Mods were working class youths but looked classy in dress. They listened to reggae and frequently went to night clubs that played ska music. Nearing towards the mid 60’s many of the Mods wanted a harder look that more represented their working class roots. The kept the clean cut Ben Sherman shirts and their love for reggae and ska music but began to sport shaved heads ( in part to counter the popular hippie movement), Levi jeans and steel toed boots which is what many of the youths wore to their factory jobs and thus the “Skinhead” was born. At this time there was still nothing racial about being a Skinhead. Jennifer Abbots wrote an article about skinheads titled True 'Skinheads' Are Not the Racist Thugs of Media Fame in the New York Times saying that, “Instead of opting for the flamboyant, fancy-dress escapism of the Mod and Teddy Boy youth cults before them, the skinheads embraced working-class fashion… They also borrowed from their working-class West Indian neighbors, adopting trilby hats and crombie jackets, peg-legged striped suits and love for ska… The original skinheads loved to dance to these ska beats, often frequented all-black nightclubs” (Jennifer Abbots).Black and white unity in the scene was inevitable. The Skinhead was a direct result of the Jamaican...
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...and Asia It is unbelievable the amount of influence that Oprah Winfrey has had over the lives of millions of people all over the world. She has become a demi-god in America. There are people who are ready to worship the ground over which she walks. She has lived the Great American dream, a veritable tale of rags to riches with the right amount of glamor added to it. Born in 1954 to unmarried parents, Oprah was raised by her grandmother on a farm with no indoor plumbing in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Oprah's childhood turned into a nightmare because of sexual abuse that she suffered. After suffering abuse and molestation, she ran away and was sent to a juvenile detention home at the age of 13. In 1968, at the age of 14 she gave birth to a premature baby who died soon after birth. An incident of this nature can devastate the entire life of a person. But Oprah Winfrey came out of it a stronger and fiercely determined individual. Her story is one of unrelenting focus and determination. Oprah's tryst with the world of entertainment began when at the age of three she began speaking in church. By the time she was a teenager Oprah was touring the churches of Nashville, reciting the sermons of James Weldon Johnson. Crowned Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville at 17, Winfrey visited a local radio station, where she was invited to read copy. She was so good that she was hired to read news on the air. While still in school, Oprah became the first African-American and the first woman to anchor...
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...benefits everyone involved – owner, employee, customer, and consequently society. II. Brief Business History Marcus graduated from Marquette University in 1995, but decided not return to his family’s very successful car dealerships in the Miami area. Instead, he blazed his way through the ranks of AutoNation during his late twenties to regional manager of 65 stores in 11 states. At the advice from Lee Iacocca, a close family friend, he chose to pioneer a path into the RV industry that did not have a nationally organized structure. He founded Freedom Roads LLC in 2003 and started buying up mom-n-pop dealerships across the nation using the AutoNation blueprint as a guide. By 2005, Crain’s Chicago Business recognized him in their “40 under 40” article with 57 dealerships in his portfolio. In 2006, Camping World...
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...1996). In Memphis I took training courses and was qualify to teach first grade students in Woodstock, Tennessee. On May 4, 1884 I purchased a first class ticket to Nashville, Tennessee on the train, I was outrage when a train conductor order me to give up my seat for a white man I refused and I got off at the next stop after causing so much commotion (Baker, 1996). As soon as I reached Memphis I hired a lawyer and sued the railroad company and winning a settlement of five hundred dollars, but the Tennessee Supreme Court later overturned the decision. After justice was not service to and I was treated unfair I started writing about race and politics issues in the south. I used the pen name Iola to start writing weekly article in the Living Way, which led my article to be published in nation black newspaper and periodicals in the United States. Eventually, I became owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight and later the Free Speech. In 1891 I was fired from my teaching position because of...
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