Can anyone think of anyone is/was the famous or hated leadership person in the world? Name a few people anyone can imagine.
Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin – Russia, Mao Zedong – China, Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King J. – USA, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill – UK
Norman Kirk, Richard Seddon, Michael Joseph Savage, David Lange, and Helen Clark – NZ. Maori people – Apirana Ngata, Whina Cooper, Te Puea Herangi, Tahupotiki Wiremu Rātana, Te Rauparaha
Nelson Mandela – South Africa, Dalai Lama – Tibet, Mahatma Gandhi – India, Adolf Hitler – Germany, Eva Peron – Argentina, Fidel Castro – Cuba, Che Guevara – Argentina, Napoleon Bonaparte – France, Ashoka – India, Muhammad -Arabia, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs – USA, Angela Merkel – Germany, Aung San Suu Kyi – Myanmar
Yes, many disabled people became leadership –
Ferdinand Berthier (Paris, France) and Dr. Jordon I King (New York, USA), David Buxton, Rt Hon Lord Jack Ashley, Dr. Terry Riley (England), Armand Pelletier and Bernard Truffaut – France Deaf men. Marie Jean Philip, Marlee Matlin, Marylin J. Smith, Ruth Benedict, Annie Jump Cannon, Claudia Gordon – USA, Judith Gordon Low, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna- England Deaf Women.
We added more people with disabilities such as Minnie Baragwanath (Blind person), Helen Adams Keller (Blind Lady), Harriet Tubman, Robert Martin, Galileo Galilei, Thomas Gore, Judy Heumann.
The deaf blogger met several Deaf people in the past during the holiday and attended several conferences in the USA and Europe. The most popular people were Armand Pelletier, Lord Jack Ashley, Dr. Jordon I King. Armand and Bernard encouraged the deaf blogger to continue studied and become a deaf historian-blogger. Lord Jack Ashley helped the deaf blogger to maintain the leadership role and to update the skills within the Deaf community and Disabled community.
In New Zealand, Norman Kirk, Richard Seddon, and Michael Savage were the Prime Ministers, and only two important men were the most rememberable for their leadership roles at the time of changing the society and during the Depression Years in New Zealand.
It is looking at Abraham Lincoln and his connection with the Deaf Community in the USA. The most signification was on April 8th, 1864, he signed the college’s charter and President Grant signed the diplomas for each student from the beginning to present.
Dr. Jordon I. King was the first Deaf President of the Gallaudet University after leading the massive protest by the Deaf community in 1988. This protest made a huge impact on many Deaf people around the world because the previous president was a hearing female, for she had no experience in sign language and Deaf culture. Many Deaf people protested for the right to remove the chairwoman of the Board of the trustees because she told the audiences that “the deaf are not yet ready to function in the hearing world.” The chairwoman’s statement reflects audism—discrimination based on audiological status. Many Deaf students, staff, families of the Deaf children, push harder to have their right to have the first Deaf President, and Dr. Jordon’s quote was, “Deaf people can do anything hearing people can do except hear.”
How can they do well in the past and the present anywhere in the Government agencies, workplaces, schools, disability organisation and other organisation such as Enabling Good Lives, District Council?
These people have had excellent skills to achieve and work together as a team player. The core leadership skills in every role anyone must need is called fundamental 4. Inside the fundamental 4, are four tools, which are self-awareness, communication, influence, and learning agility. The blogger will explain more on these four tips later on.
In the Leadership theories, we have the most prevalent influences on everyone in many countries, and they are: -Great Man Theory 1840s
– Traits Theory 1930s-1940s
– Behaviours Theories 1940s-1950s
– Contingency Theories 1960s
– Transactional leadership theories 1970s
-Transformational Leadership theories 1970s
– Situational Theories
– Participative Theories
For example, there is one theory called ‘The Crab Theory’ (formerly known as crabs in the bucket). Basically, in the Deaf community, the Deaf people struggling to achieve leadership roles, or try to get out of the bucket for a better life. Here is an article from Gallaudet University Crab Theory
Not all leadership people were no good because of the power became corrupt, living in strong communist countries. Many people can not escape from poverty, lack of economy, wars, and famine.
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