Cover Letter 2012
Definition of Leadership
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Leadership Assessment and Personal Analysis Results
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Leadership Environment Analysis
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Goals for Leadership Development
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Organizational Strategy
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Key Resources
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Changes and Reflections
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Definition of Leadership The NAACP ensures the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority groups and citizens; achieves equality of rights and eliminates race prejudice among the citizens of the United States; removes all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes; seeks to enact and enforce federal, state and local laws securing civil rights; informs the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and seeks its elimination educates persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action in furtherance of these principles. (NAACP, 2011) Leadership is the system of people protecting the rights of human and biodiversity of species safety, security and ability to mature. (Keisha L. Merchant, 2011)
Leadership Assessment and Personal Analysis Results “Mary McLeod Bethune created schools for black students and worked with several US presidents to make sure all children received a good education. Linda Brown was a little girl when she became famous for fighting the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in the Supreme Court. Her case, Brown v. Board of Education, helped all black children get a better education. Ruby Bridges also helped end segregation in schools. She was the first black student at her elementary school, and Ruby had to be very brave to stand up to all the people who didn't want her there. Sojourner Truth was also a slave, but she won her freedom by running away. After she was free, she preached to others about ending slavery and fought for free Blacks and women to be treated as equals with Whites and men. Harriet Tubman was another slave who worked to free slaves. She ran away because she was afraid of being shipped further south where slaves were treated very badly.� (Oracle Think Quest, 2011) My assessment is to be an educator, healer, and champion over civil injustices and coach for others to become socially independent from binaries that push the agendas of poverty and disparities of communities and health. I have understood that within my lifetime, the validation of a woman is justified as a mummification to classify the double shift of a working mother. It is evident that mothers can simplify the terms of motherhood, but to transition into the equity of dominance and power, the woman and marginalized populations of culture and esteem pressures an identity to progress in financial wealth and financial securities of ownership and capital. Therefore, my personal assessment that my lifetime may not allow me to fund my own dreams, but I will assist others to find their own way into creative construction of liberties and privileges of the unknown.
Leadership Environment Analysis
Loving God Our primary priority is to teach and lead people to develop a passionate, loving and personal relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit based on the truths of the Bible. Being a Loving Community of Believers As a demonstration of our love for God, we purpose to cultivate and demonstrate personal, loving committed relationships with the members of our church family. Sharing God’s Love with Others We share the heart of God, that he loves people and has given us the privilege and responsibility to proclaim his message of salvation through Jesus Christ to the people in our community and the world. “Spreading God’s Transforming Love” (Mustard Seed Church, 2011)
I have learned that the environments do impact our ability to think. The Mustard Seed Church was an organization that I was part of for thirteen years from the ages of 12 to 21. This organization taught me that people are in love with their influence, so watch what influences in your life. I grew to understand that social locations were forced as segregation and class marginalized people and their talents. I decided in this leadership plan that I would identify this church as a leader who led me into my courage to be passionate and responsible to my own goals. I found my goals to be idealistic because I could not be realistic in a world who could not accept my status in life, my authentic self. (George, 2007)
Goals for Leadership Development “PSI recognizes its corporate social responsibility to encourage sustainability and to participate in sustainable business practices, both internally and via the services provided to our clients. The term 'sustainable development' was popularized by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in its 1987 report entitled Our Common Future. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The 4 R's of reduce, reuse, recycle and recover are considered to be the base of environmental awareness and sustainable development, and a way of promoting ecological balance through conscious behavior and choices. It is generally accepted that these patterns of behavior and the "sustainable" choices made by consumers and businesses will lead to savings in materials and energy which will benefit the environment. PSI is committed to optimizing sustainable business practices as well as participating with and supporting our clients in their sustainability efforts and programs.” (Professional Services Industries, 2011)
This is my first corporation that came into my family’s life. They hired my mother when she was 28 years old. She spent twelve years in this corporation. They gave me my first opportunity to work in a corporation. I found that our social location did not give us the luxury to move up the financial chain in their corporation. I left the corporation to build my own life. My leadership goal was to find my authentic self. I chose to do soul searching because I was lead by poor leaders who told me I could not succeed unless I followed them my whole life and died wanting to be crowned in heaven. (Revelations, 2011) Though, I was not given healthy leadership goals as a child, this corporation became my first role model of business and responsibility. I was ten years old when I understood environmental goals. The first company was Hall Kimbrell that was bought out by Professional Services Industries. In this transition, they kept my mother on board. She would teach me my first lessons of work ethics, loyalty and reliability. I found in my own calculations that I would continue this goal of hers in my own life as a self-govern woman with goals of loyalty to my own vision. The 4 R's of reduce, reuse, recycle and recover are considered to be the base of environmental awareness and sustainable development, and a way of promoting ecological balance through conscious behavior and choices. (Professional Services Industries, 2011) My leadership plans are based on my life’s journey as to who I was in the past from learned behaviors, and how I had to achieve my own directions.
Organizational Strategy
“In 1895 Wells married Ferdinand L. Barnett, a Chicago lawyer, public official, and publisher of the Conservator. She settled in Chicago and adopted as her married name Ida Wells-Barnett. After 1895 she limited her activities to Chicago, but she was quite active in Chicago's rapidly-growing African-American community. In Chicago she wrote for the Conservator, published a book-length expose of lynching (The Red Record, 1895), and organized Chicago women regarding several causes, from anti-lynching to suffrage. From 1898 to 1902, Wells served as secretary of the National Afro-American Council, and in 1910 she founded and became the first president of the Negro Fellowship League. Throughout her life, Wells was militant in her demands for equality and justice for African-Americans, and insisted that the African-American community must win justice through its own efforts. She attended the 1909 meeting of the Niagara Movement, but she would not take part in the less radical National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which grew out of the conference� (Lovendar, 1997) This discussion around objective strategy around social responsibility becomes a political and environmental outreach for equality among the populations that are controlled by disease, decay and poverty. It is within this framework of leadership Ms. Wells becomes an important entity that demonstrates passion toward equality for those without legal representation. I have found that Harriet Tubman is another entity that created her business around freeing slaves, helping the military as a spy, and educating others to be liberated. These are organizational strategies not validated in our global system as scientific evidence of social responsibility and accountability in the business infrastructures, but it is a hypothesis that organizations that are effective strategizes to be responsible. The goals are to break the silence, reveal and direct people to be passionate about their responsibilities in social equality and financial equity to meet the needs and health of our community, environment and economy. Ida B. Wells became her own entity. She was able to represent herself in an age that did not see blacks as equal. I assure myself that my leadership plans would be inclusive starting with my own life as a construction of equality and equity means to social and environmental justice. I wanted to be the model for responsible and accountable practices that assure people that their diversity and creative selves would be protected and valued.
Key Resources
Retrieved by, Oracle Think Quest, 2011, http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_rights_leaders.htm Retrieved by, Mustard Seed Church, 2011, http://mustardseedchurch.com/welcome/vision-statement/ Retrieved by, Professional Services Industries, 2011, http://www.psiusa.com/about/sustainability.aspx? Retrieved by, CSI Library, 2011, http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wells.html George, Bill, True North, 2007. Bennis, Warren, The Essentials of Bennis, 2009. Retrieved by, Jones International University, Themes, Week One through Week Eight, Leadership Integrity Retrieved by, Sojourner Truth, 2011, http://www.sojournertruth.org/ Retrieved by, Harriet Tubman, 2011, http://harriettubman.com/ Retrieved by, NAACP, 2011, http://www.naacp.org/ Retrieved by, Birnbaum , 2000-2009, http://www.birnbaumassociates.com/developing-objectives.htm Retrieved by, Business Plans, 2011, http://www.businessplans.org/mission.html Retrieved by, Leader Values, 2011, http://www.leader-values.com/
Changes
I have reconstructed my leadership plan to add more diversity. I am going to add more non profit organizations and corporations that demonstrate excellent practices, mission statements and strategic intent. I will creatively weave a dozen of leaders’ and pathways of success (Jonas, 2011) into my leadership plan to demonstrate diversity and courage to create a platform of change. I have changed the format to each section to address the critical moments of leaders, corporations; services that compare and contrast the entity that I want to build in the near future. I personally, did not think of diversity within my own leadership plan. After serious consideration, professional feedback from the educator, I have decided that another level to my leadership plan can only increase my horizons into the future of who I desire in becoming, a healer. I have found that my opportunity to challenge and stretch myself in this case will allow me to grow and mature my voice. Our future will be diversified, so the opportunity to weave the examples of others in my leadership plan will create a forum of voices. These voices will show my range in thought and perspective. It is evident that my voice is innovative because most of my processes are combination and collaboration of witnesses. These suggestions that Dr. Jonas to diversify my leadership plan proves that I need to build my citing ability of how I construct my own ideas. I have so many leaders and role models that I can agree with Dr. Jonas that I leave out their work citations to implement in my own reflections. It is
almost as to listening to a pin drop. I have childhood quotes and lessons that I always integrate in my examinations, but fail to cite them because most of the people are personal love ones who hate when I disclose their beautiful wisdom and intelligence. It sounds crazy when plagiarism is so important in the academic, but most of these voices that I have included in my own voice want their hardships and developed education of life and identity kept in the grave. It was for my purpose only, but I am in college to bring their voice to the forefront, and I have failed to figure out how to integrate their research and validate their lowly voice in my mission and strategies. These intents are what most legal systems called material not copyrighted, but at the same time, anonymous voices. I have learned that we are as a society and culture not individuals but collective consciousness of legions of mass populations, generations that passed their ideas to their next age and usually it is a rock that speaks, symbolically the marginalized populations that are without an orthodox. I find that I have to reconstruct every section to visibly reveal the diversity in my plan, and so I have chosen to start over because the editing process would take forever to add and subtract segments and reconstruct sentences to build from my original plan. I have to develop this leadership as another draft. The first combinations in my last leadership plan was in the voice of who I wanted to be and the entity that I wanted to create,(the voices had added, anonymous and not copyrighted experts of community and loyalty suggestions are encoded as my own theories, but in fact they are evident that it took a village to raise me) but this last draft I will focus on the processes, procedures and policies of diverse groups that have inspired me to include their spirit and wisdom in my effective plans of the future. The reason why I did not add this level
in my previous report is because I wanted to work on maturing my own “original” voice and theories as a master student to build on my own hypothesis and thesis of observation and investigation. I personally wanted my journal to reflect my own thoughts, my creation and design to building a new construction of who I want others to be aspired and motivation to see the hardship and levels of development of my own personal journey. I wanted to show some formula of expertise that seems to be close to perfection due to my hard knocks to indicate the gems of true leadership of the next generation. I found that I wanted to locate my own “Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks or should I say, I wanted to change the Michael Jordan syndrome” within my own observation of self and self autonomy of finding my own true north voice. (George, 2007) The complexity of my journey in the critical moments that have shaped my understanding and wisdom as a leader of integrity, with the calculations of the readings for this term, discussions and reflections of the educator, scholars and should I say, Guardians, Idealists and Artists would lead me into the opportunity to collaborate with my “childhood” and my “academia” self. The complicated parts of the journal and leadership plan were to integrate the business models of corporations that were outlined over the term and the courageous leaders that implemented integrity and ethics. I have found that my ability to gracefully weave all of these parts clearly, accurately and concisely demonstrates my inability to master this approach at this time, but I want to press into another attempt to reach my goals of sophistication and mastery of my own “hypothesis” and validate communities that have overcome; at the end of the day because I am passionate about women of my social location reaching the highest level
of excellence in a culture of competition and capitalism that hegemonic ruling factor of natural taxonomy and classification that our identification and branding comes with dominance and power. I wanted to be the population that made my mark in my written examination and thorough pressure that location of diamonds is in people as well. My quest to validate their information and diversify my approach seems daunting. Today is the day that I have chosen to step out of comfort and conformity that the academia voice is greater in the path of a local mind that is pressing forward in the global struggle to exist in the heights of the greatest opportunities whether monetary prestigious glory, famous trust or academic promises, I wanted the opportunity to push my voice to meet the needs of diversity identification and in their own voices. My creative mind is genuine in the effort to be a scholar, and my emotional intelligent heart trusts the process to explore the possibilities of a biodiversity culture that meets the challenges of dysfunction and defect in a disturbed economic and environmental turmoil market. Business deals as usual cannot prevail over ethics and integrity (NIV, 2011, Proverbs) therefore, I am writing this leadership plan to prove scientifically that social responsibility and accountability in essence can only create diversity and elimination of discrimination in the business world. For this reason, the calculation of our professor to give reflection can only suggest the opportunity to build one case over another and to build collective of cases synonymously. I have design in this construction of identity that leadership is diversity and diversity is ethical unity. Thank you Dr. Jonas for this is an opportunity to build an empire with words, and fortify the walls with populations of diversity. I must start with my talk in order to solidify my walk. This journey reminded me of my childhood days
when my parents told me to never leave behind my siblings. I cannot believe that I have revisited that day when I was given an educational lesson that the value of life begins with how many people I can include. I trust that you were my guidance into the future of reestablishing my commitment in creating a plan that inclusivity is an importance even in the little strokes of the hand.