The President and CEO of Hewlett Parkard and eBay

She got pregnant at 15 and continued to go to high school graduating from Reid Continuation High School as class valedictorian. She then attended California State University, Long Beach and studied business administration.

Good leadership is a process of influencing ans encouraging people to work as a team with efficiency to achieve the organizational goals (Drouillard & Kleiner, 1996). Different leaders has different leadership styles, a good leadership style can be very efficiency for an organization which can develop and encourage employees. According to Darling and Leffel’s (2010) framework, this essay will discuss how Steve Ballmer as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft, the leadership styles as both Creator and Connector made him such a successful leader of Microsoft. This essay will argue that Steve Ballmer has the leadership style as Creator and Connector, and he has the abilities to develop well, encourage people to towards the Microsoft to success.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Director of the Hutchins Center for African American Research at Harvard University, and an esteemed Alphonse Fletcher University Professor. According to his Harvard University profile he is an “Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, institution builder…and the recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees and numerous prizes.” Professor Gates was also the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 1973 he earned his Bachelors in English Language and Literature from Yale University, and in 1974-1979 he got his Master’s. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge (Department of African and African American Studies). Throughout many of his texts Gates provides examples of the ambiguity of language and identity, and the oppressive role ideology plays in the black community; allowing readers to apply the idea of deconstruction to our own daily experiences

After receiving an A.B. In History at Princeton and graduating cumlaude in 1981, Kagan went on to Oxford to earn a M. in Philosophy, which she did in 1983. From there, she attended Harvard Law School, serving as supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. In 1986.

From 1992 to 1997, Betsy DeVos also worked for the Michigan Republican Party. Moreover, she won a reelection to her post. In addition, Betsy DeVos holds the distinction of being an advocate for the charter school system in Detroit. Currently, she also remains a member of the board of the foundation for excellence and education. For those unaware, Dick DeVos remains the former CEO of the company Amway. Moreover, Richard DeVos remains her father-in-law. To expound further, she hails from a unique background. Moreover,

After graduating high school Meghan went to the University of Maryland for a semester, but quickly realized the big university life was not for her. She came back home, worked, and went to school at Oakton Community College. There she discovered her love of the arts working in the community theater. She also met her bridesmaid Heather Anderson.

Sandra Day O’Connor was born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. While growing up throughout her adolescent years, she spent her summers at her family’s ranch in Arizona and attended school in El Paso. She attended the Radford School for girls and Austin High School. At the age of sixteen, she graduated high school. After high school, she was accepted to Stanford

When deciding who is a great leader Gigi Darricades the CEO of Valley Wide Health Systems Inc. Gigi was born and raised in Chile in the city of Chuquicamata. From there her parents got a passport and were able to come to the U.S, but she was not able to get one and there for went to boarding school in Canada and later when she turned 18 she entered the U.S. that way. She then attended a Community College because of the out-of-state tuition being so high this was the cheaper way to go. Gigi worked as a TA or teacher assistance and selling auto parts, she did this for 6 to 7 years. The University of California Berkeley was her next stop and got a Bachelors of political science and then later went back to that same college, went to the school of public health where there was only 12 students and graduated with a Masters in health care administration. She later moved to New Mexico where she worked at Presbyterian Hospital and ran the rural hospital and later merged the two together. After that she meet her husband and moved to Utah where she worked for a multinational health care doing rural health care. Which was hard because the culture was mostly men and not female oriented. After that she then attended Law school in the University of Utah. Gigi thought her husband was going to get transferred to New Mexico for his job, she went ahead and took the state board there. After all he did not get transferred there, but they did end up going to Wyoming and 18 months later took the

Born on March 26, 1930 in Texas. Sandra Day O’Connor spent her youth on her family’s ranch in Arizona. In 1950, she had graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in economics, later attending the university’s law school and received her degree in 1952, graduating third in her class. O’Connor struggled to find a job and worked without pay for the

Walters attended the all-female Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, graduating in 1953 with a bachelor’s degree in English. Her first job was as the assistant to the publicity director of WRCA-TV (a local NBC affiliate). After sharpening her writing and producing skills at NBC, Walters moved to

Kathleen says that being able to rise above who was a Republican or Democrat and focus on the issues was key to being a good governor (Documentary). Though she had grown up as the daughter of a governor, Kathleen Sebelius was still surprised by how visible the office was to the public (Documentary). She wasn’t aware about how excited people got about meeting the governor, she was treated just like a Hollywood celebrity. She had known that the office was going to come with a lot of handshaking, but signing autographs was a surprise.

Biography: Paragraph 1: Walter Whitman Jr. born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, Long Island, New York and his mother name was Louisa Vanvesor and she was Dutch

At twenty-three, Carly Fiorina had dropped out of UCLA Law School with no plans about what she wanted to do with her future. However, almost twenty-two years later, she became president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company - the first woman CEO of a Fortune 20 company. She was given a mandate by HP’s board of directors to “shake things up” and was later named the "Most Powerful Woman in Business" by Fortune magazine. Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly twenty years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions (Cara Carleton Fiorina. (2014).

No doubt she is a successful professional and a powerful woman who has created some enemies along the way such as the journalist who may not have adored Mary Doe throughout the way. In my opinion, her approach is effective to keep Disney out of negative publicity as Disney is still considered as the best-known companies in the world. Her experience has saved the company during crisis management and has helped the

Meg Whitman was born Margaret Cushing Whitman on August 4, 1956, in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. The youngest of the Hendricks and Margaret Cushing’s three children, Meg grew up in Cold Harbor Spring, New York. Her father worked for Wall Street while her mother was a stay-at-home mom. Confident and bright, she didn’t shy from intelligence, and in 1974 she graduated from high school after just three years. She entered Princeton and earned a bachelor degree in economics. In 1979 she earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. Thereafter, she