Leadership Capacities
Diana, Princess of Wales possessed many great leadership qualities including empathy, adaptability, compassion, and determination; however, some may question her personal and moral choices. During her marriage Diana, Princess of Wales had multiple affairs including her riding instructor. Charles, Prince of Wales also had an affair with a woman from the past. After the scandalous divorce, Diana’s love life was constantly followed by the public and may have contributed to her death. Morally, Diana may not have always set the best example with her marriage, except Diana always stayed devoted to her two sons and charity work (“The British Monarchy,” 2009).
Recovering from her divorce and public ridicule made Diana stronger. She was no where near a perfect morally correct person, but she learned from her mistakes and kept improving herself. She struggled a lot emotionally and physically due to Bulimia, although she overcame that disease as well. She had the capacity to change and learn from the past, which many people have trouble doing. Diana may have started out as a naïve young common teacher; nevertheless she became a strong and adaptable leader.
By the end of her life, Diana was admired and respected by many people. She became a public role model for young girls struggling with Bulimia. Diana worked and fostered relationships with many charities in her lifetime. Her ability to show empathy and understanding to different races and cultures has inspired many to do the same. As Diana became an older more experience leader, she was able to create coherence with the public. Diana had an understanding of the people due to her similar upbringing and background. Her enthusiasm, determination, empathy, and compassion made Diana, Prince of Wale an excellent leader and role model (“The British Monarchy,” 2009).
The Royal Household at Buckingham Palace (2009). The Official website of The British
Monarchy. Retrieved from http://www.royal.gov.uk/Home.aspx
Retrieved on October 05, 2009
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Diana’s moral purpose certainly seemed to be contradictory at times. Although she remained steadfast in her altruism and maternal responsibilities, she lacked morality in her marriage. She managed to strive and succeed because she was extremely resilient. She learned from her struggles and applied those learned principles toward progression instead of dwelling on failure. This cultivated a change in her and resulted in positive change to the world caused by her.
ReplyDeletePeople identified with her realistic image that included salient deficits. And, as a celebrity, they respected her for her authenticity, candor, and sustenance. She capitalized on her position of fame to share her experiences and justifications for support and change of specific causes. Perhaps she felt as though compromising her famous identity as a royal and loyal wife would jeopardize her ability to effect change. Nevertheless, she stuck to her platform, regardless of others’ perceptions and drew on her misfortunes to create coherence among others in similar situations, and others who can empathize with her situation.
Diana was certainly a multi-dimensional individual. Much like Lance Armstrong, her personal life was not always morally correct. However, her devotion to her children and to the many charitable organization she worked with allowed her to find her moral compass and led her to be widely respected. I believe that many people respected her because of her human-ness and how she was like many people in many ways. I think that by bringing this out in your writing you have captured her ability to build relationships, inspire people, and make a difference in the lives of many through her tireless efforts to help people.
ReplyDeletePrincess Diana does a good job of meeting most of Fullan’s qualifications of leadership. Princess Diana has great moral purpose with her ability to care for others instead of herself. She worked tirelessly to help the less fortunate and that was moral. Her ability to associate with the people came easy since she was one of them. The trait was key to building a following.
ReplyDeleteKnowledge building was her greatest quality and it lead to her having a bigger following. The media was very beneficial to her cause. Since the media followed her everywhere the exposed her cause to the people. Her willingness to put herself out there for her cause was noble.
She met most of the requirement of being an effective leader except in an area that I feel is important for being respected. I feel political figures are role models and they need to set examples for other to follow. Her actions hurt her relationship with the people. Her actions remind me of President Bill Clinton and his extra marital relationships. How can we trust someone who is dishonest and lies to their spouse and their followers?
Robbins
ReplyDeleteWhat impressed me about Diana was her ability to overcome adversity. She was not perfect, not many great leaders are. Many have to learn from their mistakes to be successfully. For Diana she was watched and judged constantly; her life was that of a reality TV show. Through it all she was able to forward her morals and love to those that matter most, and that was her children. In addition she became a role model for many women across the entire world for her ability to adapt and stay true to her core beliefs. What made her so great was her ability to have other relate to her so well. She created her own identify and provided a template for others to copy.
It was through her upbringing that allowed people to see her as a person and not as an infamous royal. She was able to relate to children of divorcés, teachers, people starting life on their own without much support. It was these qualities that made her existence in the royal family a little more relatable. There is something more reputable about a leader who came from nothing and made something for themselves.