Is Mother Teresa is the world greatest leader in history?
By leoling
@leoling (173)
Singapore
September 24, 2009 5:55pm CST
Recently i have read a book title The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership by John C. Maxwell. He said leadership is influence. And I extracted this sentence from the book: "In voluntary organizations the things that work is leadership in its purest form: influence"
So if you know story about Mother Teresa, she help the poor childrens and people at that time, and her action lead to many followers and volunteers to follow her to help poor people. She was probably the most respected person in the world at that time. When she talk, people listen and she had many followers and volunteers around the earth. She had faced many challenges and difficulties and overcome all the problems.
All these are the character of leadership. So what do you think?
Link for info of Mother Teresa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
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3 responses
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
29 Oct 09
Hi leoling, if she was a leader she was one with a bad example to follow most certainly. Whilst volunteering amidst the slums of poverty she imposed her catholic views against birth control on a populace which would have been better served without her advice.
@votenoonpineapple (235)
• Canada
5 Oct 09
From what I've heard, she believed that suffering brought you closer to God, and that she would enforce certain things to encourage this, while she helped at the same time. For example, she built hospitals which basically consisted of one room with many beds, one toilet in the corner, and insisted that no one be allowed to leave their bed to walk around or have friends/family visit them.
