MY NAME IS :

ROHANI BT AHMAD
MATRIC NO :

814939
MY TOPIC

IS:

CHARISMATIC

LEADERSHIP

BARRACK OBAMA
44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

DEFINITION
Charismatic leadership based on the leaders capability to converse and
behave in ways that reach followers on a basic, moving way, to motivate
and inspire. A charismatic leaders should have the gift to speak on a very
commanding emotional level, and may be include some personality
traits.(ask.com)
A charismatic leaders is when the leader gathers followers by using their
personality or charm, as oppose to external power or charm. Charismatics
leaders pay great attention to scanning and reading their environment and
are good at picking up the moods and concern of both individu and larger
audiences. Then they modify their actions and words to suit the situations
(ask.com)

 German Sociolist Max Weber defined charisma as a certain quality in

an individual personality by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary
men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least
specifically exceptional powers or qualities ( articlebase.com)

WHY I CHOOSE OBAMA AS THE MODEL OF CHARISMATIC

LEADERSHIP
EARLY LIFE
Obama was born on August 4, 1961 at Kapiolani Maternity &
Gynecological Hosp, In Honolulu, Hawaii.
His mother Stanley Ann Dunham was born in Wichita Kansas and
was of mostly English ancestry. His father Barrack Obama Sr. was a
Luo from NyangOma ogelo, Nyanza Province Kenya.
Obama Parents met in 1960 in a Russian Class at the University of
hawaii.
The couple married on Februari , 1961. Separated when Obama Sr.
went to Harvard University and dovorced in 1964. Obama Sr.
remarried and returned to Kenya visiting barrack in Hawaii only once
in1971. he died in automobile accident in 1982.

 While his mother Dunham married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro, who was
attending college in Hawaii. When Suharto, a military leader in Soetoros
home country, came to power 1967, the family moved to Indonesia.
From ages six to ten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including
Besuki Public School and St. Francis of francis of Assisi School. In 1971,
Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents,
Madelyn and Standley Armour Dunham.
With the aids of scholarship attended Punahoe school, a private College
Preparatory School until his graduate from high school in 1979.
His mother returned to Hawaii in 1972, remaining there until 1977 , when
she went back to Indonesia to work as an anthropological field worker.
She finally returned to Hawaii in 1994 and lived there for one year before
dying of ovarian cancer.
Following his high school Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend
Occidental College. Later in 1981, he transferred to Columbia University
in New York City where he majored in Political Science with a specialty
in International Relation and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983.

CARREER
He started work for a year at the Business International Corporation,
then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. After that , he
was hired in Chicago as Director of the Developing Communities
Project ( a church based community organisation)
In shortly, Obama accepted a two year position as Visiting Law and
Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to
work on his first book. He then taught at the university of Chicago
Law school for 12 years as a lecturer 1992 to 1996 and as a senior
lecturer from 1996 to 2004 teaching Constitutional Law.
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 , succeeding State
Senator Alice Palmer as senator from Illinoiss 13th District.
He sponsored a law that increased tax credits for low income
workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased
subsidies for childcare.

 In January 2003 Obama become chairman of the Illinois Senates Health

and Human services Committee.
On February 10,2007 Obama announce his candidacy for President of
the U.S in front of the old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois .
Obama emphasized issued of rapidly ending the Iraq war, increasing
energy independence and providing universal health care, in a campaign
that projected theme of Hope and Change
On November 4 2008 Obama won the presidency with 365 electoral
vote to 173 received by Mc Cain. Obama won 52.9 percent of the
popular vote to Mc Cains 45.7 percent. He became the first African
American to be elected President. Obama delived his victory speech
before hundreds of thousand of supporters in Chicagos Grant Park.

ACCOMPLISHMENT:
Among the accomplishment s in Barrack Obama s life are these: Graduated from University of Columbia , Bachelor in Political Science
(1983), Law degree from Harvard with academic honors (1991)
First Africans-Americans editor of the Harvard Law Review
Elected Illinois State Senator 3 times
Professor of Constitutional law for 12 years
Elected U.S Senator
He is the author of two best selling books.
Became the African-Americans President of the U.S
Ended U.S involvement in Iraq

 Brought most of the troops home

Stabilized financial system
Rescued the auto industry
Helped it regain profitability
Won a Nobel Peace Price (2009)
Expanded Health Care access to millions of Americans

SUMMARY
In Conclusion , I hereby declare that Barrack Obama is the most suitable as the
charismatic leaders he behave based on :
Despite being raised by a single mother in a lower middle class home and
being biracial at a time when this was not common, he managed to get a good
education, have a successful career as a law professor, get elected to the Illinois
State Senate ( where was re-elected several times) and become a U.S Senator
from Illinois.
Before the election , President Barrack Obama attracted the attention of
Americans and foreigners alike with a seemingly charismatic nature. A
charismatic leader has an uncanny ability to draw others to his side and move
them to accomplish a cause bigger than themselves.
Barrack Obama is a charismatic leader because he knows how to send the
messages, make the audiences attracted to his speech and follow his orders.

 He is an extremely good public speaker and he know how to connect to the

population. He knows what to say and when to say it.
Last but not least he also support Islam and their legal laws and want to have
Islam s Shariah Law to be the law of the land in the U. S

THE END
THANK YOU