Essay about Leadership Profile of Deepak Chopra - 3313 Words

Leadership Profile Ââ€" Dr. Deepak Chopra Introduction Servant-leader and transformational leadership models will be the lens through which this study will examine Dr.Chopras leadership style. This paper will analyze the leadership effectiveness of Dr.Chopra in his key leadership position as a world renowned medical practitioner in the U.S, and also examine how events throughout his life have ignited his passion to serve as a leader. Description of the Leader The leader Ive chosen to write about is Dr. Deepak Chopra, popularly acknowledged as one of the worlds greatest leaders in the field of alternative medicine and unified consciousness. It was during the years I worked for a fortune 100 company in the US, that I was†¦show more content†¦Detailed Profile Early Mentors (from Dr.Chopras autobiography): My most important mentors were my parents. My father was a very prominent physician and cardiologist. Once a week he would see patients free of charge for charity. And patients would come from all over the country, actually, to see him, on trains and buses. My mother would cook food for them and pay their bus fare and train fare. And my little brother and I would escort the patients in to see my father, who would not only write the prescriptions, but pay for the medicines for them as well. And at the end of the day, my parents would sit with me and explain what had happened during the day. And the moral of the lesson always was that if you want to be happy, then you have to make somebody else happy. I grew up with this notion that you must always have somebody in your life that you can trust, that you can confide in, that you can seek advice from, and that you can learn skills from. And the best skills come not in school, they come from the people that youre close to, that care about you, that you care about. At one point in time, I have three, or four, or five people that I am acting as a mentor for. And I listen to them mostly. I listen to whats going on in their life, whats going on with their friendships, in their relationships. To be a mentor you need to understand whats going on in a young persons