Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

             According to Denning (2011), storytelling is an art of performance wherein the performance the storyteller, story, and the audience interacts in a meaningful ensemble.   The story that stood out for me that was delivered by one of the best leaders I consider was Steve Jobs’ commencement speech for the 114 graduating students of 2015 at Stanford University.   Jobs used a form of convincing communication.   When performing a convincing communication, the storyteller works with a collection of complex variables namely emotion, mood, and meaning (Denning, 2011).             Jobs began his speech with “Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.”  Jobs first story was about connecting the dots.  Jobs biological parents who were uneducated decided to give-up Jobs for adoption on a strict condition that the adopted parents are college educated.  The first adoption fell apart since the adopted parents chose to adopt

Polyarchy Reflections Leadership is a leader’s capacity to influence and shape the followers’ values, attitudes, and behaviors towards risk, failure, and success (Winston and Patterson, 2006).  According to Winston and Patterson (2006), leadership is creating and sustaining peace in the organization-not a lack of conflict but a place where peace grows.  Whenever a leader influences the follower's values, the followers develop the willingness to be more agreeable on the leader’s initiatives and trust that the leader will lead his/her team to success.  When the team is successful, it brings pride and self-confidence to every member of the team.  When every member of the team is confident, well-engaged and empowered, peace within the organization is sustained and inevitable. “Polyarchy is an extension, evolution, and synthesis for anarchy (chaos and no leadership) with oligarchy (order and traditional leadership)” (Obolensky, 2014, CAL, para 2).  As stated by Obolensky, polyarch