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ONLEADERSHIP

Kofi Atta Annan

8 April 1938 - Now (age 74)

Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations.

From 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006.

Born in 8th April 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana with a twin sister.

His parents are Mr. & Mrs. Henry Reginald.

His father is Henry Reginald Annan is a local governor and had a great honour there. And he always did his performance as a chief.

His religion is “Protestantism”.

Born

 –1958: Degree in Economics, University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

 –1962: Graduate studies at the Institutes of International Affaires, Geneva, Switzerland.

 – 1972: Master degree of Science in Management, MIT,USA.

Education

Career 1961-1962: Annan started working as a

Budget Officer for the World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of Geneva, Switzerland.

1974 - 1976: Director of Tourism, Ghana. 1976 - 1996: Several positions in the UN

system. 1996 – 2006: Secretary-General of the

United Nations.

Secretary - General of the United Nations

Appointment: On 13 December 1996, the United Nations Security Council recommended Annan to replace the previous Secretary-General, Dr. Boutros-Ghali of Egypt. He started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997.

He worked here till last of 2006.

Work at Syria

From 23 February until 31 August 2012, Annan was the UN – Arab League envoy to Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there.

Kofi Annan resigns as Syria envoy• He said Syrian peace

mission impossible because the lack of international unity.

• There was international disarray over the bloody crisis in Syria. So Kofi Annan announced that he was resigning because of the failure of what he said had become a "mission impossible".

Annan quits as international envoy to Syria

Activities

• Millennium Goals (2000)  – Commitment of the world leaders to reduce extreme

poverty and to set out a series of time bound targets to be reached by 2015.

• The Global Fund (2002)  – Fund raising agency to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and

Malaria.

• The Global Compact (2000)  – Policy initiative for businesses to follow principles.

UN Resolution 61/225: World Diabetes Day

Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations General Assembly's passage of UN Resolution 61/225, to establish World Diabetes Day. The Resolution was the second UN General Assembly Resolution on a health-related issue (the other being HIV/AIDS). Resolution 61/225 is the only Health-related UN Resolution to pass by consensus. Sponsored by the Republic of South Africa and Bangladesh, the Resolution was passed on 20 December 2006.

Farewell addresses

• On 19 September 2006, Annan gave a farewell address to world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York.

• On 11 December 2006, in his final speech as Secretary-General, delivered at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence.

• He said that the United States must maintain its commitment to human rights, "including in the struggle against terrorism."

Personal life

• In 1965 Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from a well-to-do family. Several years later they had a daughter Ama and later a son Kojo. The couple separated in the late seventies. In 1984 Annan remarried to Nane Lagergrenat - a Swedish lawyer at the U.N.

Memoir

• On September 4, 2012, Annan published his memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, written with Nader Mousavizadeh, ISBN 978-159420420-3. The book is described as a personal biography of so-called global statecraft.

Honors• 2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana• 2001: Grand Collar of the Star of Romania.• 2005: Grand the Order of Liberty (Portugal).• 2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands

Lion.• 2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for

Services to the Republic of Austria.• 2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St

Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II (UK).

• 2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Award• 2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of

Lifetime Achievement.• 2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly

presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations.• 2002: winner of the Profiles in Courage Award.• 2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at

the University of St. Gallen.• 2006: Inter Press Service, International Achievement Award for

Annan's lasting contributions to peace, security, and development.

• 2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe.• 2008:Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize.

Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen (2003).

Definition of leader and leadership

Leader: A leader is a person who can or do influence people towards gaining the organizational objectives and goals.

Leadership: It is simply the art of to influence people towards the achievement objectives. Leadership is the process of influencing people towards the achievements of organizational goals (Naylor, 2004).

Analyze on Kofi Atta Annan

LEADERSHIP

Sources of POWER

Annan is holding a formal position as the secretary General of the united nations. So he has the Legitimate power.

Though he is in a formal position he has the ability to grant reward. So he has also the Reward power.

Cont’d…• Though he was in a formal position so he had the reward

power as well as the right to give threat or punishment. So he also had the Coercive power.

• His speeches are often a call to action and eloquently delivered to achieve moving the audience in such a way. An example of the charismatic nature of Kofi Annan’s speeches is this extract from his speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in 1999. The speech centres around globalization and how the worlds corporate leaders can make a choice to operate in a manner that takes into consideration the world at large.

• This speaching quality is his Expert power .

Cont’d…• In April 2001, Annan work on HIV/AIDS and

proposed Global AIDS and Health Fund to aware the world about it’s crisis. And awarded “Nobel Peace Prize” On 10 December 2001 with United Nations jointly.

• He knew by name almost everyone in the UN headquarters, regardless of position

• He acquired a big personal identity through this prize. So it is his Referent Power.

The Managerial Grid

(1,9)

(5,5)

Concern For Production

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(1,1) (9,1)

(9,9)

Managerial Grid

By paying much attention to the personal relationships with his subordinates, Annan applied the country club management (9,1) leadership style.

From (9,1) he gone (5,5). Where he paid equal attention on both people and production.

Then he reached (9,9). And made him self more successful and give maximum emphasis on people and production.

Democratic Leadership

• Annan spent his first months as the UN Secretary General visiting world leaders and stakeholders to inspire them, share his vision of the UN to obtaining feedback.

• His behavior towards his stuff was according to theory X. That is motivational.

• He inspired them to achieve the organizational or personal development.

• So his behavior leadership style is totally Democratic.

Transactional Leadership

• In promoting modernization, Annan applied the transformational leadership style, which shows that transformational leaders have special capacity to motivate their staff towards innovation. Modernization encouraged research and development in the United Nations, thereby challenging the intellectual capacity of the employees.

• Here he choose Transactional Leadership.

Trait Theory (By born)

• Kofi Annan's father Henry Annan was one of the beneficiaries of modern education in Ghana. He was also an elected governor of there. As Kofi grew up, he observed his father perform his duties as a chief. Henry Annan used to bring together both parties , listen to their arguments, and provide them opportunity to suggest possible solutions to resolve their disputes. Henry was a respected man and prominent local leaders frequently visited his household to seek advice from him. Such family background helped Kofi gain wisdom from an early age that he would use later in his life.

• So he has the leading quality from his childhood. That means he is a by born leader. And it support the Trait Theory.

Contingency Theory (Situational)

• Contingency Theory, which seeks to explain leadership effectiveness in terms of situational moderator variables.

• The contingency theory is a leader-match theory, which tries to match leaders to appropriate situations.

• He had the capability to take decision in different types of leadership style with motivational inspiration. It means Kofi Annan’ s leadership support Contingency Theory.

Criticism

• From 1993 to 1995. During this time, he was the supervisor of about 70,000 military and civilian personnel deployed in UN operations around the world. It was during that period that the world severely criticized him for his failure to respond rapidly to stop the escalation of genocide in Rwanda in 1994, which claimed lives of about 800,000 Tutsis.

Summary

• There is a general understanding that leadership is the key to the success of any organization.

• The study indicated Annan‘s leadership style had significant influence on bringing the peace process to an advanced level.

• He has the quality of inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individual consideration.

It was said of Gandhi that he had eyes that reflected the world’s sorrows. Annan’s seem to hold the world’s hopes………

Signature

Kofi Annan at a glance

Kofi Atta Annan ( born in Kumasi, Ghana on 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary - General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan won Nobel Prize on PEACH for Global AIDS and Health Fund in 2001 and the United nation was also co- recipient of that honor He developed a six-point plan for peace in Syria at the time of civil war.

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