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Leadership: Ernesto Che Guevara and Martin Luther King JR

Ernesto Che Guevara and Martin Luther King Jr. were influential leaders who fought for social justice. Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary who helped overthrow the Cuban government through armed conflict. He believed socialism was the solution to social injustice in Latin America. Martin Luther King Jr. was a non-violent civil rights leader in the United States who sought equality and justice for African Americans through peaceful protest and demonstration. Both leaders fought oppression through different means but were driven to create more just societies and improve conditions for the poor and disenfranchised.

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Leadership: Ernesto Che Guevara and Martin Luther King JR

Ernesto Che Guevara and Martin Luther King Jr. were influential leaders who fought for social justice. Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary who helped overthrow the Cuban government through armed conflict. He believed socialism was the solution to social injustice in Latin America. Martin Luther King Jr. was a non-violent civil rights leader in the United States who sought equality and justice for African Americans through peaceful protest and demonstration. Both leaders fought oppression through different means but were driven to create more just societies and improve conditions for the poor and disenfranchised.

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Leadership

Ernesto Che Guevara


and
Martin Luther King Jr.

Satyamitra Singh
Shivam Sharma
Kalyani Agrawal
Vasudeo Sharma
Background – Ernesto Che Guevara
• Born on 14 July, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina.
• He was a medical student and went to Mexico to practice medicine.
• During his bike ride, he witnessed poverty and oppression in Guatemala.
• Guatemala was witnessing corruption and American capitalists seized land of local
people for profit and export.
• CIA overthrew President Arbenz of Guatemala who tried to redistribute land to people.
• He took the lessons of Guatemala to Mexico. He met exiled Cuban revolutionary Fidel
Castro and decided to help them free their country.
• Che became commander in Castro’s guerilla army.
• Executed by Bolivian Government during Bolivia revolution.
Background –Martin Luther King JR.
• Was born in Atlanta, Georgia on Jan 15 1929
• In 1951 he got a bachelor's of divinity followed by PHD from Boston college
in 1955
• Martin had to face racism during his childhood till adulthood
• He was a non-violent person who used his words to bring change
• He gave his famous speech in 1963 in Washington DC
• Martin was nominated as the president of Montgomery improvement
association
• He had no intention of being a civil rights leader. His dream was to become a
good minister
Ideals
• Guevara took stock in socialism, particularly • Inspired by advocates of non-violence like
Marxism. In the simplest terms, Che thought Mahatma Gandhi. 
society should be regulated by the community
as a whole, not a single-party government, led
by one person.
• Sought equality for African-Americans. He
He wanted to remove social injustice from the wanted people to live with Individuality,
society and believed it can be achieved through mutuality and respect.
a formation of socialist society.

He believed that to create an idyllic socialist


society in South and Central America, the only • To maintain an abiding faith in
solution was to overthrow the America and an audacious faith in the
Cuban Government through armed revolution. future of mankind.
Leadership Style
• Machiavellian Leadership:  • Transformational Leader: Inspired a shared
         Outcome >> Process vision

• Task oriented behavior and dominant • Courage to stand up


against the segregationist policies
• Brought change through violence
• Level 5 leadership : Humility + Will
• Extraversion- Communicate openly and
• Influential speaker
frequently
• Empathy towards poor and oppressed • Non-violence strategy to bring social change
made him a more respectable leader
• Not open to new viewpoints and
• Participative leadership
attitudes
• Agreeable- seek and drive consensus
within a team-based culture
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Ernesto Che Guevara Martin Luther King JR.

Technical Skills • Trained in Guerilla • Influential orator and


warfare tactics writer
• Certified Medical
practitioner

Human Skills • He was controlled and • Modest and listened


very precise in his social to everyone's
interactions viewpoint
• Good coordination with • Was able to set an
his comrades example for others
through his personal
achievements

Conceptual Skills • He helped peasants to • Non-violent


build health clinics and demonstration to
schools and taught oppose an oppressive
them to read. Also regime.
formed a land
redistribution plan.

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