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Leadership: Angela Merkel
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Source: Jana Hensel (2021), We have Angela Merkel!
Agenda
Leadership & important characteristics
Leadership Styles
Angela Merkel & her way to lead

 Influence
 Motivate
 Communicate
 Problem solving
 Coach and Teambuilding
 Change management
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Leadership & the important characteristics
Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of

individuals to influence and guide followers or other
members of an organization
Initiates Action/ Proactiveness

A few important Motivation
Characteristics
of a Good Providing guidance
Leader:
Creating confidence
Building Morale
Co-ordination
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Leadership Styles
Transformational • Focuses on empleyees

Leadership • Influences employee satisfaction and performance
Transactional • Transaction between reward and performance

Leadership • Transaction between punishment and performance
Laissez-Faire • Leader avoids involvement / absent when needed

Leadership • Combine with another style to make it effective
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Leadership Styles- Continued..
• For the service of the people and the country

Servant Leadership • Gives space for self-organization and personal
development
Autocratic • Individual control over all decisions

Leadership • Fast decision making/ negative impact on moral
• Less control than autocratic leadership

Democratic • High personal freedom and participation of group
Leadership members
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Angela Merkel
 Born in 1954
 Elected in 2005
 Achievements
• First female German chancellor
• Most powerful woman in the world
 Challenges
• Financial crisis
• Refugee crisis
(Source: Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2021) 6

Influence Followers Establish “Person of the year” 2015.
credibility
Nuclear Power Plant

Engage
Be open to Influence others and
influence followers build a
connection
Leadership is a collective
activity.
Share your
Leadership is gender-neutral passion
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Motivation
Helmut Kohl's
Mutti(Mother)
cabinet
Pragmatic Way
Defines the problem in step by step Boldness Self-restraint
Good Strength of
Simplicity Relationship will
Practical
Perfectionistic approach leadership
Patience
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Communication
Communicate relentlessly
Simplify and be direct
Listen and encourage input
Illustrate through stories
Affirm with action
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Decide and Solve Problems
Black October, 2008
“We tell savers their deposits are safe”
Source pic1: Financial Times, 2008 : 2008 pic of Chancellor Merkel with Minister Steinbrück 10
Source pic 2,3: Christoph Hasselbach, 2017, DW
 Greece issue, 2008
Greece had borrowed much more money than it was able to make in revenue through taxes.
It was looking for financial aid from Germany and EU in general to revive.
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Source: Awesomemengers, n.d., Grexit & Greece Crisis Source: Dave Granlund n.d., Awesomemengers, Grexit & Greece Crisis
 Nuclear disaster Fukushima
This disaster prompted a momentous U-turn

on the nuclear policy.
Merkel announced that Germany would

abandon atomic energy altogether.
 Fukushima Nuclear disaster
Source: Opensource investigations , n.d., The Aftermath of Fukushima Disaster 12

 Refugees to help boost economy
Germany’s responsibility for world peace.
The German economy needed young qualified workers to

replace its aging workforce.
At the end of 2019, Germany reported almost 1.15 million

refugees and 309 000 asylum seekers, making it the biggest
host country for refugees in Europe.
Source: Griff Witte and Luisa Beck , 2019, The Washington Post, Angela Merkel welcomed
refugees to Germany: They’re starting to help the economy
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Coach and build Teams
Foster Transparency
Collaboration and
cooperation is key
Create clear objectives

and goals
Build mutual trust.
Pave the way for

successors.
Source: Christoph Hasselbach, 2017, DW 14
Source: The New York Times (2015). How Germany Prevailed in the Greek Bailout Source: icons8 stock images, n.d., Covid-19
Manage Changes
Franco-German 2008 Global

Nord Stream 2 Covid-19
Relationship Recession
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Source: Pop & KanKr, 2021 Angela Merkel's last trip to France! Source: Financial Times, 2021,Why Nord Stream 2 is at heart of US warnings to Putin
Bibliography
 Christoph Hasselbach (2017). DW, Opinion: The welcome realists, viewed 17 February 2022,
< https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-the-welcome-realists/a-38347898>.
 Dave Graunlund, n.d., Awesomemengers. Grexit & Greece Crisis, viewed 19 February 2022,
< https://awesomengers.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/grexit-greece-crisis/>.
 Griff Witte and Luisa Beck (2019), The Washington Post, Angela Merkel welcomed refugees to Germany.
They’re starting to help the economy, viewed 17 February 2022 <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/angela-merkel-welcomed-refugees-to-germany-theyre-sta
rting-to-help-the-economy/2019/05/03/4bafa36e-6b60-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html
>.
 Plop & KanKr (2021). Angela Merkel's last trip to France!, viewed 19 February 2022,
< https://cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/angela-merkels-last-trip-france>.
 The New York Times (2015). How Germany Prevailed in the Greek Bailout, viewed 16 February 2022, <
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/world/europe/how-germany-prevailed-in-the-greek-bailout.html>.
 Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2021. Biografie Angela Merkel. [online]
Available at: http://www.hdg.de/lemo/biografie/angela-merkel.html [Accessed 17.02.2022].
 Jana Hensel (2021), We have Angela Merkel!, viewed 20 February, 2022, Available at: <
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https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-12/feminismus-angela-merkel-bundeskanzlerin-emanzipation-politi

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Leadership: Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel & her way to lead

Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of

Initiates Action/ Proactiveness

Transformational • Focuses on empleyees

Transactional • Transaction between reward and performance

Laissez-Faire • Leader avoids involvement / absent when needed

• For the service of the people and the country

Autocratic • Individual control over all decisions

• Less control than autocratic leadership

(Source: Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2021) 6

Nuclear Power Plant

Defines the problem in step by step Boldness Self-restraint

Simplify and be direct

Listen and encourage input

Illustrate through stories

Affirm with action

Black October, 2008

“We tell savers their deposits are safe”

This disaster prompted a momentous U-turn

Merkel announced that Germany would

 Fukushima Nuclear disaster

Source: Opensource investigations , n.d., The Aftermath of Fukushima Disaster 12

Germany’s responsibility for world peace.

The German economy needed young qualified workers to

At the end of 2019, Germany reported almost 1.15 million

Create clear objectives

Build mutual trust.

Pave the way for

Franco-German 2008 Global

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