Explores Oprah Winfrey's journey from daytime talk show host to media mogul, highlighting the leadership skills she developed along the way. Discusses how she overcame challenges such as people-pleasing and found her unique voice.
Oprah Winfrey isn’t just a public figure—she’s the wealthiest woman in the entertainment industry and the first African-American woman billionaire. But how did she rise from a daytime talk show host to a media mogul ? What leadership skills did she develop along the way?explores the challenges Oprah faced on her path to success and how she overcame them. He explains how she shifted away from people-pleasing, found her unique voice, and embraced vulnerability as a key leadership strength.
BILL GEORGE: Oprah Winfrey, and what’s on her mind is being responsible for your life and how you use your crucible for personal growth to achieve a great life.BILL GEORGE: Well, I was writing concurrently my book, True North now called Discovering Your True North. And we had a whole section on crucibles and it seemed this captured it perfectly. And I had a chance to interview Oprah over dinner in 2005 at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies.
BILL GEORGE: Well, she grew up to an unwed mother, very poor family in Mississippi. And the thing that saved her was what she called BTU, Baptist Training Union. She would go to church and as young as three and four, she was citing biblical verses and all the sisters sitting in the front row of a African-American church. And they were saying, “Oh, this girl is gifted.” And she got this idea that she was something special.
BILL GEORGE: Well, no one can say they all are, but certainly many of the greatest leaders of our lifetime. Look at a Nelson Mandela, look at a Martin Luther King, look at what they overcame. Going back into history, look at what an Abraham Lincoln overcame. And I think those that have actually have a deeper experience and they become more real and they no longer feel they have to put on a mask to please the world, but they can be their own person and be accepted as an authentic person.
BILL GEORGE: She is. And I haven’t really engaged her much as a business leader. I’ve engaged her as a human being. And I think as a human being, she’s amazingly warm and personable and real. Extremely authentic. And I suspect that gets translated in her business life.
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