board of directors

[flea]

For my management class, I have the following assignment:

A) pick a personal board of directors --a small set of individuals whose life and leadership you would like to emulate. (You don't have to have known all of these personally and they may be either historical or contemporary figures. But, there should be at least six and no more than ten individuals on your board.)

I am really bad at believing in role models. So far I have come up with 4 people: Barack Obama, Mary Patterson McPherson (who was the president of my undergraduate college and now sits on the Mellon Foundation board), and two former coworkers, neither of whom actually hold any managerial position.

Ideas? Who do you respect and want to emulate? All I can think of are cliches (Gandhi) and people who were good leaders (in some way or another) but not people I want to actually emulate.

Comments

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

My current professional idol is Naomi Levine, who's done a ton of interesting stuff beyond our (sort of) shared profession.

Do you have people like that in your field?

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, that helps. I can think of some overall-profession people.

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

Also, Julia Child.