Influential Leader

INFLUENTIAL LEADER/FOLLOWER PAPER:

Mother Teresa

TO: SETH KASTLE/RYAN OLSEN

ADVANCED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

SECTION: VA

SPRING 2014

MOLLY WANG – 999067047

APRIL 25, 2014

Introduction

Mother Teresa was born Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. When she was twelve, she felt strongly the call of God and the responsibility to help others, and then she became a member of youth group in her local paish called Sodality. At the age of eighteen, she left her parental to join the Sisters of Loreto and became a nunin Ireland. She receives the name Sister Mary Teresa after ST. Therese of Lisieux. On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta (Mother Teresa Official Site, 2014).

On 7 October 1950, Teresa received Vatican permission to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity. Its mission was to care for the hungry, the naked, the homeless, and all the people who suffered. By the introduction on the wikipedia “It began as a small community with 12 members in Calcutta, and today it has over 4,500 Sisters running orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centres worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Europe and Australia”. Mother Teresa continued her work among the poorest of the poor all over the world until her death in 1997. She was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Mother Teresa gave her everthing to the people who need help during her life time. The dedication spirit of...