Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader and an emperor who conquered majority of Europe in the early of 19th century. He was born on 15 August 1769 in the island of Corsica. During the French Revolution, Napoleon rise his power in military area in France.
After getting a political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself as an emperor in 1804. Intelligent, ambitious and a skilled military leader, Napoleon successfully waged war against several European countries and also managed to expand his own empire. However, in 1812, after a tragic French attack of Russia, Napoleon abdicated the power two years later and was exiled to the island of Elba.
In 1815, he briefly returned to power in his Hundred Days campaign. …show more content…
It was more situational than transformative but he was also a man who listened to others and had solutions to the problems. One of the greatest traits in Napoleon Bonaparte leadership style was his ability to lead people. Leaders are expected to lead people but how one leads, to what extent one can lead the people and what he can make them achieve is what sets leaders apart. Great leaders are not always the best at their job but always the best in getting the best out of others.
Napoleon is hailed as a strategist, as an administrator and as a general. But he is not hailed equally as a warrior. He wasn’t the mightiest of all in history, not even in his era. He had the mightiest of armies and that cannot be put together by just someone who is a great warrior. It can only be achieved by someone who is a great leader. To lead the mightiest army, one has to be the most effective planner, one has to be the most influential inspirer and he must have the confidence of all and sundry in him to …show more content…
He paved the way for a livelihood that people wanted and he managed his state better than what his counterparts, predecessors and successors managed to.
Napoleon Bonaparte leadership style also sheds light on ambition, on how to train people to make them the best at their job and how to pragmatically plan ways to accomplish the objectives. Napoleon Bonaparte, as a leader, was a doer, a motivator, a man who people looked up to and