Mother Teresa: a Biography of Saint Teresa of Calcutta

A leader is the one who is in charge or in command of others. Leadership is one of the best investigating areas in organization, at where the leader would be evaluating the effectiveness of leadership skills and promote healthy and safe surroundings to the group of people to commit to a course of action and to meet commonly agreed upon objectives. Therefore, a leader is the one who moves people physically and mentally. A great leader thinks analytically by reviewing the whole situation before making any conclusions and should be open-minded. Here I want to write about the life of Mother Teresa, her biography will be reveled in this essay through the lens of her leadership actions and influence. In my opinion, Mother Teresa is a great leader because she had leadership skills such as determination, courageousness, inspiration and much more.

Mother Teresa is well-known as she is the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women that is dedicated to help the poor. Mother Teresa was considered as one of the 20th century’s greatest humanitarians and she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016. This well-known nun and missionary Mother in the catholic church, devoted her life to care for the sick and poor. This makes her a great leader.

Mother Teresa is a great leader because she was determined. Mother Teresa was very concerned about the poverty in India. She went down to help and care those people who were poor and in need. Mother Teresa just wanted to help people so much that even if the people that she was helping had a deadly disease or were dying. She just never gave up. She was very determined about helping others because she really wanted to make the world a better place for the poor and needy. Mother Teresa was also a well-equipped leader as she learned the ways of medicine and made sure she had supplies along the food and shelter to house the sick and poor.

Mother Teresa is a great leader because she is courageous. Courage is having the strength of dealing fear and danger and Mother Teresa was never lacked of courage. Mother Teresa is woman full of courage because she always shows the strength to help the poor throughout her life even it is in the tough time. Her courage can be seen clearly through her devotion of helping others and her mission as to give the poor and needs a better outlook in their lives. Mother Teresa is a woman of courage and truly fits this description as she devoted her life in helping to make a positive change in the world. Her devotion has saved peoples’ lives and given the less fortunate a hope to be forever grateful.

Besides that, Mother Teresa is a true inspiration to others. She had positively influenced people (the rich) to create organizations, charities and many more. Mother Teresa’s mission was so powerful and beautiful that many other people inspired by it and wanted to do help those who were in need and make a difference in their community. There was a connection between community service and Mother Teresa’s mission in which both strive to deliver care, support, service to everyone holistically. In my opinion, being inspirational is the best character or skill of leadership that makes Mother Teresa a great leader. In the world of good people having great welfare, everyone needs an inspiration to go ahead. Mother Teresa was the inspiration for most of the people till now. She had spent her whole life to care the poor and sick people like a real mother. This great woman was always admired by many and also respected by the people all over the world. Mother Teresa is a symbol of sympathy and care of all the time.

Furthermore, Mother Teresa followed the contingency theory. The society of missionaries under Mother Teresa has spread all over the world and her deeds has been recognized by all. She helped people according to their situation, for example if people had no place to stay, Mother Teresa provide them a home to stay and same goes to the ill ones-Mother Teresa would take her time to help to heal them. In any situation, Mother Teresa would find a solution to help one in any way. She was unique as she always stand out of the crowd. She acts as a different leader in the world which makes a great leader, in my point of view.

Mother Teresa follows the servant-leadership state at where she sees herself as a servant first. She listens respectfully to what others have to say and accepts others and empathizes with them. She was also aware and perceptive. Many people approach communication as a matter of clarity and presentation style but Mother Teresa took the opposite manner at where for her, communication is mostly about listening and observing rather than just speaking. She used this technique throughout her life. Mother Teresa always pay close attention to others when they are speaking. She will always consider herself whether she need to listen more or not.

Following this, Mother Teresa is a very disciplined women who appreciated God by being a faithful person. She wanted to help the poor and needy people. Every work of her life was roaming around God. She was very close to God. She believed that prayer was an important part of life. She did not have much wealth neither health, but she happily helped the poor people with the faith and energy she had in God. She even decided to walk barefoot to take care of the poor people. She was tired as she had constant hard work but she never gave up. Mother Teresa also believed that if one could take care of the small responsibilities, life would reward one with bigger responsibilities. This made her possible for her to extend her scope of helping a lot of people.

In conclusion, Mother Teresa was an angel of hope to the people of Globe, but the ultimate fate of being a human being spare no one. Mother Teresa breathed her last breath serving the people of Calcutta. Her death made the entire nation to cry and many poor, needy and homeless and weak people lost their ‘mother’ for the second time. Memorials were made in her name and her death was the end of an era. Mother Teresa’s leadership skills do make her a great leader which makes people from all over the globe to admire her.