Three people I admire for their leadership abilities

 

One leader who I admire is Taiichi Ohno, a Toyota engineer who is also known as the father of the 5S Toyota Production System. He was a Japanese industrial engineer and businessman, whose disruptive ideas became key across several aspects of businesses and organizations, such as sales, marketing, and customer service.

 

I particularly admire the vision he had when he came up with the 5S system, which basically emphasizes on sorting, setting in order, shining, standardizing, and sustaining, all of which are principles based upon which I attempt to conduct my own leadership and administrative style, as they provide me with a clear pathway to follow and add value from.

 

A second leader who I personally admire is Andrew Royce, CEO of Voyce, Inc, the multinational medical interpreting platform I currently provide freelance interpreting services for. He had the vision of realizing the suffering millions of non-English speaking patients were struggling with when attending medical encounters across the United States and Canada, so he created this high-tech based platform, through which English-speaking health care professionals get to fluently interact with their non-English speaking patients with the remote assistance of professional medical interpreters connected with them at the press of a keyboard in the devices installed for said purposes at their facilities.

 

Andrew reasoned, as his slogan says: “everybody deserves a voice”, and hence built his business with people in mind, creating a clearly neat example of a win-win situation kind of deal, as the non-English patients get to fully be able to convey their clinical concerns, the English-speaking health care providers get to reach out to a larger universe of patients, and Voyce and its freelance interpreters get to generate a legitimate income while assisting those two parties to understand one another.

 

A third leader who I admire is Mr. Claudio Bastos, former CEO at a multinational mining company joint venture I used to work for. Originally from Brazil, Mr. Bastos was a highly ranked executive who was appointed for his role by the head of three large multinationals on their own, which were VALE from Brazil, Mosaic from the United States and Mitsui from Japan. And one of the main factors they used to appreciate him for was his transparency and honesty to always convey messages in a sincere manner, despite sometimes them being hard to relay in the first place.

 

Mr. Bastos always looked at people in the eye and had a personal touch to make everyone in the organization appreciated and cared for, regardless of whether they were his peers, the Board of Directors, his secretary, company interns, janitors, or whoever. All such qualities earned him my admiration toward his leadership style.