Dready
Junior Member
- Joined
- May 18, 2009
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Kazakhstan
- Current Location
- Kazakhstan
[FONT="]Hi, the other day I had a class where we discussed what is leadership, and everyone had to write a speech of a famous leader telling how they became leaders. This one is coming from Phil Jackson (Lakers coach) who I played in the class. Can you see if I said everything correctly? Thanks very much for your help.
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"Hello, everyone. My name is Phil Jackson. I’m 65 years old. And I hold the position of the head coach for NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers. Thank you very much for inviting me. I’m very glad to be here tonight. Today I would like to talk about leadership, what it is all about, how I see it, and how it affected my life and the life of others as well. [/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT="]First, I want to share the story of my childhood and how it shaped my personality. When I was a kid my parents worked in a church in Montana where they preached on Sunday mornings. So my mother and father were priests, and in a Protestant church they were called ministers. [/FONT]
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I had three brothers and a half-sister. We lived very modestly. I never watched TV and neither did my brothers. The first movie that I saw was in my senior year in high school. And the first dance that I had was in College. So, that’s the way my parents brought me up. I think it contributed to what I then become in the future and what I am now. Because today you see a lot of videos and a lot of news reports showing terrible scenes of violence that might be disturbing for the young generation. I wasn’t allowed to watch any TV, so I had avoided all that.
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[FONT="]I had 3 brothers, as I mentioned earlier, and growing up I had always been a leader among them. It was me who would decide what to buy for dinner, what to give our parents for their anniversary, what kind of books to read, and many other things. I don’t know why I had become a leader in my family then but I just felt that I had those qualities that pushed me to make my family better, to support it and help it no matter what".
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"Hello, everyone. My name is Phil Jackson. I’m 65 years old. And I hold the position of the head coach for NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers. Thank you very much for inviting me. I’m very glad to be here tonight. Today I would like to talk about leadership, what it is all about, how I see it, and how it affected my life and the life of others as well. [/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT="]First, I want to share the story of my childhood and how it shaped my personality. When I was a kid my parents worked in a church in Montana where they preached on Sunday mornings. So my mother and father were priests, and in a Protestant church they were called ministers. [/FONT]
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I had three brothers and a half-sister. We lived very modestly. I never watched TV and neither did my brothers. The first movie that I saw was in my senior year in high school. And the first dance that I had was in College. So, that’s the way my parents brought me up. I think it contributed to what I then become in the future and what I am now. Because today you see a lot of videos and a lot of news reports showing terrible scenes of violence that might be disturbing for the young generation. I wasn’t allowed to watch any TV, so I had avoided all that.
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[FONT="]I had 3 brothers, as I mentioned earlier, and growing up I had always been a leader among them. It was me who would decide what to buy for dinner, what to give our parents for their anniversary, what kind of books to read, and many other things. I don’t know why I had become a leader in my family then but I just felt that I had those qualities that pushed me to make my family better, to support it and help it no matter what".
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