Jack Johnson Case

After migrating from urban East Cleveland, Ohio to rural Toomsuba, Mississippi, at the age of 15. I personally know, the first leadership any child experiences are their parents. Sometimes, adversity in life will causes some parents to capitulate, because they may not possess the intelligence and/or humility needed, to overcome a specific hardship(s). In my case, it was a long-term crumpling marriage and the death of a sibling; that caused my parents to make a series of unhealthy decisions, unbeknownst to them, how their decisions would affect their remaining children’s lives. Nevertheless, one has had been afforded the opportunity to have been exposed to people who saw more in me than I could. Ms. Mattie Lee Whittington, was the first manager I ever had. Mrs. Whittington, was the co-owner of Red …show more content…
It happened to coincide with the day my family arrived. The owners were really vial people, but that taught me the importance of ethical leadership. After that experience, I changed careers started in banking operation as a Remittance Processor/Documentation Specialist (my first position in banking), Banking has a horizontal and vertical organizational structure-one can easily have several bosses. However, Roy Johnson was the Manager of Retail Lockbox- Roy, would do terrible things to employees just because he could i.e. Manipulate employee time, his abusive tone, and lack of common sense just to name a few. Although, thanks to Roy one knows how not to treat people. Then there was Robert Brown, my lead, Robert told me, something that I carry to this day in the reservoirs of my mind “Darlene, someone will always come along that will do it better”. I carry that information, because it piggy-backs on something my grandmother told me. She said, “it makes no difference, how long you have been doing something, because that may not have been the best way”. It is because of those two people my grandmother and Robert, respectively is the reason why it is important to embrace