Woodrow Wilson Executive Leadership

WOODROW WILSON EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
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Woodrow Wilson is amongst the highly regarded American presidents with an accolade of 33 honorary degrees and a PhD and credited for radically changing the influence of U.S state house, a feat that won him a Nobel Peace prize for peace after World War I. He rallied for the ratification of the League of Nation’s Treaty to ensure maintenance of peace in the world. Before being elected president, he served as New Jersey governor where his leadership style amassed rapid popularity for reforming policies on campaign finance, shifting party nominations from party bosses to the public and enacting laws that obliged the remuneration of workers injured at work. Elected as America’s 28th president in 1912, succeeding Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow pursued revolutionary reforms that changed the perspective on White House.
One of the sterling reforms in the Finance sector was enacted with the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 that still provides the framework for the central bank’s monetary system. The Act weakened corruption and promoted economic competitiveness. With his compelling oratory skills, he is attributed to staunch belief in God by the Americans and through his Presbyterian belief he perpetuated his Freedom agenda with avidness while galvanizing public affiliation. However while his biggest mission was a reversal of the imperialistic custom of previous administration by procuring independence for Philippines and Puerto Rican Americans, some of his policies ultimately became more repressive. Woodrow got entangled in the WWI through provocation while initially resolving to be neutral, before his ensuing rigorous campaign on peace which altered U.S foreign policy enterprise.
During the war, Woodrow stoked an industrial rejuvenation with 20% increase in the manufacturing industry; however, his critiques reprehend his high –handedness attitude. He is attributed for most military confrontations especially within Latin America than any of his predecessors. His policies are blasted for putting America as the Global watchdog hence drawing America in the frontline and crossroads with its adversaries. Though the vast majority of the war efforts was aggressively patriotic-driven, Woodrow compelled American to pay more income taxes and buy liberty Bonds to pay for the war while disparaging and persecuting on dissenting opinions of the war denoting them as unpatriotic. He established th...