Claremont McKenna College: Leadership is a constant theme and emphasis at CMC. In fact, one of the ways we describe CMC students is "Leaders in the Making." Choose someone, fictional or nonfictional, historical or contemporary, whom you consider to be a leader. Suppose you are this person`s primary advisor. How would you advise this person and why?

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...Born not only as the second illegitimate daughter of traveling salesman Albert Chanel, but also abandoned by her father when her mother died when she was only 12 years old, she spent 7 years in the orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine, where she learned the trade of a seamstress...

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I would advise Coco Chanel to timely reconcile her relationship with her father, Albert Chanel, just as I have done with my mother, because a reconciled relationship with a loved one, whether that love is conscious or subconscious, will reveal emotions and perspectives that had never come to light before...