Do You Have The Leadership Skills Of An American Icon?
Do You Have The Leadership Skills Of An American Icon?
This quiz puts you in Oprah's place during some of her biggest life and leadership decisions.
This quiz puts you in Oprah's place during some of her biggest life and leadership decisions.
After already becoming the first woman and the first black person to co-anchor at WLAC-TV at the age of 19, you are offered a job at Baltimore’s WJZ-TV, but you're still in college, with only one credit left to graduate at Tennessee State University. You:
In the late 1970s, while still in Baltimore, you realize that your male co-host on the television show “People Are Talking” is making more money than you for doing the same job. How do you respond to this news?
After moving to Chicago and landing your own self-titled talk show in the late 1980s, you realize that your television show is competing with other shows that include confrontational television. Because of this, your competitors' ratings are soaring. Do you:
The confrontational content your show airs is in line with the daytime talk trend, but it makes you uncomfortable. What do you do?
In 2005 you select James Frey’s memoir of drug abuse, “A Million Little Pieces,” for your book club. Later it becomes clear he lied and the book is not a memoir but fiction. You feel duped and angry. You respond by:
Years after your harsh interview with James Frey, you still think occasionally about the way in which you attacked him on your show. The best way to move past it is to:
Oprah has publicly spoken two times about major setbacks: when her TV network was dubbed a flop, and when there were allegations of sexual abuse at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, a school she founded. Which of these is a time frame that Oprah deems acceptable for wallowing?
What has Oprah said is the greatest joy she has ever known?