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Overcoming Adversities and Leadership: Profile of US Senator Daniel Inouye

This groundbreaking leadership research He requested information from the draft
by has received extensive endorsements board concerning his rejection. The
and enthusiastic reviews from well-known clerk found that Daniel was "working 72
prominent business, political, and hours a week at the aid station" of the
academic leaders who either participated local chapter of the American Red Cross.
in the study or reviewed the research Dan was told, "You're already making an
findings. essential defense contribution, and
You will discover the proven success you're enrolled in a pre-med course at
habits and secrets of people who, in the University, and Lord knows we'll be
spite of difficult or life threatening needing doctors." So he dropped out of
challenges shaped their own destiny to the University of Hawaii and quit his job
become successful, effective leaders. with the Red Cross.
The full results of this research will be Then he re-applied. This time his
presented in the upcoming book by Dr. application was accepted. Inouye was
Howard Edward Haller titled "Leadership: bright and eager to serve. "In the
View from the Shoulders of Giants." military, there was another challenge, or
The nine initial prominent successful obstacle." Dan said, "I was the
leaders who overcame adversity that were assistant squad leader. Then, the
interviewed included: Dr. Tony Bonanzino, youngest person was about two years my
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, Monzer Hourani, senior, and the oldest was about 15 years
U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, Dr. John my senior." Because these were
Malone, Larry Pino, U.S. Army Major Japanese-American soldiers who all came
General Sid Shachnow, Dr. Blenda Wilson, from "a society where age makes a
and Zig Ziglar. difference . . . where elders are looked
The data from the above nine research upon with a bit more respect than the
participants was materially augmented by younger ones, it was a challenge. So, I
seven other successful leaders who had to work overtime at that, to justify
overcame adversity including: Jack that position."
Canfield, William Draper III, Mark Victor He was promoted rapidly, first to
Hansen, J. Terrence Lanni, Angelo Mozilo, corporal and then to sergeant. Daniel
Dr. Nido Qubein, and Dr. John Sperling. and his unit were sent to Italy to fight.
Additionally, five internationally known He earned a battlefield commission to
and respected leadership scholars offered second lieutenant while fighting in
their reviews of the leadership research Europe.
findings including: Dr. Ken Blanchard, In one battle in Italy, near the end of
Jim Kouzes, Dr. John Kotter, Dr. Paul World War II in Europe, young Lieutenant
Stoltz, and Dr. Meg Wheatley. Inouye had his right arm essentially shot
This is a short biography of one of the off. In spite of the intense pain, he
principal participants who generously insisted on remaining at the battle
contributed their time and insight for scene, directing and protecting his
this important research into the troops, though he had tourniquets on his
phenomenon of how prominent successful right shoulder and the stub of that arm.
leaders overcome adversity and obstacles. He was decorated for his heroism,
This is Senator Daniel Inouye's story. receiving a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart,
Daniel Inouye is the eldest son of and the Distinguished Service Cross. He
Japanese immigrants who worked on the was also recommended for, and later
Hawaiian sugar plantations where Daniel received, the Congressional Medal of
was born and raised. He lived in what he Honor. Lieutenant Inouye was transferred
described as a "Japanese-American back to the United States to receive
ghetto." He went to the local Hawaiian treatment and rehabilitation for his
school, at which "the student body was wounds.
90% ethnic Japanese." Senator Inouye told me, "I specifically
As a young boy, Daniel accidentally fell chose to do my rehabilitation as far away
and broke his left arm in a terrible from Hawaii as possible," because he had
compound fracture. The local doctor, an always been sheltered. He explained, "I
Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, set the had experienced only limited contact with
arm. It mended, but not well. In his anything outside my Japanese-American
autobiography, Inouye wrote, "My arm hung neighborhood."
limp and crooked and I could barely move He wanted to see how other people lived,
it" (1968, p. 49). and became cultured in the ways of the
After two years of searching his parents, "hoale" [white] world in the process. "I
"contacted the best orthopedic surgeon in underwent a 'Pygmalion transformation,'
Hawaii," who reconstructed Dan's "left learning how to formally dine with silver
arm and made it good as new." That and china, attending cultural events and
incident formed the basis of Daniel's meetings with as many different types of
career goal: to become an orthopedic people as I possibly could."
surgeon. He told the orthopedic surgeon Inouye shared that his generation, "in
who repaired his arm and restored it to Hawaii, [came] from [Japanese-American]
full use, "I'm going to be a doctor, like ethnic enclaves [who] spoke a strange
you." brand of pidgin-English. So I felt that
He faced racial discrimination when he if I lived in a community where you were
was nominated to the local honor society literally forced to change your way of
in high school and was made to feel most communicating, it would help. And it
unwelcome there. did."
While still in high school, Dan became a Daniel specifically noted, "In fact, the
volunteer with the local chapter of the highest compliment paid was when I
American Red Cross. Then the "entire returned home to Hawaii, and I opened my
world turned upside down" on December 7, mouth to see how [my mother] was, she
1942. After the bombing, the secretary said, 'You speak like a 'hoale'!" During
of the local American Red Cross chapter his lengthy rehabilitation, Daniel
called young Daniel into action decided to finish college, get a law
immediately, having him "help with degree, and then enter into public
injured people who had been rescued from service.
fallen debris, as well as the other He left the U.S. Army as a captain,
wounded that needed treatment." returned to the University of Hawaii, and
Daniel shared that his life had been married a Japanese-American girl,
changed by the bombing of Pearl Harbor: Margaret Awamura. He completed "law
"The war came along, and the challenge school with a Juris Doctorate at George
was immense, not just physical, but Washington University in Washington, D.C.
emotional. My loyalty, together with in just two years," and then returned to
those of my generation, was questioned. Hawaii, where he "took and passed the
We were looked upon as enemy agents, and Territorial Bar exam."
our friends of Japanese ancestry were In 1959 he was elected to the U.S. House
placed in camps, without any trial. And of Representatives for the new State of
that was something that, though I was Hawaii, becoming the first
fairly young, I felt had to be overcome." Japanese-American ever to be elected to
Though Daniel was of Japanese descent, he the U.S. Congress. Inouye was elected to
was "100% American." The following year, the U.S. Senate in 1962, and has been
when President Franklin Roosevelt finally re-elected every six years since then.
allowed the Nisei (second-generation Senator Inouye is the third
Japanese-Americans) to join the United highest-ranking member of the United
States military, Daniel attempted to States Senate.
enlist, but he was turned down. Copyright 2006 © Howard Edward
Unwilling to accept "no" as an answer. Haller, Ph.D.




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