SUCCESS VS FAILUREVS.

JUDGEMENT

MARGARET THATCHER

• Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13 October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the daughter of a grocer.

• She went to Oxford University and then became a research chemist, retraining to become a barrister in 1954.

• In 1951, she married Denis Thatcher, a wealthy businessman, with whom she had two children.

Introduction

• Thatcher became a Conservative member of parliament for Finchley in North London in 1959, serving as its MP until 1992.

• Her first parliamentary post was junior minister

for pensions in Harold Macmillan's government.

• In 1970 Thatcher was appointed as Secretary for Education.

Early Political Career

• After the Conservatives were defeated in 1974, Thatcher challenged Heath for the leadership of the party, which she won.

• In 1979 the Conservative party won the general election and Thatcher became Prime Minister.

• She was an advocate of privatising state-owned industries and utilities, reforming trade unions, lowering taxes and reducing social expenditure.

• She succeeded in reducing inflation, but unemployment dramatically increased during her years in power.

Leadership

• In the 1987 general election, Thatcher won an unprecedented third term in office.

• Controversial policies, including the poll tax and her opposition to any closer integration with Europe, led to division within the Conservative Party effecting quite a leadership challenge!

• In November 1990, she agreed to resign and was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by John Major.

Leadership

• In 1992, Thatcher left the House of Commons.

• She was acclaimed the title of Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven and continued giving speeches and lectures across the world.

• She founded the Thatcher Foundation, which aimed to advance the cause of political and economic freedom, particularly in the newly liberated countries of central and eastern Europe.

The end of an Era

• In 1995 she became a member of the Order of the Garter, the highest order of knighthood in England.

• In 2002, after a series of minor strokes, Baroness Thatcher retired from public speaking.

• She died of a stroke on April 8, 2013, at the age of 87.

The end of an Era

“NOT SPLENDIDLY ENOUGH”

#1

“SAY YOU UNDERSTAND”

#2

“JUST GET UP AND DO”

#3

“INTEGRITY”

#4

“YOU CAN REWIND IT, YOU CAN’T CHANGE IT”

#5

“ONE’S LIFE MUST MATTER”

#6

“GIVING?”

#7

“PATH OF ROSES”

#8

Ambition and Dreams takes believing – believing that you can.

Believing that you can DO everything in your power to get there – stop whining and do.

And if you don’t know how – just get up and ask.

If Margaret Thatcher can stand tall, in parliament and say: I am a grocer’s daughter with an Oxford – then we can believe we can achieve, no matter what.

So…….

Yes, we don’t always know HOW – that is because we want the whole picture, complete instantly but if we take one powerful step at a time – the picture completes itself – it’s about tenacity, strength, being clear and integrity.

Allow yourself the honour of demanding understanding from others about your path and what you stand for.

So…….