A leader is not a title earned for the sole purpose of bettering one’s position in society. After all, one cannot ordain themselves a leader, they must demonstrate themselves to be one to their peers and to themselves. Being a leader involves…
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek” - President Barack Obama (Brain Quotes 1). President Barack Obama, a national leader uttered this quote in his 2008 election campaign. Though not a new concept, the truth of the matter has been explained many different ways throughout decades. For example, the author of a 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding explores this controversial topic of the “perfect leader”. The author sets the scene on a far-out island holding a population of wild boar amongst a plane crashed filled with English school boys. Out of the group, the author leads the reader to come…
The study of leadership has been a debated topic for centuries. The leader influences others, has followers, and leaders will come to the forefront during a crisis. “Leaders are people with a clear idea of what they want, why they want it and are able to think and act creatively in non-routine situations” (infed.org, 2012).…
While in a survival situation people will resort to basic survival instincts in order to prosper, some need a strong leader to tell them what to do to survive. Yet some are the leaders, and feel responsible to take action and lives into their hands. The movie “Alive” and the novel “The Lord of the Flies” depicted this theme very well, in “The Lord of the Flies” a natural leader by the name of Ralph volunteers to be chief of a group of stranded boys. This is quite similar to the film “Alive” where survivors of a plane crash elect a leader, Antonio, to get them out alive. Not always are the leaders supreme, sometimes the leaders have competition.…
National leaders have numerous tactics on how they think their country will thrive, however only a few methods succeed. In William Golding’s classic novel, Lord of The Flies, Golding compares Ralph’s egalitarian approach to Jack’s prejudiced approach showing that leadership determines whether a society fails or prospers.…
Jacqueline Novogratz is the definition of a leader. The book starts off with Jacqueline as a young girl realizing that without knowing, people indirectly affect you with the actions they make in life. She wanted to make her affect on someone positive. With that said Jacqueline was determined to use her new skills to help the poor and do whatever she can to make their lives better. she accepts a position to serve as an ambassador to African women in an office of the African Development Bank. During her first week she encounters many challenges with her co-workers. But as a true leader she decides to stay and work through it.…
When chaos strikes a group of people they look for a person. Not just a person, they look for a leader. They look for someone who can inspire the masses. The definition of a leader is the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country. There are many great leaders in the country’s history that took charger during the challenging times. Leader like Abraham Lincoln during the civil war or Ronald Regan during the Cold War. The same sense of a need of a leader in our history is the same feeling in the book the Lord of the Flies. A group of boys are stranded on an island and no one knows where they are. This challenge causes a need for a leader. The group decided on one leader but there are three different people who display different types of successful leadership.…
From the dawn of time to the end of the world as humanity knows it, where there is sentience, there will always be leaders. In Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, leadership is displayed by numerous characters, children, and adults, almost all of which displayed some forms of eloquence, empathy, and organization. Eloquence is needed for a leader to secure the trust and loyalty of their followers, after all, would one follow a leader they could not trust? In order to be on the cutting edge of strategy and innovation, one must be empathetic and able to understand the desires of both their peers and their enemies. To maintain leadership, a leader has to be organized, each of their decisions must be calculated, their resources should be set out in front of them for them to know all of their options at any time.…
Leaders can be described as kind, caring, intelligent, strong, responsible, and intrepid. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a leader who possess these qualities is needed. The novel is about a group of young boys who crash on an island with no adults, and Ralph is voted as leader. His rival, Jack, later tries to take a position as leader and a battle of savagery vs. civilization begins. Ralph is an honorable leader, because he is responsible and intrepid, even though he can be indecisive at times.…
The ideas of Leadership and human nature can best be related to an up and coming Hollywood star. They start out all innocent but the fame, fortune, and power catch up with them. It changes them, having people look up to you and knowing that they will follow everything they do allows you to understand the power that you have. They can end up going out of control and it will change them for the worst. The ability to have this kind of power, for Jack, turns him into being obsessive with being the leader of the tribe. When he does not win it makes him really jealous of Ralph. He makes everyone turn on Ralph to become the unofficial leader. The power drives him crazy and starts to beat on kids on the island for no apparent reason, it even escalades to killing them. It is human nature to have the desire for power, to lead other people, and control them, even though we don’t try to the greed can overpower us to do the wrong choices. The human nature of wanting power can come for several different reasons such as competition to be the leader of the tribe, having too much desire to be a leader, and when you are neglected by the others.…
There is a necessity of the world to have leaders and to bring people to peace in life. When there is a catastrophe somewhere, there has to be someone to step up and relieve the problem for the people to go back to their daily lives. A human worries and panics when one does not know what to do: fear is a sign for needing help. Like a superhero, there needs someone to save anyone that is in distress. Panics can be as small as not being able to get a computer working; but that is why there is an actual job for people to assuage the problem. Businesses pay for people who have virtues that can help, lead, and teach a company that can go toward success. When people become…
makes the individual, whom has created the group, the leader. Being a leader in this…
Leaders today are those who take action when no one else does. They are the ones who run to someone’s aid, while everyone else is frozen in fear or shock. Leaders are those who are willing to take responsibility, something many will not do. Leaders do not complain about their…
Leadership, in this writer’s point of view, is the ability to guide organization in times of…
Society is made up of leaders and followers. While many wants to, not all can be leaders. A leader is somebody who guides or directs others by showing them the way. A leader is someone that can influence people. He is someone that people want to follow and respect, makes good decisions, can think quickly. He is self-confident, and knows what to do next. A leader is someone who can guide others to their own empowerment.…