Odysseus Leadership Essay

Leadership is the action of leading a group of people or organization. This doesn’t mean you have to work unaccompanied. Being a leader is a big responsibility and from time to time you can’t do it alone. Many leaders have a partner or a crew to help them along their journey. This is another quality called joint effort, which Odysseus and his crew had great familiarity with. Odysseus and I are both leaders because we took control in problematic situations and always got the job done. My 8th grade year, grades 5th through 8th had an igloo building contest. Each class had to bring in as many empty milk jugs as they can and construct an igloo out of them. The difficulty was getting the milk jugs to stand up and stick together. My other classmate …show more content…
Sailing off to Troy to defeat the Trojans, being trapped away from home for 20 years, and the countless obstacles amid he had to face, were way more consequential and mandatory to resolve. He was expected to be a leader to almost 1,000 men, and I was expected to be a leader to at least 20 kids. His journey contained many life or death situations like sailing through Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus shows his role in leadership by this quote: “Now I the strength of Hercules behold, A towering spectre of gigantic mould, A shadowy form! for high in heaven's abodes Himself resides, a god among the gods; There, in the bright assemblies of the skies, He nectar quaffs, and Hebe crowns his joys. Here hovering ghosts, like fowl, his shade surround, And clang their pinions with terrific sound; Gloomy as night he stands, in act to throw The aerial arrow from the twanging bow. Around his breast a wondrous zone is roll'd, Where woodland monsters grin in fretted gold: There sullen lions sternly seem to roar, The bear to growl, to foam the tusky boar; There war and havoc, and destruction stood, And vengeful murder red with human blood. Thus terribly adorn'd the figures shine, inimitably wrought with skill