The greatest leader ever is one who knows when to follow and when to lead
(An opinion of the greatest leader ever using Meditations, Republic, and Prince)
Leaders are an interesting group of individuals, they can get people to follow them and yet have no clue as to what they will have their followers do for them. Some leaders rule nations others rule gangs; either way they are able to do something that most cannot do and that is to turn people’s hopes and dreams into words of lucrative promises. As one of the most infamous leaders in our worlds history said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” In Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf, he tells exactly how many leaders lead. What Hitler forgot, …show more content…
It is easy to say that ‘what is right and just to one person could be wrong and unjust in another’s eyes.’ This statement is a copout, a person doesn’t need to go and kill someone just to realize that it is wrong and unjust; the same is true in the opposite sense. Doing does not qualify an action to be just or unjust, it simply makes an action an action; it is what the motives are for doing that action which qualifies it to be just or unjust. A great leader will recognize this and choose to do what is just. In doing what is just, a leader is avoiding the age old positon of Thrasymachus from Plato’s Republic, “might makes right.” Many people say that it is the leader’s duty to make decisions that will affect their follows in a positive way. One of America’s greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln, said in his Gettysburg Address “Our father brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Lincoln believed that it was his responsibility to know right from wrong and to uphold the belief that it was his duty to take care of his followers and make decisions that would affect the quality of his follower’s …show more content…
With this in mind it is safe to say that the leader must be a mad man, because, as Marcus Aurelius pints out in his Meditations, “It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.” Looking out for the future of a group of people seems near impossible, however, it is not when looking at the grander scale of things. The goal shouldn’t be looked at as something that must be done all at one time but rather as an elephant that must be eaten; the former mayor of Worland once told me, “Don’t try to eat the elephant in one bite.” Problems will come about especially to a leader but no problem is more important than that of the future of the group and of the
(An opinion of the greatest leader ever using Meditations, Republic, and Prince)
Leaders are an interesting group of individuals, they can get people to follow them and yet have no clue as to what they will have their followers do for them. Some leaders rule nations others rule gangs; either way they are able to do something that most cannot do and that is to turn people’s hopes and dreams into words of lucrative promises. As one of the most infamous leaders in our worlds history said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” In Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf, he tells exactly how many leaders lead. What Hitler forgot, …show more content…
It is easy to say that ‘what is right and just to one person could be wrong and unjust in another’s eyes.’ This statement is a copout, a person doesn’t need to go and kill someone just to realize that it is wrong and unjust; the same is true in the opposite sense. Doing does not qualify an action to be just or unjust, it simply makes an action an action; it is what the motives are for doing that action which qualifies it to be just or unjust. A great leader will recognize this and choose to do what is just. In doing what is just, a leader is avoiding the age old positon of Thrasymachus from Plato’s Republic, “might makes right.” Many people say that it is the leader’s duty to make decisions that will affect their follows in a positive way. One of America’s greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln, said in his Gettysburg Address “Our father brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Lincoln believed that it was his responsibility to know right from wrong and to uphold the belief that it was his duty to take care of his followers and make decisions that would affect the quality of his follower’s …show more content…
With this in mind it is safe to say that the leader must be a mad man, because, as Marcus Aurelius pints out in his Meditations, “It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.” Looking out for the future of a group of people seems near impossible, however, it is not when looking at the grander scale of things. The goal shouldn’t be looked at as something that must be done all at one time but rather as an elephant that must be eaten; the former mayor of Worland once told me, “Don’t try to eat the elephant in one bite.” Problems will come about especially to a leader but no problem is more important than that of the future of the group and of the