Ender's Game Leadership Analysis

Decent Essays
Clay Castleman
Lane
World lit
2 December 2015

Personal Leadership essay

Principles of leadership. In the book Ender’s Game, By Orson Scott Card, many different forms and ways of leadership are present. Ender actually uses many of the different leadership qualities in his journey through battle school and command school. He takes the skills form the leaders that he meets and uses them to his own. he eventually uses those leadership elements and defeats every challenge put in front of him. The main lessons of leadership Ender finds are: leadership can be lonely, to expect challenge, and good leaders care about their companions. The first lesson is leadership can be very lonely. Ender realizes that he gets really lonely during his
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It means being a strong outspoken person who doesn't give up and is always ready for a challenge. To Ronald Reagan, leadership means “to grasp and hold a vision”. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” (Ronald Reagan). Reagan is the most influential leader in my life. He is most like me, also. I am a democratic leader. A democratic leader basically means that the leader allows input from others and doesn't try to take over the whole project. we like to discuss over the decision before it is …show more content…
that code then determines what your personality trait is. My code was ENTP, i found out that i was a visionary type. According to the results, it says: “your primary mode of living is focused externally, where you take things in primarily via your intuition. Your secondary mode is internal, where you deal with things rationally and logically.”(Myers Briggs) I am a logical person, i stay thinking about the realistic side of the problem. I agree with these results.
The last survey i took was the leadership orientation survey. It determines if you are a task or people oriented leader. I found that i was more of a task oriented leader. being a task oriented leader means you stay focused on getting the job done. You want to finish it and do it right. this result has relation to the results from Myers briggs, where it said i was logistic. being logistic is a huge part of being a task oriented leader. you have to think realistically when completing tasks to the best of your ability. This result best fit

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