Essay On Odysseus Leadership

Odyssey, the book which people have been reading and learning from it generation after generation, its main character, Odysseus has been portrayed to be a great leader and be worshiped by a large amount of people. However, while reading it in advanced deeply, in details and sentence by sentence, seeing the evidence, the mirror of Odysseus occurred. The way that he treated his men, the way he led his men to, the way he talked to his men, arrogance, self-centered, unmotived, selfish all showed his unbelievably terrible disposition and didn’t even qualified of being a leader. In US academic environments leadership is defined as "a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task" when applying this definition to Odysseus, it obviously doesn’t work. Leaders create an inspiring vision of the future. While coaching and building the team, they need to motivate and inspire their people in order to achieve the vision more effectively. Unfortunately, Odysseus didn’t follow these.80% percent of the book is talking about Odysseus and his crew way back home, which took them more than 20 years, more specifically, 24 years. As far as we know that obviously that is definitely very inefficient. By searching the distance from Troy back to an island on
Arrogance is one of seven basic character flaws or “dark” personality traits. Mortals have the potential for arrogant tendencies but in people, such as Odysseus, with a strong fear of showing ordinary vulnerability, arrogance can become a dominant pattern, , which is a crucial point during his leading a group. Instead of supporting, inspiring and motivating his men, Odysseus did the exactly opposite thing, he showed his arrogance when he blamed the situation solely on his men, calling them mutinous