Great World Leaders Melissa Edwards MGT 380 Leadership for Organizations January 6‚ 2012 Great World Leaders When I think of great world leaders‚ certain characteristics and traits come to mind. For someone to be considered a great world leader‚ they need to have done something special‚ something that changed society in a major way. Great leaders are not afraid of change or being shunned by society. When I think of great world leaders‚ I think of Steve Jobs‚ Apple‚ CEO because he was passionate
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Aeneas as A Leader Aeneas‚ the destined founder of Rome‚ is portrayed as a heroic character in Virgil’s Aeneid. Being born as a half-god‚ Aeneas enjoys a special protection by the Gods and possesses numerous good qualities. He is fated to escape from the downfall of Troy and set foot in Italy to build the foundation for the later development of Rome in becoming an empire. It is not easy for a person to witness the destruction of his homeland and run away from it in search of a new establishment
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hero can be a leader or a follower‚ a commoner or royalty‚ mentally or physically strong‚ as long as her or she performs acts of fearlessness that the general public can benefit from. The constantly changing depiction of the characteristics that define a hero can be explained by the evolvement of societal norms and times that date back to the sovereignties of ancient heroes. All the way from 2‚500 BC with Sumerian hero Gilgamesh‚ and over to the 5h century BC Greek heroes‚ Odysseus and Oedipus‚ audiences
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Odysseus can be portrayed as an antihero in The Odyssey. A hero is clever‚ respectful‚ brave‚ and shows mercy. Odysseus is the complete opposite of a hero. He is immature‚ barbaric‚ unfaithful‚ and a coward. Being faithful‚ or loyal‚ is one of the main aspects of being a hero. Book V shows us that Odysseus might not have been so faithful to Penelope: “Now as he spoke the sun set‚ dusk drew on/ and they retired‚ this pair‚ to the inner cave/ to revel and rest softly‚ side by side” (5. 234-236)
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Odysseus is a hero. Despite him sleeping with other women‚ Calypso and Circe‚ he was very protective of his wife‚ son‚ and his men. He gets most of his men home safe to their families and he gets himself home to his own son and wife. In The Odyssey Odysseus blinds Polyphemus‚ angering Poseidon‚ Polyphemus’s father. Poseidon in return gives him and his men a harder time getting the rest of the way home. In the book after visiting the islands of Aeolus it quotes‚ “See what fine prizes he
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Odysseus‚ in The Odyssey by Homer‚ and I both demonstrate determination in many different ways. The first example is when they stopped at the land of the Lotus Eaters. The men that ate the lotus wanted to stay on the land because they were addicted to the lotus‚ but Odysseus‚ the great leader‚ would never let that happen. He said‚ “I drove them‚ all three wailing‚ to the ships‚ tied them down under their rowing benches” and told the rest not to eat the Lotus or they would lose their wishes of wanting
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Though Odysseus had many adventures‚ the most important quality is that he was very smart about the strategies that he would use to complete his tasks at hand. This resourcefulness is important because it helped him survive his encounter with the Cyclops and Circe when she tried to keep him for her own. One example of Odysseus’ cleverness is when he encountered the Cyclops. He used his crew to put the Cyclops to sleep after the Cyclops got upset that Odysseus and his crew ate his food. So while the
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the journey of the hero‚ Odysseus. One of the characters who both follows and subverts her archetype is Eurykleia‚ the maid servant of Odysseus in his house and was also a nursing servant who took care of Odysseus and his son Telemachus‚ who has waited for Odysseus to come home for 20 years after taking care of his son Telemachus and being loyal in his service. Though she is associated with The Loyal Companion archetype due to staying loyal all from the beginning of Odysseus and his son’s life‚ Eurykleia
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As a reflection upon the story itself the main character say this “Those adventures made a long evening‚ and I do not hold with tiresome repetition of a story.” (Homer 956-957) You would that after all Odysseus has been through he would have just given up. Gone and lived on one of the abandoned islands or maybe even an inhabited one. But he doesn’t. He doesn’t give up and he keeps moving forward even though it hurts. This whole way he has been losing friends
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The great leaders are essential for any organisations or societies. Northouse (2007) defines “leadership as being a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”. Nelson Mandela is one of the greatest leaders in the world and the sets a good example of leadership. The purpose of this essay is to discuss leadership styles and what makes Nelson Mandela such a great leader according to the describing framework leadership style by Darling and Leffel (2010)
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