Odyssey Homer’s Odysseus is a complicated character faced with mythic challenges as he leads his men on their journey home to Ithaca. As their leader‚ Odysseus makes the decisions that ultimately determine their fates. By the time he reaches the shores of Greece‚ Odysseus is the only one of his men to make it home. This fact alone points to flaws in his abilities to lead his men. Odysseus fails as a good leader because of three character flaws: opportunism‚ arrogance‚ and egoism. Odysseus is a cunning
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Is flexibility a sign of a strong leader? ->Yes -reasons 1-> it takes a strong leader to be able to make a quick decision depending on any changes in what is going on. ܓ Details A-> plans don’t always go as planned B-> but what happens when a plan backfires? C-> a strong leader must adjust to any problems with people 2->what happens when a leader’s plans don’t go as planned? ܓ Details A->sometimes in life our plans have to change. B-> Most of the time they are just small
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What is being a good leader? A good leader involves a lot of hard work and lots of leadership skills. It is very good to be a leader‚ because that means that you have followers that look up to you and think of maybe becoming a leader when they are older. My first reason for why I think it is necessary to be a good leader is‚ stay a leader. If you are a leader you need to stay one because if your only one for a certain amount of time then people won’t think of you as a true leader and some people
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Makes a Leader In the three surveys that I took about what makes a good leader‚ all three of the individuals agreed on relatively the same thing. Not one of the survey takers chose the answer neither agree nor disagree or worse. Each answer was agree or strongly agree to the fourteen questions. A leader has great characteristics and the ability to motivate others. In this paper‚ I will go over their results and talk about what makes a good leader. There are three main things that make a good leader
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Someone that I to work under that I consider a bad leader would have to be a history teacher that I had in the eighth grade. I consider him a bad leader because he treated my classmates and me terribly. He would yell at us a lot‚ sometimes act like a teenager instead of an adult and be a little rude to us sometimes. However‚ the worst thing that he ever did to me made me feel bad about myself and lower my self-confidence. He always told me numerous times that my younger sister “was one of his favorite
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According to Machiavelli‚ a successful leader consists of five crucial characteristics. First of all‚ in order to be a great leader you should be loved and feared at the same time. However‚ being feared could be better because that way people would less likely revolt against the leader‚ but not to the point to be hated. On the other hand‚ a great leader should be supported by its people. Most importantly‚ a powerful leader should pretend to be virtuous and kind. By saying that‚ we can compare that
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“Odysseus is too thoughtless‚ selfish and deceitful to be a real hero.” How far do you agree with this view? Yes‚ I do agree that Odysseus was thoughtless‚ selfish and deceitful but these qualities were necessary for him to complete his journey and be seen as a hero on his return to Ithaca. Greek heroes like Odysseus were greater than the average man and achieved much notoriety and fame by being thoughtless‚ selfish and deceitful. Inevitability Odysseus‚ curiosity led him to make bad decisions after
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“It is essential‚ therefore‚ for a Prince who desires to maintain his position‚ to have learned how to be other than good and to use or not use his goodness as necessity requires” (40 Prince). There are many views on what a good leader may be. In Hamlet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ there is a loss of a great leader who is replaced by a not so great leader. Niccolo Machiavelli’s text‚ The Prince‚ includes a list of traits that he thought a Prince should possess. An argument
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Good Boss Bad Boss Valerie Hutchins University Of Phoenix Com/155 Annette Gross November 24‚ 2013 Good Boss Bad Boss “Servants don’t know a good master until they have served a worse‚” (Aesop). By the tender age of eighteen‚ most people have had a job. Whatever that job was‚ the kind of master –boss encountered most likely made a big difference in how work performance is perceived and what constitutes a good or a bad boss. The collaborative relationship or lack there of‚ between an employee
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three words that describe Odysseus. The readers of his adventure learn that he is intelligent and always has a plan. In “The Odyssey”‚ Odysseus is seen preparing‚ Leading the win at Troy‚ and fearing nothing. His amazing skills show his heroism in the poem. Odysseus is a hero because of his leadership‚ bravery‚ and his planning. Odysseus is a hero because of his leadership. Odysseus led his men out of the Cyclopes cave and chose to go home instead of being immortal. Odysseus and his men were stuck
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