Leadership

When choosing a leader, you should look for certain qualities, but what are the qualities a leader should have?. A leader should be honest, reliable, and loyal. Sometimes leaders have bad qualities as well. Being a leader means that you have a lot of responsibility. Leaders have to stand strong on their good and bad days. Furthermore, leaders should not be full of themselves. If they only care about themselves, how can they be a leader to others. A bad quality can be pride. A leader with good qualities can have pride as their downfall.

The novel Lord of the flies is written by William Golding. This novel is about boys on a stranded island. The main characters that I will focus on are Ralph, piggy, and Jack. They meet other boys along the way. All of the boys stick together to survive. There are moments when They see bad things. While on the island they have hope someone will come rescue them. There are no adults so the boys do not have any supervision. Without order the boys go crazy. The boys have their own freedom to do whatever they please.

In chapter one of the novel Ralph and Piggy find a conch. When the two boys return to the crowd Ralph says “ Shut up, Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things” (30). Ralph was the first person to get everyone together. The boys always listened to the boy in charge. Since Ralph had the conch it was easy to get everyone to give him respect. Since they were 12 year olds they obeyed ralph because he was leader. The person with the conch is who everyone respects.

As a new leader, leaders realize that it will be a challenge to lead people. Ralph was struggling at earning respect from the boys.  He kept repeating “I’m chief” over and over. Meanwhile nobody was paying him attention. Ralph did not want to share his power with anyone. In fact he had a competitor try and take his spot.  Jack also wanted to be leader of the tribe. Jack wanted to be leader because he thought was smarter than everyone else. Unfortunately, Ralph got the most votes for chief. Jack only received votes from the choir boys. The choir boys felt their loyalty was for jack. In addition to this they felt obligated to vote for him and not Ralph.  

President Trump is a prime example of a leader. He makes decisions that people disagree with. After reading an article  about him I saw that he has a lot of pride. In the article he states “ he sees himself as a winner “. In other words he is always right and everyone else is wrong. Some people describe Trump as sensitive to others. However there were times when decisions he made, citizens were not thought of. Sometimes trump let his pride cloud the judgement of others. Due to this citizens of the united states are struggling more and more.

Sometimes leaders can have too much pride. They will believe they are better than others. Pride can get in the way of how you treat others. Certain leaders think too much of themselves. They put people under their leadership down. While reading a leadership article, I saw that pride can be a reason leaders fail.  For example, leaders can think they are above everyone else. There can be many types of leaders big or small. For instance there can be a team leaders who does not support their team. Instead of encouraging them to say they are strong, they bring them down.A team leader can have a main focus of winning.

 Later in Lord of the Flies, Ralph enhances in leadership skills. He starts learning how to share power. Jack and Ralph divide up the rest of the boys into 2 groups.

However, there is a time when Ralph talks about Simon who is under his leadership. On the island the boys meet another few boys.  He calls him “ delightfully gay, and wicked.” As a leader there shouldn’t be any negative about others. Others saw Simon as a helpful boy.  Ralph was talking down about his teammate instead of bringing him up. Towards the end of lord of the flies piggy questions ralph's leadership.  He says “i voted you for chief now do something”.

Ralph and Jack are completely different leaders. Jack only wants to be leader because he can a c- sharp and has a good voice. He brags about singing so good. That is an example of pride as well. Jack thinks He’s better than everyone else. Readers could view this as him being prideful about himself. Furthermore, the author refers to Jack as arrogant.  Jack uses his special hunting skills to fetch food on the island. Ralph has his own set of skills to guide the boys.

In the real word Directors are another type of leaders. They boss people around all day. A director’s purpose is create their own vision of someone else. Directors will shout and scream, if something is not right. They do not care if they hurt someone’s feelings or etc. Directors can be good and honest, but still be unsuccessful. People who work for directors get bossed around a lot. People do not normally hear directors say hey your doing a great job or a pat on the back. Instead they deal with being yelled at 24/7 and getting told mean things.

Leaders can have good qualities and be a big success. They can lead people towards greatness with the right qualities. Anyone is eligible to be a leader, as long as they are honest, reliable, and good. Someone who doesn't like responsibility should not be a leader. If you are a prideful person, be careful how you treat others. Being prideful can be good or bad and it shapes your successfulness. Let's say that you are always about you then nobody else will want to help you. Furthermore, be careful when choosing a leader for anything. Remember a leader with good qualities, can still have pride as their downfall.