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    1. The book provided a good lesson regarding management which was to hire great people because if you hire slackers or weak people they will cripple you in the battlefield or will cripple the organization they work for. Sun Tzu also believes that one should care for their team/ army however, being tough is important for them to respect you and listen to you. 2. Sun Tzu emphasizes on the importance of knowing your enemy and knowing them well and exploit their weaknesses and avoid his strengths.

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    society and leaders were greatly mislead in their approach of operating the state. Yet even they had very contrasting beliefs in their view of what was ideal for a society to function properly. Machiavelli judges religious or political leaders is based there’s ability to maintain order and unity, regardless of whether one or not need these leaders put there morality and ethics aside for this greater benefit of one’s state. This differs greatly from Dante because his evaluation of the leaders of his time

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    Have you ever met a leader or been one yourself? Harriet Tubman is a former slave that escaped slavery to help others do the same. Harriet Tubman was committed to helping others escape from 1849 when she escaped till 1913 when she felt her work was done. Both "Seven Qualities of a Good Leader" by Barbara White and the short passage "The Railroad Runs to Canada" by Ann Petry. In this essay I will be explaining how Harriet Tubman has one of the seven qualities of commitment, she also has a way of

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    Julius Caesar was not a powerful leader. Julius Caesar was always wanting help from other people. Caesar thought he was a good leader but nobody liked him. He was always using other people to do his jobs, and he needed others to pick him up because he was not strong enough to do the job by himself. Caesar was only liked by very few people because of the stuff he did. One reason Caesar was not powerful is he did not listen to anyone and just did his own thing. But then when he did something wrong

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    Is Ralph a Good Leader? For a 12 year boy, who knew a person at such a young age is able to stay civilized, focus on the main objective, and control a group of boarding school boys without the help of an adult! Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is about a plane full of boarding school boys gets shot down by an aircraft during WWII and clash onto a deserted island leaving the boys unattend without an adult. The boys realizes this and choose Ralph, one of the abandon boarding students to

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    In Henry V, Shakespeare exemplifies the qualities of a good leader. Throughout the play, Henry has several moments of leading his people and making not-so-simple decisions. However, at times, Henry makes decisions that can only result in questions of his morality. It is through these moments, that Shakespeare illuminates the idea that being a good king does not inherently mean being a good person, that sometimes, a king must sacrifice parts of himself to adequately lead his people. Throughout the

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    If you have ever been in a room with a person that is supposed to be a leader, but doesn’t even know what that is, then you will relate to this. The pigs are like this because they don’t know what it means to be a good leader, and mess everything up. Unlike the pigs in Animal Farm, George Washington embodies the characteristics of a strong leader because he shows the traits of being honest, being passionate, and not being power hungry. George Washington was a man that was not power hungry unlike

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    I recently experienced a transition in my department during which my operational expectations included working with my colleagues in a more team oriented approach. Prior to the transition each individual in the department had an assigned business unit and provided human resource guidance to their assigned areas. Although we all have the knowledge and skills to accomplish that task, we were often completing it in different ways, which resulted in varied responses and outcomes. We did have scheduled

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    few hundred strong, all with personalities and circumstances in life equally complex as the leader himself. Despite the odds against them, stories of excellent leaders are ubiquitous and consist of many different types of people doing the leading in many walks of life. In addition to the anecdotal evidence supporting the role of desirable personality traits being involved in the formation of a good leader it can be seen through experience and history that certain traits are more beneficial than

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    Research on ritual with respect to consumption and holidays has been a growing topic with the support of numerous studies in recent years. However, a clear definition of what ritual entail is of debate between scholars of the social sciences, particularly anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Creating a clear set of criteria to describe what behavior is considered to be of an aspect of ritual or not has been an impossible feat for researchers, instead many definitions have risen from disagreement

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