Conventional Leadership of Jesus and Aeneas

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The Conventional Leadership of Jesus and Aeneas Historically, and almost without fail, if a populace is deprived a leader it will not be able to survive well, if at all. If history is looked back upon, societies revolve around their leader and his or her ability to conventionally lead. A conventional leader is one who actively leads, has mental clarity, focuses on making goal-oriented decisions, and puts the decisions into action in order to achieve the desired result. Aeneas of Virgil’s Aeneid does not lead in the sense of a conventional leader, while Jesus in The Gospel According to Mark does lead like a conventional leader. They both are able to lead others through a fact of their existence. Mark shows that Jesus is able to be a leader because of his godly abilities given by God, while Virgil shows that Aeneas is able to lead because of the guidance of the gods and because his fate is to found the successful Roman Empire. There are three parts to the conventional definition of leadership which have to be addressed. Jesus is a conventional leader by actively leading, possessing intellectual acuity, and concentrating on making goal-oriented decisions, while Aeneas does not fully fulfill what it is to be a conventional leader. Jesus leads his followers in an active way; however there is passivity in the way in which Aeneas leads the people who follow him. Leading in an active way is simply when a leader actively thinks about what should be his or her next action and tries to act towards figuring out how to accomplish it. On the contrary, a passive style of leadership is one in which the leader waits for the answer to the decisions which he or she must face instead of trying to come to a conclusion on them actively. Jesus exemplifies his ability to lead actively when he feeds the five thousand people on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus is teaching the
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