Do all of you see?’ He spreads his arms wide and turned to the whole triangle, ‘We’ve got to make smoke up there-or die’’’ (Golding86-87). By being the first to tell the boys what to do and by setting goals for the boys to follow, he makes practical plans that will ensure their rescue. Ralph also shows a great amount of initiative when most of the boys try to avoid work and all they want to do is play. Although not much help is being provided, Ralph decides to build huts as a method of survival. Ralph’s idea of building huts expresses how he sticks with plans for the safety of the entire group.
In the first chapter of this book when the boys meet Ralph and the choir there are disagreements about who is leader so Ralph says ‘let’s have a vote’. This shows fairness and agreement. The other boys on the island got to choose who was leader. ‘ill give the conch to the next person to speak’ this shows that Ralph is happy to hear other opinions and uses a good way to listen to people. The conch is used throughout the book to represent order and authority.
Another characteristic of President Lincoln’s leadership style was that he displayed good moral character. He was honest, fair, sincere and trust worthy. Those who worked under him knew that they could trust President Lincoln because he was consistently fair and was fair and decent both when congratulating and disciplining his subordinates. Another leadership quality that Lincoln possessed that leaders should incorporate into their practices is to set goals and be result-oriented. Setting goals give followers a common end to work towards.
Popular sovereignty is the idea that the people govern themselves, meaning that the people choose who they would like to be in charge of the country or state as stated in Madison’s report of the Debates in the Federal Convention speech, the members of the first branch of the National Legislature will be elected by the people and that the second branch will then be elected by the members of the first branch. This shows that the people were part of the whole election process from the start and that those who were chosen in the first branch were trusted enough to be put in charge. It gives the people freedom of choice and to choose the authority whom they can depend on to get the job done. The Constitution begins with “We the people” and it continues with “ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” referring to the people who put it together, but in those times it included only those free, people who owned property and clergymen whereas now it includes all legal residents of the country. Therefore the principle of popular sovereignty is declared.
He talked about being invited as an honorary professor, and kept it all very short – just enough to introduce his audience to him, and move on to the meat of the speech. The President of the humble United States had started out by putting himself in the role of "professor" giving a short lecture to his students. That set the tone for the audience. It told them that he was going to teach them about an important topic. It told them to open their minds and pay attention as it also lent to his credibility as a speaker.
We will mainly discuss the leaders’ influence in building an effective team. How can leaders affect others to get the best of teams? An effective team is a kind of team with high performances. We can also say that this kind of teams can achieve everything in its main path. They share the similar elements: they all have a clear and effective structure; they all have an extremely good leader; they all embrace the accountability to have things done and mutual respect; they all have an efficient communication system and they all have learned from the past and enjoy the new things.
He says “put their hands on the arc of history and bend it” in reference to his audience. The “arc of history” is an abstract noun, But Obama describes it in context with a proper noun, developing the technique further, allowing his thoughts to synchronise with those of the audience. The fact that they can bend “The arc of history” to shape a better future is a conclusion to his argument on the power of democracy, the power that America holds dear. At this point, Obama is starting to gain the support of his worldwide audience; the
Ben’s leadership led to a better work environment with better job satisfaction. Personally, I would choose to work with Phil because I believe that he did what was ideal for the sake of the company. He brought productivity up, kept supervisors engaged and was able to accomplish the
+ The second factor is his refreshing leadership style. With friendly attitude, he has changed the way people work by empowered and energized them. Kapicic gave his employees autonomy to do their work and encouraged people to take charge of their own problems. According to John Quincy Adams, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”. Kapicic always listened to his staffs, created a best environment for them to work and provided the necessary motivation at the right time.
Just like Earth we have democratic countries, totalitarian countries and destructive part on the Island. Democratic countries of the world are represented through the lagoon or the platform that the boys always had for their assemblies. According to novel this is the place where first semblance of ‘democracy’ was established. “Let’s have a vote.’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Vote for a chief.’ This lagoon or platform can be easily linked to democratic countries in our world where people vote for the person they want to be their leader as the boys vote for Ralph as their leader on that platform. While on the other hand we have the mountainous area where Jack moved after making a new party introducing the concept of dictatorship thus presenting totalitarian countries of the world.