Leadership By Force

This week in class we spent a day around the Harkness Table discussing leadership and exp owed by great leaders. The discussion we very productive and there was great insight from everyone. The leadership qualities that were shared included charisma, good speaker, courage, and leading by example. The night after the discussion I went home and I talked leadership with my parents. I told them that during the discussion two people came to mind with very similar leadership style. These to people are Jack from The Lord of the Flies and the President of the United States Barack Obama. Jack was a very forceful leader who instilled fear in the people that followed him. President Obama during the campaign was a very good speaker, had great charisma, and was a very likable person. To this day, President Obama has led by force. He is not a forceful leader in the sense Jack was but President Obama is a very manipulative leader. The president is a great speaker and this helps him to manipulate people into whatever he wants. People are so in awe of his wonderful charisma and verbiage that they do not think for themselves and they go with whatever he says may it be right or wrong. Jack was also a forceful leader but he led by putting fear in people and then taking violent actions against his rivals. Jack was savage unlike President Obama and Jack had a great following. Jacks' piers always complied with what he said and they never questioned him. Neither of these people has true leadership qualities like leading by example, or being able to listen to someones' ideas. Jack and President Obama always have their way; their way or the highway. By no means am I saying that President Obama is violent or savage, I just think he leads by force and so did Jack. These two men exemplify how to lead by force but they both have completely different ways of going about it.