Leadership

1. Leadership is essential and necessary to everyone. Leadership is part of our lives and we experience it every day, whether it is in school or at work. Humans need a leader, its part of who we are. Depending on the person and their personality, we need to either tell people what to do or be told what to do. Usually we need someone to fallow, someone who knows what to do, someone to guide us the right direction. We need to feel secure and know that all the weight is not on our shoulders, but on someones else's.

2. From a followers perspective the ideal leader is someone who knows everything, who knows what to do even in the worse circumstances. A leader should be strong, powerful, take initiative and confident. Also leaders should be trustworthy, good listeners, and kind to others. They should respect the followers and let them participate.

3. It is very hard for a leader to have all the qualities that the ideal leader should have. All the traits are truly impossible for one person to embody. Its hard for a person to be powerful and strong as well as kind. Its also difficult being confident and take initiative as well as being a good listener and involving others. The qualities are complete opposites, making it extremely difficult for anyone to be a perfect leader.

4. There are many leaders in my life. In my family my mother is the leader. She tells my brother and I what yo do and helps us out in many situations. She is a good listener and knows a lot about many of of the things we go through. In my group of friends there is also a leader. That person is someone who in hard situations always steps up and tries to find a solution to the problem. In my job, my boss is the leader. She is in control of the whole store and makes important decisions. At school, each class, I have a different leader. The teachers teaches whatever way he/she wants and assigns work and projects according to what he/she believes is appropriate.

5. A particular leader I admire is Martin Luther King Junior. He was a good man who fought for what he believed in. Martin worked for racial equality and civil rights. He was liked and respected by his followers. Martin did not believe in violence and had the ability to move a crowd with only his words.

6. A good follower has a few responsibilities. They have to trust the leader and need to be able to take orders and ideas without always knowing the end outcome of things. This is important because it's hard for the leader to always make sure everyone understands everything perfectly. Followers also need to speak up and tell the leader if they don't like what was decided and together they have to make some type of compromise or agreement. This is difficult to do, because these responsibilities conflict with a leaders responsibilities. Leaders have to be strong and sometimes aren't able to please everyone when making a decision. The followers can't always do and agree with everything the leader says or thinks, because no one is perfect and leaders need help.

7/8. Where the Wild Things Are is a great movie that has the theme leadership in it. This movie tells the story of Max, a rambunctious and sensitive boy who feels misunderstood at home and escapes to his own imaginary world. Max lands on an island where he meets mysterious and strange creatures whose emotions are wild and unpredictable. Max tells the creatures that he was the king from where he came from, and he has "special powers". Since The Wild Things desperately want a leader to guide them, they crown Max king, and he promises to create a place where everyone will be happy. Max soon finds out, that ruling his kingdom is not so easy and exciting and scary things happen. The main leader of this movie is obviously Max. His style of leadership could be described as going with the flow. Max never really had leadership experience before he became king, so he simply ruled liked he wanted to. When the creatures where in the process of building a home, Max was a good leader. He let everyone participate and share ideas. He established some ground rules and put one of the creatures, Carol in charge as well as himself. In conclusion Max was both a good and bad leader. At the beginning of the movie he lied to the creatures and promised them something he couldn't guarantee. This was bad because he lost their trust for not being honest. Max was also a good leader because he always tried his best to make everyone happy and always had a positive approach to things. The followers were all the creatures. They were all unhappy and all they wanted was happiness. They didn't know what to do and Max promised to help, so they fallowed his lead hoping he could do something. As a whole leadership was a very big part of the movie. except for the beginning and the end, Max is in the island acting as a leader. He makes good and bad choices which change the outcome of certain events.