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The author of the book “Emotional Intelligence” has discussed various topics and subtopics reflecting different elements of competent leadership. Some of the components of quality leadership that appear in the book are integrity, accountability and proper management. The book has clearly shown that a leader should be able to inspire others towards moral lifestyles. Through his or her leadership pattern, a leader should make his or her subjects wish to emulate his/her style. The authors view leaders as people who live above reproach. Any leader found behaving in a contradicting manner nullifies his or her purpose of leadership and, thus, betrays the trust that the community bestows upon him or her. Goleman (2007) in his discussion reveals that leaders should be able to mentor the up-coming generation being conversant with the fact that the future depends on them. It would just be pointless to have a good leadership if indeed the future generation does not undergo adequate training. Any leadership structure is unsustainable regardless of its effectiveness unless it considers the priority of mentorship (Goleman, 2007). Goleman continues to elaborate that leaders are not people who are merely seeking honorable positions for their personal recognition in the society or monetary gains. Leadership, on the contrary, demands that a leader should be able to make positive changes in the society and seek positive solutions to problems in the society. Another element of leadership, which the Goleman reflects is honesty. Leaders are people who set realistic goals and make honest promises (Goleman, 1999). They keep their words instead of making empty promises. The test of honesty is apparently the most difficult for leaders, because they quite easily make unrealistic promises. In the topics, it comes out that certain leaders driven by their selfish motives make exciting declarations, which in reality are not attainable within known standards. Of course, whenever people accuse them in failing to fulfill their promises, they readily use excuses to justify themselves. The topics indicate that leadership and intelligence are directly related because leaders should be able to understand the personality and characters of their subjects. Instead of making hasty judgments on people, leaders should use intelligence to understand the causes of certain actions (Goleman, 1999). Leadership demands understanding and empathy accompanied by the readiness to offer necessary assistance. According to Gardner (1995), leaders do not have to take law in his or her hands or even to handle conflicts at personal levels. It comes out that certain leaders use their positions as opportunities to exploit, intimidate and manipulate their subjects, while some of them are oblivious of their human rights. Leaders must understand that people originate from varying backgrounds and they face different challenging experiences. Without understanding and intelligence, leader may end up victimizing people by making irrational conclusions about them. This portrays a poor leadership quality. L
Service Firm/Organization: Comcast Corporation (Xfinity Internet Service) Date: Thursday, August 2, 2012. Time: 04.00 PM. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Factual Details The absence of the Internet connection. Being the user of Xfinity Internet provided by Comcast Corporation, I experienced some difficulties with trying to get Internet access at 03.15 PM on August 2, 2012. The message on the screen informed me that access to the Internet was blocked. After rebooting the computer, the cable was not recognized by the device. It was necessary to call customer service. The customer service representative informed me that specialists would come to examine the problem the next day. On August 3, specialists did not come to solve the problem. I called customer service again and learned that the problem was solved, and it was possible to try to get Internet access. After trying to get the connection, I observed that the cable was not recognized by the computer as earlier. The customer service representative assured me again that specialists would come in several hours. Specialists came in an hour, but they were unable to solve the issue because it was not connected with a cable or my computer, but the access was blocked by the system of the main office. It was necessary to unblock my access with the help of special ‘keys’ which were not taken by the specialists because they were incorrectly informed about the character of the problem fixed by the customer service representative in the request form. These specialists planned to come with the required ‘keys’ to solve the problem and control the connection the next day. On August 4, the other two specialists came to solve the problem described in the wrong request form. Thus, they were also unable to restore the Internet connection. The problem was solved only the next day, on August 5, when the specialists who had come earlier could unblock the system with the help of the ‘keys’. Comments I was dissatisfied not with the character of specialists’ help provided, but with the factors which caused my inability to get Internet access for several days because of the customer service representative’s faults. The customer service representative’s actions in not organizing the specialists’ coming to my place after the first request and filling in the request form wrongly contributed to developing
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf must have been very shocking to her readers when it first appeared. It discusses both the pain that a mismatch in sexual desire between a husband and a wife can create, and the power of a crush of one woman for another. While it discusses these matters very poetically and with magnificent imagery, the agony of the protagonist is clear. Additionally, the text shows just how constricting and stifling the life that she leads can be. For a modern reader, it is tempting to imagine that in having a crush on Sally, she was just discovering her true proclivities. However, consider the era in which this was written. For the most part, women’s sexual potential was just barely acknowledged or dismissed entirely. It is also possible that she has never experienced a man’s love in a way that would be tolerable. How knowledgeable, how tender, was the way that she was approached as a wife? Was she ever kissed for no reason at all, as her female friend kissed her? It is an interesting issue. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded repeatedly of how limited a woman’s life was. That a woman’s status could be determined by her gloves and her shoes, tells the reader that a woman’s interior life was unimportant to the men around her. In Woolf’s text, a woman seems to have been seen as a decorative object for the most part. She was also, of course, a brood mare for the next generation, and a source of sexual outlet that was safer than a prostitute and less expensive and risky socially than a mistress. This is powerful stuff. It is seductively beautiful and vivid in the pictures it paints of London in a certain era and a certain upper class neighborhood. It is also highly evocative of the complicated feelings that women can experience with regard to men, and to women, in their lives. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde presents an ancient conflict, in what, at the time, would have seemed to be a very fantastical manner. Using a framing story in a way that reminds the reader of Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson offers the reader a chance to imagine the descent of a mind from intellectual healer to a beast of selfishness and uncontrolled desires. This is a very dramatic way of showing how human nature is multi-faceted and has negative aspects. The war within each human being between what their best and their worst impulses is constant. It could be pointed to as the source of all the great religions, and probably of all law and civilization. Stevenson, in the voice of Jekyll himself, refers to the better impulses as “balancing instincts” (Stevenson). These are the promptings of conscience and fellow feeling that, for example, prevent someone from battering an elderly person encountered on the street, as the Hyde identity does. The effects of the mysterious drugs that Jekyll discovers remind the modern reader of the horrifying way that some illicit substances today make their users behave. There are horrifying stories of people eating other people’s faces off, for example, and this sort of bestial action is ver
The existence of the justice system, which the entire society is based on, has always been a hot-button issue for philosophers. Some (Locke, for example) argued that justice has an intrinsic value and, therefore, is a basic principle of the universe’s existence. Others, like Hobbes, claim that justice is the concept that was created and is defined by people and, therefore, cannot exist outside of human society. Although both viewpoints seem very legitimate, Hobbes’s idea that the state of nature is the state of war and, therefore, all people are free to pursue their desires, is more credible, seeing how in nature, the concept of equilibrium is a more appropriate way of describing the balance of the right and wrong than the idea of justice is. Seeing justice as a concept that stretches well beyond the human culture and expands into the realm of nature, Locke, basically, notes the key imperfections of the given system as the execution of the only-the-strong-survive principle. Moreover, Locke notices that justice as the weapon of those beholding power may be turned against the people whom this system is called to protect: “The great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world” (“Second Treatise” p. 342). Therefore, Locke makes it obvious that people have an intrinsic sense of justice and, thus, are limited in the choice of their actions by the liberty principles that they have created. When it comes to analyzing the legitimacy of Locke’s viewpoint, one must mention that the philosopher addresses a number of issues that are topical even nowadays. For instance, the corruption and abuse of power, which can be observed at present in a number of states on various levels, is still topical and widely discussed in media. The given phenomenon, according to Locke, is one of the many flaws of the existing justice system. In addition, Locke also makes a very powerful statement by saying that, God, Who, according to Christianity, is the only source of true power, is the creator of the universe; hence, the universe m
In order for managers of minor and major companies to be successful with their decisions, it is essential to be closely acquainted with an extended number of business concepts and apply them properly. For instance, it is rather beneficial for leaders to understand the concepts of income and price elasticity, and numerous real-world examples prove that specific changes in price may be risky but beneficial. The purpose of this paper is to talk about income and price elasticity and provide Netflix’s decision as an example. To begin with, it is necessary to explain the value of the two business concepts. As noticed by Hayes, “income elasticity of demand refers to the sensitivity of the quantity demanded for a certain good to a change in real income of consumers who buy this good.” Therefore, it describes the connection between the income of a customer and their demand for a certain product. Further, price elasticity of supply refers to measuring the effect of changes in price on the demand and supply of goods (Hayes). Therefore, the leaders of companies need to be able to apply these concepts properly in order to predict how changes in prices or customers’ incomes may affect supply and demand. There is a real-life example of a major subscription streaming service increasing its prices. According to Wingfield and Steltern, in 2011, Netflix changed its subscription prices and made customers pay about sixty percent more for each month. Since the company needed money to expand and upgrade its library content, the leaders made this choice despite the protests of the subscribers. Surely, there was a temporary loss of customers because their incomes did not increase, but the expansion of the library attracted new clients. Thus, it is possible to say that Netflix managers can apply price elasticity successfully. Works Cited Hayes, Adam. “Elasticity.” Investopedia , Web. Wingfield, Nick, and Brian Stelter. “How Netflix Lost 800,000 Members, and Good Will.” The New York Times , Web.
The character that has been chosen for the case study is Rick Stallsworth, the founder and CEO of The Games Forum. Rick is very arrogant and does not like the idea of other people challenging his decisions. For example, whenever the sales and marketing director gave a suggestion, Rick would be quick to remind her that he was the boss. Thus, everything he said was right and should not be challenged. Rick is also demeaning. He starts to criticize and demean the sales and marketing director whenever she disagrees with his actions. Additionally, he also dismisses the opinions of other directors accusing them of being alarmists. Cherry (2010) explains that an alarmist is someone who often sees the bad things in life. Alarmists often get too scared to do anything as they see danger all over. Such people often fail in business because business involves a lot of risk-taking. Rick made a lot of decisions that touched the careers of the directors. For example, he decided to penetrate the Chinese market by the end of the year. He m
Is punishment justified if it was attributed to an immoral act? Is the degree of punishment dependent on the gravity of the offense against morality? In the first place, what constitutes an immoral act? There are so many questions and so many arguments surrounding the concept of punishment. Everything boils down to punishment as a measure and consequence of a wrongdoing. Now, we ask again: What acts are classified as wrongdoings? The concept of what is wrong and what is right goes hand in hand with the concept of being moral or immoral. Rightness and wrongness are more measureable terms because they are based on actual and written rules. Morality and immorality on the other hand, are more difficult to assess and determine because these values may not be written or codified, but are simply ingrained into the value system of a society or a culture. Before we proceed to a discourse on more specific intentions and reasons for punishment we should proceed with the analysis of two opposite approaches to punishment (namely, capital punishment) and on their basis propose our own vision. Hook (Moral matters, p. 133) argues that there should be two exceptions in the matter concerning death sentence as a capital form of punishment. The first relates to the situation when defendant convicted of murder was sentenced to life. According to Hook he/she should have possibility to choose between death sentence and life. The author claims that notwithstanding the fact that some jurists and moralists claim that death punishment is immoral or even not effective in terms of the role punishment should serve capital punishment chosen consciously by a certain person should enter into action. The second exception for the capital punishment according to Hook is the case when a person commits a murder again after his/her imprisonment for a murder. According to Hook if punishment in form of imprisonment does not have affect on a person, then it means that he/she while sane has certain psychological or moral deviation that make him deserve capital punishment. All moral sentiments are in this case damaging for society. Narveson (1999) claims that moral norms embedded in legislation should follow universal norms so as to say are applicable to all persons and situations. They are not subjective or applicable from time to time or by somebody’s desire but instead should serve the role of universal rules. These assumptions challenge the notion of moral relativism which is wide-spread today. This approach is grounded on the need of elaboration of effective and comprehensive framework for ensuring citizen’s rights and securities. In my view the theoretical positions of Hook and Narveson are different one from each other. The first uses pr
Because of the versatility of human culture, the issues seemingly different may have a lot in common. Thus, the issue of language can be closely interconnected with the idea of power, while the latter can be intertwined with the concept of identity. Tracing the way people build their relationships and become a part of the society, one will find the explanation of such interrelation between the concepts which could seem so distanced from each other. Language, Power and Identity: The Links That Make a Man According to Lakoff’s ideas, there is a certain connection between the concepts of language, identity and power. Explaining it with the examples of how a human nature works, Lakoff demonstrates that the three notions make the core of human’s existence and its essence. It is quite obvious that language is closely connected with a man’s identity. Possessing the knowledge of a language means belonging to a particular ethnic group, which, in its turn, means that a man belongs to a certain nationality. Thus, the links between the language and the culture cannot be doubted. It is worth noticing that the links between the language and the power are much more entangled than one could have thought. Making the explorers of the phenomenon plunge into the depth of human’s psychology and people’s instincts inherited from ancestors, people use their language as the power tool for them to control the situation. As Lakoff notices, this is the phenomenon of the so-called “political use of language”. Driving the example, of lawyers’ dependence on the language which (s)he uses, Lakoff comes to the sudden yet logical conclusion which says that power is physical, and language is power; thus, it can be suggested that language is quite a physical tool. Applying the Theory to the Reality To demonstrate the efficiency of Lakoff’s theory in practice, it could be a good idea to take certain institution as an example. One of the most obvious cases is the example of mass-media institution. Enjoying rather great influence, they make an efficient use of language. Tracing the way the mass-media impacts the people, it becomes obvious that the theory of Lakoff is completely true. With such influential tools as the famous “magical thinking” at hand, the modern mass-media shapes people’s ideas of a certain event, situation or phenomenon. Thus, it can be suggested that the mass media as an institution possesses certain power over people’s minds, making them think in certain way. Because of its hierarchy which allows to influence all ranks of society, mass media possesses great power over people. Gripping the television, magazines and even pictures (photojournalism), it confirms the idea of Lakoff completely. It could be argued though that people are not always subjected to the outer influence, since they can produce a judgement of their own; however, in this case the authority of the source of information must be taken into account. It is quite doubtful that one would try to make his/her own vision of the situation if the plausible explanation has already been suggested to him/her. Not to follow the blazed trail of th
“I Have a Dream” is widely regarded as the most memorable speech delivered by the American clergyman and civil rights activist, Martin Luther King. This address was made on August 28, 1963, to a gathering of two hundred and fifty thousand people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. In the speech, King inspired the people to be steadfast in their fight for civil rights in the country. Many historians agree that this speech was instrumental in the eventual passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an act that guaranteed equality among the races in the previously segregated America. In this speech, King addressed three major points on freedom, oppression, and nonviolent protest. The first major point made by King through his speech was that the freedom and equality of all Americans were guaranteed. The speech referenced the abolition of slavery when it stated that “Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation” (King 1). Through the proclamation, the African Americans who had been held as slaves for centuries were freed. As free citizens, King believed that they were entitled to the same rights as the white citize
Giving up meat foods in favor of eating only plant ones characterizes a vegetarian way of life. As a rule, such people lead a more conscious, relaxed, and healthy lifestyle. At the same time, more people are converting to vegetarianism or even strict veganism. Thus, the fundamental question of nutrition is how safe and effective it is to give up meat products. In fact, vegetarianism is associated with a more effective lifestyle than eating meat. Notably, eating plants is rarely a forced necessity but instead reflects an individual’s deep moral and ethical values (Smith et al., 2018, p. 227). Thus, from a cognitive science perspective, vegetarians and vegans have an attitude of respect for wildlife and the soul and are therefore more kind, restrained, and caring than those who can eat dead flesh (TheAnimalHolocaust, 18:30). Including vegetarians are more likely to engage in spiritual practices and health-promoting yoga (Katz-Feinstein, 2020). However, this does not mean that everyone should give up meat just since they want to be closer to nature. Giving up meat is only a tool to achieve intimacy with nature, but meat-eaters can use other methods as well. Additionally, it is important to understand that vegetarianism itself is a belief system with multiple ramifications. While a culture of avoidance of animal foods forms the foundation of vegetarianism, eliminating specific foods from one’s diet determines the shape of that eating habit (McPhillips, 2020). For example, the avoidance of all animal foods other than chicken eggs and milk is commonly referred to as ovo-lacto vegetarianism. Eating meat only from cold-blooded animals forms the idea of pescetarianism. The strict exclusion of any animal products is called veganism, while the occasional, infrequent intake of meat products characterizes the diet of flexitarians. One radical way of vegetarianism is plant-based raw eating, but this approach has serious medical caveats. Ultimately, vegetarianism should not be viewed as an ordinary, monotonous system. On the contrary, this style of eating generalizes various ideas of giving up a particular animal product. A significant issue is determining whether a vegetarian lifestyle is safe for the consumer. The strongest arguments in favor of eating meat argue that plant foods cannot provide a complete diet of nutrients, including essential amino acid