AI033，第四篇，还有四天，请大家多提宝贵意见！

`People are likely to accept as a leader only someone who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform.~

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

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Your Answer:

Recently there is a view that people are likely to accept as a leader only someone who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform. As we know, leadership itself is a complicated management concept which can be affected or defined by many factors, not just the ability to perform the same tasks. In this sense, I don't agree the speaker. In my point view, when we decide to accept a leader, we should focus on whether  he or she has strong leadership, rather than whether he or she performed well on the same tasks.

Firstly, a leader's intitial role is to provide leadership to his or her team. Leadership mainly comes  from individual charisma - the ability to motivate others to work with him or her to achieve their common goals. Leaders don't necessarily have to know everything about the tasks. A good example can be found in the case that the President of the States doesn't know every simple area in the public adminitration, such as education, military, healthy service, transportation, etc. With the development of the society, no one can know everything. Therefore, we can't expect a leader to be an expert in the tasks that he or she manages.

Secondly, the ability to perfom the same tasks well is not a indicator of strong leadership. It could demonstrate that he or he is a good doer, but can't substantiate he or she is a leader. For exmaple, in our company, Wal Mart China, we promoted some department managers  to store general managers who had good performance when they were department managers. But we found we couldn't perform well in the position of store general managers. Why is like that? They lack strong leadership.

Admittely, some peoole will argue that if a leader we accpet  has sound knowledge in the tasks, we can gain more guidance or direction from him or her. It is true that such a leader might be able to provide more professional consultation due to his or her previous expericen. However, with the changing and fiercely competitive world, we can't expect our leaders know everything.

And a leader wih strong leadershp can also provide good direction!

Consequently, we can't judge leadership only by whether he or she successfully performed the same task. We should look into his or her leadership quality-motivate others to achieve the common objectives.

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时间把握的不太好，几乎是最后一秒钟完成，第一段用了十分钟，感觉有东西写，却有点写不出来，另外个人觉的论点展开的不大有深度。请大家提提意见和建议，还有四天了！

第一段10分钟太长了，看看模版什么的会有帮助的。但是写的还是挺好的。结构是我自己也特别喜欢的那种正正反呵呵。至于深度已经可以拉。你写的太深人工会觉得你鄙视他而产生反感情绪。还是那个建议留点时间检查。

"留点时间检查"--教导有理！

一不小心暴露身份了，等考完和你聊的你的选修课吧。