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33. “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.

2005-11-22

The issue of whether a leader should has an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform is a complex and controversial one. Different people hold different views due to their respective angles. On the one hand, as is well-known and has often been advocated, there is no Mr. Know-all all over the world; there is no one that has the ability to perform every tasks; others probably insist that without knowing how to do the tasks, the leader will not be persuasive. We do not have to look very far to see the valid standpoint of this matter. In the following analysis, I would like to reason and provide evidence favoring the former one and refuting the latter one.

In the first place, the important reason that can be presented to develop my position is that today there is a trend to teamwork. Everyone has its own advantages; the most effective way to finish a task is gather the different specialized skills that required from different people within the organization. Being able to gather the most efficient group of people and motive this group of people willing to work is the ability that required on a leader today, not finishing all the tasks by himself or herself, or wasting his or her energy to learn how to do all of the tasks himself or herself before distributing the tasks. Therefore, it is obvious that a leader should know how to accomplish all the tasks that he or she expect people to do is senseless.

In addition, there is another reason for me to consider the latter statement to be wrong. The reason is not far to seek: there are some talent jobs that not everyone can do. To illustrate, a case in point in this respect is in a project of rebuilding a World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan. Do the leader of this project know everything about designing the building? I think his job would be finding the right designers. What is more, the mayor is the leader of a city, does he or she has to be able to do the jobs, which the scientists are doing in the city research center, are doing? However, it is not hard to figure it out that the answer is no.

Admittedly, a leader without knowing anything about the tasks that he or she expects other to perform might not be persuasive. Whereas the thing is, today, in such an information era, things are getting more and more diverse. A wise leader should know how to make good use of the human resource, making the specialized skills of the leaders less and less important. And that is why Human Resource Management was founded and developed. What is more, rather than ability to perform all the tasks, other abilities such as communication, social skills, etc, are required from leaders in modern management.

Due to the above-mentioned reason, we may safely arrive at the conclusion that I support—there is no need for a leader to have the ability to perform all the tasks that he or she expects others to perform.

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