Followership roles are sometimes difficult because they as the people have a hard time following the rules the leaders put into place. You have to be willing to listen and open to new ideas and communicating to improve the things and events going on around you. Sometimes followership is tough because Americans is also afraid of failure or what others might think of them.
Americans are still very cynical in today's world as they were back in later times. With today's current protest, and presidential debates going on a lot of Americans are judgmental and cynical about what they believe in or what they stand for. They sometimes listen to others and their opinions and sometimes it's hard to sway others minds, where other Americans are easier and feed off each others input.
In the last paragraph, Eisenhower says "always try to associate yourself with the learn as much are you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you." This means don't limit yourself and have a close mind. You can learn from each others ideas or mistakes. Someone will always know more than you do and you can benefit from this, instead of criticize or poorly communicate, take it to the heart, and benefit from the knowledge they might be able to offer you.
Lacey,
ReplyDeleteI agree that everyone is not born to be a leader. There are some people who lack many skills it takes to be a leader. I agree that a leader in America has to have cofidence in thier self, as well as cofidence in America as a country. I don't want anyone running the country I live in to be unconfident in what they are saying they will do for our country.
I agreed with you Lacy that America has a followership problem. I agreed that everyone is not equipped for being a leader. Americans is a country of the free and individualism his highly respected. Many Americans want to always be a leader instead of being a part of a healthy followership. I also agreed that America is more cynical than ever before and the current presidential election is the perfect example. I disagree that America have more of a followership versus a leadership problem. I think America’s followership problem is just as equal as America’s Leadership problem. The leaders are not stepping up and making healthy and fair decisions, for example the increase in blacks and police brutality. America leadership problem is very vivid in this case in this day in time.
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