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Being a leader requires devotion charisma,
intelligence, and may other qualities. As it is not an easy task, unqualified
people assuming leadership would bring terrible ramifications. For the most people,
it is better to be the best follower than to be a leader for the following two
reasons: being a leader need to take a responsibility of the group and that act
would take away personal time for the group works.
Being
a leader needs to take all of the responsibilities of the group that he would
not have to if he were a follower. Especially, criticism for unfavorable
outcome is pointed to a leader. I will take an example of my experiences
related with undertaking bad result. When one of my friends was a squad leader
in army, one of the squad members committed suicide for his personal hardship
and no internal factors of the group affected his decision. However, as my friend
was a leader, he had to take all the blames and charges and all of the
followers were not charged with that accident. This example clearly shows that
being a follower can be free from responsibilities of actions.
Not
only receiving criticisms, but also lack of personal time is a problem for
being a leader. A leader has his personal tasks as other member have and all of
them have equal time for work. However, the difference between a follower and a
leader is that leader needs to undertake group work such as coordination and
reporting. The general example for this would be a director of departments in universities.
Normally, directors have to research and teach students just like other
professors belong to the department because he is also a professor. However,
the leader also needs to do extra administrative works for the group. As this
extra work would take precious time way, it is better to be a follower to focus
on own work.
The
leader position is an honorable and admirable position that many people dream
to be. As there are always two sides to everything, the chief position can also
be a disaster choice for unqualified people by not having personal time and
taking responsibilities. Therefore, I firmly believe that to be a follower is a
better choice.
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