▶ Your Answer :
The majority of people in their early to
mid-twenties think that people are not able to learn to be a leader since
leadership is a born-gift. This notion, however, does not reflect the stance
that I hold and should be thought about in a different light. I believe that
people are able to learn to be a leader by traveling other cultures. This is
because traveling other cultures enables people to respect for others and
strengthen responsibility.
First
of all, traveling other cultures allows people to respect for others.
Initially, I thought that people are not able to learn to be a leader since
leadership is a born-gift. However, after having read many experts’ opinions
from major newspapers, I changed my view. I realized that people could lack
chances to respect for others without traveling other cultures. Traveling to
new destinations means opportunities to learn new ideas, because what is
commonly accepted as the cultural norm at home may not be the case in other
cultures. For example, lunch at work in my country is usually only an hour long
and many employees even rush through their meals to maximize time for work.
Thus, those who take longer lunch breaks would be branded as unproductive.
However, when traveling Hispanic countries, I noticed that lunch hours can last
as long as two to three hours. It was explained to me that face time to eat
with friends and family is more important than productivity at work. Being able
to shift perspectives helped me to respect better for those from different
cultural values. This experience was convincing enough to change my initial
thoughts, and I learned that traveling other cultures plays a significant role
in respecting for others, which results in learning to be a leader.
Moreover,
traveling other cultures motivates people to strengthen responsibility.
Interestingly, a renowned social scientist in South Korea published an article
in “The Korean Herald” last Tuesday which claims that traveling other cultures
contributes to learning to be leader. The article argued that 62 percent of 200
Korean senior executives at leading corporations stated that the key to their
success was their experience of traveling other cultures. This was because they
could strengthen their responsibility. They added that responsibility is
regarded more highly now than in the past because today’s huge problems and
tasks have to be resolved by one individual’s talent and ability. I thought of
this report because the results of the survey resonated with my thoughts.
To
sum up, I believe that people are able to learn to be a leader by traveling
other cultures for the following reasons: respecting for others and
strengthening responsibility. Consequently, the importance of my view cannot be
underestimated for the reasons I have mentioned above.
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