week 8. confirmation

    First trait of the healthy mental that the leader should have is the resilience according to the health website mentalhealth.about.com. It has been long known that some people handle stress better than others. The more resilience you have, the less stress you get. Good leaders should overcome the difficulties and bounce back from the adversity with the resilience. While doing the work, everyone must have confront failure. It's hard for anyone to forget the memory that he had failed. However, good leader should calm oneself and restart the work to step forward to the better future.
   Second is flexibility according to an article www.pritikin.com. Here, we should clear up the difference between the boss and the leader. There's a popular words spoken by E.M Kelly, "While boss says go- the leader says let's go." Leader is a person who accommodate various opinions and go together with his followers. According to forum.woodenboat.com the two computer genius Steve Jobs and Bill Gates can be a good example to explain this. Steve Jobs was a leader who was more closer to a boss.  He was a demanding perfectionist who ran Apple like a dictatorship, who typed angry emails to his critics, who regularly lost his temper when his employees do not do enough to please him, and who felt beyond his own rules. In contrast, Bill Gates was a person just right for the good leader. He was one of the most richest, yet humble man who never took granted for what he accomplished, who wrote code for years along with his employees even despite the fact that he was of higher authority than they were, who constantly donated to charitable causes during and after his time as chairman of Microsoft, who was strict with his employees while still being respectful to them. The most notable difference is that while Steve Jobs got angry when his followers were against him, Bill Gates always respected their opinion in a low attitude. By looking at this, I could understand why people think highly of Bill Gates than Steve Jobs.
    Third is warm heart. According to a new nationwide Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey, 80% of the women answered that compassionate is the most important in the leadership. True leader can share the blood, cry, and sweat with the followers. Here's an anecdote of America president Lincoln in his biography <The Real Abraham Lincoln>. During the Civil War, president Lincoln visited every hospital where the injured veterans were gathered. Lincoln took an approach to the soldier who was hardly damaged, looked almost dying. He asked the soldier that is there something he can help. The soldier answered he wants to write last letter to his mother and plead to write a letter. Lincoln dictated everything the soldier told, and watched him dying with grabbing his hands. Sharing the grief and happiness is the leader's main work.