Category: Power and leadership study
Research question: ” How does the power and leadership change social orders?”2
what most attract me is the perspective of corruption in different levels and where does power comes from.
Suppose if we give overall power to a person, will this person follow what we exactly want he is? The truth is, people who are in lower and middle level are the major power to change the social orders.
Most famous leaders were born in unstable periods of their countries, people need a representative to overthrow what they against of, and their representatives are able to have equal treatment and justice. But a leader cannot solve problems perfectly if this leader have too much powers. Just ignore feudalism, there’s only a group who control all of the powers based on democratic society, and this group called people. Therefor, if you want to be a leader of the society, the basic requirement for you is to persuade a group of people.
One of the major problem is how to control a large group of people. Same as the limitation of a teacher, if there’s only a few students in classroom, it is easier for a teacher to understand the abilities and needs for each of the students. But this teacher cannot consider too much of them if there’s a large group of students in here.
Same as in political system, leaders who are response to lead a small group are more thoughtful than leaders who have power to control a large group. In fact, the owner of the power is the local citizens, because they have power to elect a leader and to overthrow a leader.
Research question : ” How does power and leadership change the social order” 1
After finished the book “ The Wave“, a question come to me: Can a person with strong power are able to change the society? Or even a nation?
A good example of this question was Martin Luther King , who encouraged thousand of black people in U.S to fight for their freedom and respect. What shocked me is the spirits of King’s followers, and even King was surprise that his followers are so loyalty and trust-worthless to him. King believed the best solution for discrimination is to forgive each others, he do not encourage his followers solve the problems through an unreasonable solutions such as against the cops, however, he only have power to persuade a group, not to stop a group.
Same in ” The Wave“, the founder of ” Wave” never expect to spread his party that so far, and finally he was involve in this impasses.
Relate to the question , we see that every leaders never want their parties into an unmanageable situation.
One factor that can cause a crowd into mad is the faith of a person, in general, a faith is a spiritual force of a person, and a understanding of the importance of this faith is propaganda or expand it.