QUESTION: Can a group of people function effectively without someone being in charge?
A leader of a group is a member of great responsibility towards his or her people. the reason people might argue whether an authority is needed or not is that a person in charge has the ability to either lead a succesful group or drown his or her people down to the ocean of failure. The following examples illustrating the importance of having an individual leader in literature and experience reflect how I believe that each group of people having a certain goal should be leaded by a strong head.
In a legendary story, there was a village that was controlled by two leaders. Although they were both strong rulers, they usually had a few differences, but they managed to overlook them. As years passed, each ruler started to forgo with his own beliefs, dragging a group of people into his beliefs. Indeed, the division of people onto groups led to a civil war which then marked the village's decline. Because the group of people was led by two different rulers, it diversed into different branches. If people were able to settle on having a meditated leader, they wouldn't have allowed differences to grow between them.
In the same way, a few years ago, I had a friend who attended engineering school. Students there were assigned to do a project where they have to dig wells, extract petroleum, and present their work. My friend complained about the injustice of the group division, as her group didn't have enough skill needed for the project, while other groups were composed of more skillful people. However, she was assigned as the group leader, and she started assigning members for each task, while other groups agreed to have no leaders as they believed that assigning a leader would create jealousy and pride. While my friend was finalizing her project, others were each working without a director, therefore being led to a mistake in the digging technique which led to the burst of the well. At that time, most groups failed their projects while my friend's group got an "A". If other groups were able to elect a strong and wise leader and overcome their "childish" senses of jealousy and envy, they would've been able to have a "well" organized and directed project.
In a nutshell, the wisdom of choosing a leader is the key to a strong and successful community. If no person were in authority, every little group of people would follow its own desires leading to conflicts. If we all embraced this lesson, we would create a peaceful society with a wise director to lead us to community success and justice.
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