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<p>Prompt: It is important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority. </p>
<p>Authority cant be valid permanently, and blindly believing the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority may plant false belief in our mind inveterately. Although following the authority can sometimes be expedient when facing dilemma, we indeed need to question the authority, to break through the shackles and to build a new sky for creativity. Examples from Jack Welch and Thomas Paine can properly prove that.</p>
<p>One great example comes from Jack Welch, CEO of General Electricity(GE), who challenged the inveterate corporate culture mode and embarked on his renovations through the 1980s. By cutting the prevalently used lackluster old-line units and dismantling the unnecessary parts, most of which were using by other competitive company at that time, Welch eradicated inefficiency and paved the way for future development of GE. Welch also streamlined his company, motivated his staffs, and expanded the broadness of the stock option from just top executives. With these strategies which gained encomium, he successfully increased the recorded revenues of his company from $26.8 billion to $130 billion, thereafter his policies are now widely adopted by many CEOs cross the America, and even throughout the world. Welch is a fascinating businessman to analyze because he undergoes many adversities when questioning the authority and finally, turns a dying company to one of the worlds leading enterprise. Only by challenging the ideas and decisions of authority can he achieve his goal, and we can always find a sense of creativity in his GE legend.</p>
<p>Another persuasive example pertains to Thomas Paine, a British revolutionary who challenged the colonial ruling and urged to build a democratic society. At the beginning of the American Revolution, the American colonies were, with deep misgivings and hesitancy, moving toward independence. Few people favored complete independence, while Loyalists, who firmly believed in conservative thoughts, were powerful. However, dismissing monarchy, Thomas Paine, an early advocate of republicanism and liberalism, published his ideas bravely in Common Sense in 1776. The book was outspoken, touché and pierced to the truth, which he firmly believed. It quickly spread among the literate, and, in three months, 120,000 copies sold throughout the American British colonies. It impressed deeply upon everyones mind that his belief become one of the most important ideology of the American Revolution. In seeing the ways to break through the shackles put by Loyalists, Thomas Paine was able to liberate peoples inveterate thinking and, by publicizing Paines democratic idea, America emancipates herself. If no one had stand out to reveal the dark ruling by Loyalists, America would have still be in a position which people were coerced by colonialism.</p>
<p>Jack Welch and Thomas Paine all got their fames by questioning the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority and by proposing their creative viewpoint. There would be no question that challenging the authority can always motive our society to advance. It will always be the case in the past and in the future.</p>
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