Arguments Of The 'Wizard And The Warrior'

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II. SALIENT POINT The writers consider the following argument of the authors as relevant in influencing the readers:
a) Leaders need the sword to defend a group and its way of life, and they also need the wand to produce and transform social values and ways.
b) Leaders must accept cultural reality, and challenge it because they realize its possibilities. Leaders also need to see the world together as it is and as it might be, while being clear about the difference among the two.
c) Leaders must learn by distinguishing and sensing. The great leader’s need great powers of observation. They must see, hear, feel and smell acutely and perceptively.
d) Leaders must be both strategists and visionaries. They need the analytical brilliance of the great strategist as well as the imagination and insight of the visionary.
e) Leaders must have an extra-ordinary ability to embrace both sides of tensions and polarities others see as unbridgeable opposites.
f) Leaders must combine the power …show more content…

It convinced me that as leaders, we can achieve our mission more successfully by embracing the practicality of struggle and magic, power and essence in our organizations.
Important moments in the lives of leaders from different years illuminate pathways to track and pitfalls to avoid. These lessons can provide awareness and perspective that will be helpful in my own journey leading my personnel towards accomplishing naval objectives and targets.
Among the 6 chapters, it was chapter three (The Warrior Path) that I can relate most. Because I also believe that victory is not only the product of mind, skill and weapon, but most important is the factor of heart that gives passion, courage and persistence that are crucial to success. In the field of naval service, it is very important that you love your profession and you’re committed to the organization towards achieving its

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