Cadet Keye Warren

Leadership – Selfless servitude to others with the mutually unspoken agreement to meet the needs of a common goal. (&)

 

A leader’s most important purpose is to be a figure that followers can look to for confident and informed guidance, and sometimes the gumption to accomplish a task. (+)

 

An ideal leader is someone who can be personable to a team second, and a servant first. An ideal leader will always have their followers’ best interests at heart and will be able to weather the storm of morality often present in leading positions. An ideal leader must be able to tread the line between “sticking to their guns” and adapting to the needs of their followers. It’s a difficult balance between two very radical extremes, but an ideal leader will have a good head on their shoulders and be able and willing to make difficult decisions when the time inevitably comes. (=)

 

An ethical leader is likely someone who is a harmonizer. A person who can think of the greater interests of their team, as well as others if the situation calls for it. My values of benevolence, tradition, and stability mean that my assessment of leaders comes down to how well the team harmonizes outside of team activities. (1)

 

Often when I find myself in a leadership role its born out of a necessity. If no one else is able or willing to, that’s when I feel comfortable taking over, and I’m working to get out of that bubble. Ultimately, I want to make sure that my followers don’t make the same mistakes I did, unless they need to. (2)

 

I’d like to be known as a leader that led by wisdom and example. I place great value on maintaining a “close circle” of friends, usually to the degree where I will reach out to 1-3 people at a time together in confidence depending on the situation at hand. This aligns with my high benevolence score. This in combination with other high scores in tradition and stability means that I can well maintain these “in-groups”, and where the number of people I can rely on might lack in quantity, is made up for in quality. (3)

 

I’m afraid of losing the support of my team or rather earning their ire. This is likely an unfortunate fact of leadership that will get easier on me the more that it happens. (4)