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Week 4

Thursday

Reflection

As we are heading towards week five where we discuss how formal and informal education prepares you for leadership, I came across this post on my Facebook wall recently that sums up a critical and alarming viewpoint about anti-mentorship as well as education.

If this image made you think, made you look around and find out how disturbing and sad the reality of the world we live in is, then you have experienced similar emotions like me. There are many questions that came to my head after reading this post. And here I am trying to come as close as I can to finding the answers to them. Where do I begin? Let’s establish one thing before we go on to addressing the questions: I do not believe that education always succeeds in shaping a person’s beliefs and conscience in a good way. Education, as seen numerous times, can be subjective. It depends on how one uses his or her education. It is possible for a physician to kill a number of people, but another physician who went through the same coursework in the same class provide free treatment services to people. Therefore, we have to make sure that education actually serves to benefit people rather than just be used a source of destruction. An education that teaches people to separate right and wrong. As a good leader, you not only need to educated yourself everyday, but you must also make sure that the people under you have the right to education that not only teaches them things but also instills more empathetic and rational values in them. The education system should instill inclusive behaviors in its recipients. I feel like making students learn about different cultures and ways of living would help them understand humanity in a more broader way.

Tuesday

Assignment 1

When I came to the US, almost four years now, I was a little shy about meeting new friends. It probably came out of being anxious about how would a completely new place treat me.

I definitely will be anxious about not fitting in, because different culture means different world where different things are perceived very differently. For instance, football that is the most popular sport in the US, is not even heard of in my society. What they call soccer here is football for us. If I go to the countryside of Nepal, and tell people that there is a game called football where players hold the ball on their hands and run, I will definitely be laughed at.

Who does not enjoys a little encouragement at a place where you practically do not know anyone very well.

2. Anxiousness about not being as good at things as your new friends and therefore not fitting in

Shyness of apprehension about meeting new friends

3. Eagerness to please your new friends and win them over to your side

Shame at casting off your home culture/country in exchange for trying to assimilate a new one

Self-pity that you do not deserve such a lot in life

4. Wear completely different clothes
neutral

Eat food that you don’t care for
neutral

Partake of drugs and alcohol that you know your parents would not approve of
neutral

Compete with people your own age who are already much better at the skills you are trying to master
difficult

Be at your best in spite of how the son of your host father will resent you
easy

Form friendship networks between the father of your host family and the other people in the country
easy

Put the interests of the citizens in your new country above your own
neutral

Make requests of the father of your host family, even if you think he might not approve
difficult

Risk offending your host family by declining to do something that they consider culturally acceptable but which you consider morally wrong
neutral

Assignment 2

a) Step One

What does it mean to “lead globally”?

What is the difference between a global leader and every other kind of leader? Who is obviously not a global leader and what are such leaders lacking? I.e., what are the crucial traits of global leadership?

When you picture a global leader in your mind, do you see a man or a woman? Why do you think that is?

b) Step two

How do you think you would train someone to be a global leader?

Specifically, what subjects would a person study and how would they develop the traits you believe are necessary to lead globally?

How old do you need to be in order to lead globally? Explain your answer.

Step three

Annotated below you will see specific Cyrus’ specific character traits and the character traits that all Persian young men are trained to possess. For each trait explain whether the trait is or is not particularly necessary for global leadership.

What indication does Xenophon give that the Persian educational system (agoge) is designed to train global leaders? If it is not designed to train global leaders, what kind of leaders do you think it is designed to train?

Does Cyrus come across as more masculine than feminine or more feminine than masculine, according to your understanding of these terms?

Thursday

Assignment

Step four

In chapters 3–5 of Book One below identify the traits that Cyrus exhibits as well as any skills he acquires. Explain how each one is similar to or different from the traits and skills mentioned in chapters 1–2.

Are any of these new “global” leadership traits in your opinion?

How, in general, does Cyrus’ “education” in Media differ from his education in Persia?

What problems of leadership that you have studied so far does Cyrus seem well-suited to overcome? Based on what you have seen so far, what problems do you expect Cyrus will have to face later in his career?

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