Week Nine Writing Assignment

I was impressed this sentence; Accepting the reality that leadership skills are developed through long periods of striving with only moderate signs of progress.

From this sentence, I learned that the leaders have to be patient. It's very difficult, especially in the case which have only few signs of progress. The difficulty is that keeping own and others motivation, I guess. If I can't see the obvious progress, I might give up and I may look for other things which are easier to feel an achievement. According to the sentence, however, the leadership skills are improved through such a long stressful period. To overcome the period, the leaders need to have eyes which look at far situation. In my final presentation in this class, I said to you "the leaders should have "insect eyes" and "bird eyes", especially they must see the situation widely with "bird eyes". I realize that "bird eyes" are included that seeing the far view and vision.

While reading this part of book, I was considering about "Yutori(pressure-free) education". I actually was taught in this system. But, the government stopped to use this system even the students still under 20years old and there are not obvious problem about "Yutori education". So, the government had to wait the time which can analyze the result of "Yutori education" enough.

I'd like to remember that the leaders have to be calm and analyze the situation carefully. To quit the project is easier than keeping the severe situation, but I hope that we can get something though the difficulty.