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Although sound moral judgment is an important characteristic of an effective leader, it is not as important as a leader’s ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position My response- A successfull organization characterstics comprises of excellent brand name, futuristic vision and growth mindset. For any organisation to exhibit these things the secret ingredient is only one powerful leadership which can make all of this happen!Every company to be successfulll needs a leader that has a sound moral judgement and is an honesty and fair individual. That is why leaders are appointed in first place to give a direction to the people working under them.If for a leader needs to take a side between choosing the right thing and respecting peers decision the predence should always be given to do the right thing. It it vital to any company's long term success and reputation. This is an important quality that any company needs to steer organizanisation that wants to reach new paradigms, guide a company through its tough times. Such situations inevitably demand thorough and intense discussion between the leadership members of an organization. If during such discussion between company board members some members come up with an opinion A and another group come with opinion B then the onus of wise and decision favoring company's health lies on its top lead i.e. the CEO. These difficult circumstances can only be handled assiduosly by a leader who has skills to do a sound judgement and enforce it amongs his/her people.A companies long term health and progress can only be assured if it has one such leader which people can co-relate with the company. These very people become the brand ambassador of the organisations they lead. Microsoft and Bill Gates or Apple and Steve Jobs are synonyms names today. Entire world respects Microsoft and Apple for its excellent products and their contribution to the community. This could not have been possible if they would not have leaders like Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs even after being removed from APPLE came back to APPLE only because of the leadership skills and the mindset he had and we all know what brand APPLE is.There is a famous quote "If you walk along you will only grow small, if you want to grow big you should walk along with people". The leadership should also respect its peers and their opinions on any matter related to the organization. I would like to conclude that based on the different responses the decision which is good for company should be implemented by the leader.

Those who see their ideas through, regardless of doubts or criticism others may express, are the ones who tend to leave a lasting legacy. People generally criticize what they don't understand or what they think is impossible to do. They think, if I can't do it then nobody can. Even if someone is trying hard to do it, instead of motivating him they will criticize that person for thinking of impossible. However, It takes quite a vision and will power to go against the tide and achieve your goal. The people who do that leave a legacy behind them. For instance, Steve Jobs, The genius and the maverick. He had a vision for his company. That vision was to built a perfect product. When they were building iphone or imac, there was this huge decision, that either we should go for third party software or create our own OS. Everybody in the company was open towards third party software because it would save company a lot of cost and time. But, as maverick he is, he believed that a third party software would cause many problems in the devices. There could the issues of security, performance etc. Hence, he stuck to his vision. And now he has achieved his vision. Making apple a perfect company. If, he had accepted the decision to go for third party software, just because people were criticizing him. Apple would have reached great heights. And now everybody revere him and his company. Consider the example of Galileo, he was so much criticized by the church for his theory regarding earth. Since, he said earth is not the center but, it is planet revolving around sun. Everybody thought it is a blasphemy. But he didn't back down and proved his theory right. Now everybody know Galileo for his great contribution to the science. When everybody is against you, you feel in a state of despair. It is your believe, your vision and your hard work that can take you through all that criticism. If your vision is not strong enough you will fall prey to the criticism and end up failing in your mind right in the middle of your journey and may not achieve your object I think it is your sheer hard work and belief in yourself that takes you from normal to a expert. As they say genius in 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration