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In order for any company to improve their business effectively and efficiently, workers must be under the correct guidance in order to progress. However, every company must have a designated leader to help guide the company in the right direction. There are several characteristics that make a leader great with some weighing more than others. For example, a leader's ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers is more important than having sound moral judgement. A leader wanting respect towards his/her peers has detrimental effects to the progression of the group. Without showing respect to your peers, you are inherently causing a severe lack of communication because you won't consider what any other person's opinion may be. If CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, had no respect for the people who worked for him, Amazon would be far from being one of the top selling websites in the country. Proper communication aids in creating further progress which positively affects all workers. Moreover, not only will respect create better communication between peers, it will also create a mutual respect between the peers and their leader. "I'll respect you, if you respect me" can not be more relevant to circumstances between a leader and their peers in society today. With hot topics such as feminism and racism, society has now more than ever considered respect a crucial fundamental aspect of any individual. Only when one feels as they are being respected, especially by their leader as being someone greatly admired, will they then show their respect towards that individual. Aside from maintaining respect to one's peers, as a leader, maintaining a general sense of morality is also needed. Without having a common sense of morality, a leader will not discern what may be accepted. However, if a leader emphasizes more on the perception of morality and doesn't emphasize the need for respect, then how would one react to someone from their peers with different morals as them? Without having the fundamental quality of respect, your conspicuous actions against those with opposing opinions of you will cause negative effects on your image as a person, especially as a leader. Nonetheless, when you show respect to someone, you inherently respect everything about them--including their morals regardless of what they are. Ultimately, a leader's ability to maintain respect for his or her peers should be emphasized more than having a good sense of moral judgement.

So I am using Magoosh for my GRE prep and I just wrote my first essay and since the portal itself won't grade it, I was wondering if any of you good samaritans will take on the job. Please keep in mind that this is my first essay and I am still working on time management and thus couldn't find the time for a final edit. So please go a little easy on me peeps. Leaders are the mirrors which reflect the society they represent. Thus, a society with good morals is inclined to select a leader with good morals. However, it is imperative that a leader does not let his morality to be extrapolated as the morality of the whole nation and thus respect the wishes of his peers and subject. Thus, respecting peers should take up a higher preference than moral judgement. Morality is nuanced and reaching a strict definition can be very hard to achieve . Thus, a good leader should understand that his view of morality might collide with someone else's and should make it his utmost priority to make sure that the decisions being undertaken justify morality of 'many' and not 'the one.' Historical instances where leaders have assumed the role of rulers have bore sour fruits, as is made evident by the likes of Stalin and the infamous Hitler himself. Thus, respecting peers and the ones being lead must be of the utmost importance to a sound leader. Freedom of expression and extending by the same branch -free speech, is the pillar over which great nations thrive, and while the concept may seem a burden to be bore by light shoulders, great leaders have never run away from the responsibility. Individuality, achieved through respecting different opinions, even if they oppose your ideology keeps a check on power and makes sure absolute power does not corrupt revolutionary thinkers. Moreover, a leader who tends to neglect the needs of his subjects ends up with a shortage of opinions and a single dimensional view on issues, thus making decisions that are inclined to serve his own morality and consequently, lead to destabilization of fabric of the entire nation. However on the other hand, respecting the wishes of everyone can be a heinous task and can lead to delay in decisions. Moreover, in a society that is inherently disturbed, the majority might hold an opinion that is morally disturbing, and in cases like those, leaders have to assume command to lead their subjects down the right path to maintain the sanctity of humanity. To summarise, respecting peers should be a little higher on the agenda for a leader than sound moral judgement as morality can not be defined easily and it is beneficial to go by the masses.