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TOPIC: ISSUE160 - "The most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives. Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little."
WORDS: 564          TIME: 1:03:15          DATE: 2007-2-4

Outline:
1, 一贯的原则和目标能够赢得大众的信任，因为领袖的行为因此会变得predictable & examinable
2. 跟随流行民意的领导无法代表大众的最佳利益
--一来，集体内的大众有时会短视和不理性
--二来，集体内利益分配的声音也会影响流行民意

People group to pursue interest beyond the individual capability but of considerable share if achieved by collaboration of many people. Leadership is the art to direct, coordinate and organize such collaboration so that maximum interest is realized with the limited resource. In my view, the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives is essential to effectively and efficiently direct, coordinate and organize the collaboration for several reasons.

Firstly, only leaders who are consistently committed to particular principles and objectives can be most trusted by the members under leadership. As people form groups or community in order to pursue common interest, they selected leaders who must has interest in line with the community interest as a whole. However, leaders as agents in a dominant position, they tend to deviate from the public interest without too much constraint. Thus, an effective leader must be highly trusted by the members leaded.  On one hand, with consistent commitment to particular principles and objectives, the behavior of leaders is predictable. The predictability of leader’s behavior under various circumstances reduces the public sense of uncertainty and hence helps improve trust to the leader. One the other hand, the well recognized objectives commitment and observed consistent principles make the leaders’ behavior and working outgrowth examinable. With clear objectives commitment, there would be more objective and hence cogent approaches to assess the performance as leader. And a leader with consistently committed principles is more likely to be identified in malpractice or power abuse, with which as a pre-knowledge it, to some extent, prevent malpractice and appropriation itself. Therefore, the consistent commitment effectively builds the credit of leaders and help eliminate obstruct, misgiving, hesitance when leaders exercise power and perform obligation.

Nevertheless, a leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shits in popular opinion is not qualified as a leader representing the best common interest. Firstly, shifts in popular opinion sometimes reflect the shortsighted and emotional weakness of ordinary people. Researches in human behavior suggest that people sometimes are governed by the emotional impulse and become irrational. And people tend to observe other people's action and have similar reaction instead of self cognition, which is named as Herding Effect. To illustrate, while rumor about bank bankruptcy, people in panic rush to branches to withdraw all their money, which can actual turn a perfectly healthy bank into bankruptcy. Therefore people would prefer to have a farseeing leader on behalf of their best interest rather than their prevailing opinion. In addition, given the gained interest available for the community to share, the distribution may depend on the decision of leaders. However, the relative status and influence of the sub-groups within the community under leadership may vary wildly from time to time, causing the some corresponding popular opinions to fluctuate as well. To ensure the long term interest for the community, which requires just distribution and decisions independent of the prevalent opinion related to interest allocation, leaders should be detached and sometimes disregard to the popular opinion so as to represent the best interest of the community.

In sum, consistent commitment to particular principles and objectives is a strength, and to some extent necessity, to effective leader. And the opposite, a stand highly dependent on popular opinion is a weakness for leaders to accomplish recognized public interest. They combine to suggest that the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives is the most essential quality for accomplished leader.

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People group to pursue interest beyond the individual capability but of considerable share if achieved by collaboration of many people. Leadership is the art to direct, coordinate and organize such collaboration so that maximum interest is realized with the limited resource. In my view, the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives is essential to effectively and efficiently direct, coordinate and organize the collaboration for several reasons.

Firstly, only leaders who are consistently committed to particular principles and objectives can be most trusted by the members under leadership. As people form (in) groups or community (communities) in order to pursue common interest, they selected leaders who must has interest in line with the community interest as a whole. However, leaders as agents in a dominant position, they tend to deviate from the public interest without too much constraint. Thus, an effective leader must be highly trusted by the members leaded.  On one hand, with consistent commitment to particular principles and objectives, the behavior of leaders is predictable. The predictability of leader’s behavior under various circumstances reduces the public sense of uncertainty and hence helps improve trust to the leader. One (On) the other hand, the well recognized objectives commitment and observed consistent principles make the leaders’ behavior and working outgrowth examinable. With clear objectives commitment, there would be more objective and hence cogent approaches to assess the performance as leader. And a leader with consistently committed principles is more likely to be identified in malpractice or power abuse, with which as a pre-knowledge it, to some extent, prevent malpractice and appropriation itself. Therefore, the consistent commitment effectively builds the credit of leaders and help eliminate obstruct, misgiving, hesitance when leaders exercise power and perform obligation. 感觉这一段中间部分的论述部分有点乱，虽然分了两个方面但是应该没有例子，感觉说来说去都是一个意思。如果有例子的支撑会好很多。

Nevertheless, a leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shits (???!!!!) in popular opinion is not qualified as a leader representing the best common interest. Firstly, shifts in popular opinion sometimes reflect the shortsighted and emotional weakness of ordinary people. Researches in human behavior suggest that people sometimes are governed by the emotional impulse and become irrational. And people tend to observe other people's action and have similar reaction instead of (without) self cognition, which is named as Herding Effect. To illustrate, while rumor about bank bankruptcy, people in panic rush to branches to withdraw all their money, which can actual turn a perfectly healthy bank into bankruptcy. Therefore people would prefer to have a farseeing leader on behalf of their best interest rather than their prevailing opinion. In addition, given the gained interest (这个词用的真是太多了……) available for the community to share, the distribution may depend on the decision of leaders. However, the relative status and influence of the sub-groups within the community under leadership may vary wildly from time to time, causing the some corresponding popular opinions to fluctuate as well. To ensure the long term interest (benefits) for the community, which requires just distribution and decisions independent of the prevalent opinion related to interest allocation, leaders should be detached and sometimes disregard to the popular opinion so as to represent the best interest of the community.

In sum, consistent commitment to particular principles and objectives is a strength, and to some extent necessity, to effective leader. And the opposite, a stand highly dependent on popular opinion is a weakness for leaders to accomplish recognized public interest. They combine to suggest that the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives is the most essential quality for accomplished leader.
整篇文章感觉说的过于肯定，难道坚持自己的意见和原则就一点坏处没有吗？可以由此发展一段，使文章成为五段文。