Writing Assignment #4

Chapter 6

As a leader of the baseball team, I often make a personal sacrifice for the team. Yesterday, to prepare today's baseball game, I went to ground and flattened the batter's box and the pitcher's mound. Usually, this kind of preparation is done by all members, but yesterday, since all other members had class or something and only those who were free was me, I'd done alone.

But I don't think this is sacrifice. This is because, as I already mentioned in the previous task, I am one of the members of the team. So this action is only not for the benefit of the team but also for myself. Due to this action, I was able to have more time today's morning. I think that what is important for leaders is not to think "I do this for the team, everybody in the team should thank me" but to think "if I do this, everybody including me will feel comfortable."

Of course to be a leader, having authority is important, because without that, nobody listen to me. Sometimes leaders need dignity. But more important thing is I think to have mind which make it possible to think that serving for the team is one of leader's duty and happiness. This makes the common pleasure among the team much bigger when we achieve something. That is, a special pleasure as a leader.

To "retain authority while maintaining a sense of equity (94)" is quite hard but very important. According to the author, in order to achieve this, Shackleton apologized when he was wrong. So firstly I'm going to imitate him and want to be a better leader.

We have only 3 games to go, if possible, I want to win all the games. And this is one of my duties...even though it's very tough...

Yasu