Machiavelli's Failure Of A Successful Leader

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In my opinion, Machiavelli was on the right track of how a leader should be; but my ideas on how things should be run differ a bit. A political leader should be virtuous yet still lead effectively, there has to be a balance; they have to keep in mind their citizens needs. A leader, to me, should be someone who cares about the people they are ruling over, know what they are doing, and effectively do their job. Power and success are important things of course, but being powerful isn’t always necessarily successful. However, to be successful and effective, you would need at least a small balance of virtue to get to that success. Political leaders cannot be expected to be pure virtuous beings, they are still human, but they still have to remember that with their power, they have an example to set. For example, most children are told when they are young they can do anything, like be president, so those young minds are looking up to that political leader. If all that matters to a leader is power, they will turn into a tyrant, which in my opinion is a failure of a leader. …show more content…
An effective leader has a balance of virtue and success in their profession. Leaders without virtue would not be as or at all successful since they would not have the public appeal or morals to gain trust of the people. Although this is just my opinion, and there is definite room for disagreement. Conclusively, my ideas on political leadership are in a way similar to Machiavelli’s, yet I feel like we are not on the same page
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