While reading the excerpt I too agreed that trust is the central issue in human relationships inside and outside of organizations. I believe in this statement because two years ago when I was part of a club, many individuals in the group disliked how our leader was making decisions and coming up with ideas that it led to everyone in the group not agreeing on one accord. So in consequence with all the disagreements, many people in within the club began to have little trust in our leader fearing she would turn her back on the group. This was a big mistake because not only did it break the group up, but it led to inappropriate behaviors that were unacceptable because everyone disliked what was going on and did not have trust within one another. Just as the excerpt stated “because they can’t bear to be dependent on the words and work of others…”[they] supervise work so closely that they become over controlling.” And that is exactly what happened in the club I was in because our group leader began to be controlling and evil towards the group. I believe if everyone put their differences aside majority of the members could have clarified their problems and identified an alternative scenario so that everyone could agree on the same thing. It is always best to have trust within people especially within a workforce. Being around individuals who do not trust each other causes an unstable environment and unbalanced team crew. After being in a situation where there was no trust, I learned from that experience and positioned myself to be around a more decent group of people who were trustworthy and dependent. After being elected president for yearbook in my senior year of high school, I adapted ways from my past to manage a calm, easy going organization where trust was the key factor. Having numerous personalities with various people was challenging to direct because there were issues that were not agreed on that caused confrontation. Being the leader I did not want to see another episode of trust going down the drain. It was stated in the excerpt that; “the leaders behavior is more critical than that of any other person determining the level of trust that develops in a group.” I agree with this statement because followers look up to their leaders as an influence of their own actions, as well as guidance in their work field. So if I was to lie and hide the truth from my acquaintances, more than likely they are going to do it also. Therefore when my yearbook committee began to have confrontations, it was up to me as the leader to state the honest opinion to clear the air of negativity. After I broke the ice everyone began opening how they felt on the situation and we slowly began resolving our issue and also began forming a trustworthy foundation.

¢  After the class discussion in class, I polished my understanding of ethics. As defined in class ethics is stated to be “Social rules that govern and limit our conduct, especially the ultimate rules concerning right and wrong. “ I have learned to polish my ethics more widely. For example, I use my schooling, family, religion and experiences to shape my ethics. Being spiritually close to god assists me to be a good leader to other individuals. I learned that by knowing right from wrong increases my chances of reaching out and influencing other to people to follow in my footsteps because god wants his children to resist from cruelty. Also I am shaping my ethics from my family because they are by my side constantly through all my troubles and hardships and push me to continue moving forward. They give me the responsibilities to be mature and handle situations on my own to be a young adult. This correlates with ethics because I am learning self-discipline. I have experienced be being around unethical people that have slightly drove me away from my own ethic beliefs. For example, I was influenced by stealing merchandise from a store which is highly unethical to me because my morals is to serve god and walk in his pathway and by breaking one of the commandments I felt angry with myself because I easily let another person pull me away from my ethics and morals into doing something I was forbidden not to do. After reviewing in class it is not ok to let someone influence into doing something unethical because they are doing it also made me realize I need to strengthen my ethics stronger.  i have always been told the golden rule by my grandfather, but I did not fully understand what he was talking about, but now as I get much older and wiser from past experiences I come to understand how Important the golden rule is. The golden is to be defined as; “Do what you would want others to do to you.” I find this saying very true because from past experiences I have found that wanting respect and appreciation is only returned if I extend it out to others as well. For example, I have always found being respectful to my enemies very challenging. But one day I showed appreciation and gave respect to one of them only to generous and shortly after a couple of more of the same practice to that person, I found myself receiving the same action done towards me. That is why I truly believe that by treating others the way you want to be treated is very true due to my past experiences with the situation. To this day I treat everyone the same respect that I would want to be treated because it is pleasing to me and that person also. I have also found that the rules ethics is an ethic that I tend to follow by. Rules ethics is stated to be, “Do what you would want everyone else in the world to do from now on in this situation.” I believe if we treat everyone the same way that we would like to be treated could lead to peace in the world because everyone is following into the same trend of generosity.

After reviewing the excerpt from Ms. Peggy, my views on that article we content and a bit frustrating. I felt it was irrelevant because I believe everyone is born with different privileges that we did not request. Peggy insisted temporary equal-ness within everyone to exemplify unity but, we obtain certain honors due to the choice of God. I do understand that there are issues everyone attains that we are not proud about, but I believe by confidence and humbleness we all can make way through our flaws. For instance, there is a large number of homeless individuals in the world, and I believe it is not a privilege and choice for them to be without homes, but they were set in those positions and they have to make way through their struggles and tribulations day by day because it is their lifestyle until they make a change for themselves. I agree with this quote from class stating “Horatio Alger in the mid-20^th century said that all men were equal, but some just worked harder than others and that is why they were better off.  If other people worked as hard, they would be well off too.” I believe this is true because men set their selves apart to obtain the dominance that they have now, I believe that everyone should act in this way if they do not respect their privileges. For instance with the homeless, no one in this world can fore take and solve our issues that we have  but ourselves, and either we have to accept it or not but if so they have to make self- change if they are unhappy with the privileges they attain. But in class I did comprehend a different aspect towards people and their privileges. I interpreted that by holding your own identity is a privilege towards yourself. For an example, by me being a young African-American female I have numerous privileges for holding this aspect because there are other individuals in this world who wish to hold the titles that can have and obtain. Privileges are related to hard work because where we stand is from the success or failure we had in the past.  It is how we approach our situations in life to be where or how we want to be in life. “Some overcome barriers created by oppression and succeed through hard work. [Pursuit of Happiness].””Some cannot overcome barriers created by oppression no matter how hard they work.” I believe this quote is where everyone either gives up or push through trials because once again it is up to us to have a great future, or to have a decent or horrible one. But regardless of my interpretations from the excerpt, class discussion and life experiences I do have a better view about privileges we hold in life.

After reading Diversity is Transforming Leadership my views on leaders from different cultures open more because the excerpt helped me understand that by having different leaders from a diverse culture helps widen unalike leadership styles to follow. Recalling from the text when they explained “shaping leadership into a multicultural form” I believe that is true and she be expected because it I time where we see our nation have different skin tones within a business or organization because it expands the association 10 times more than it was before. The excerpt defined multicultural leadership as “an inclusive approach and philosophy that incorporates the influences, practices, and values of diverse cultures in a respectful and productive manner. Multicultural leadership resonates with many cultures and encourages diverse people to actively engage, contribute, and tap their potential.” My middle school played along with this definition by expanding other culture customs. For an example of how diversity is good for leadership was when I was in high school and our ASB committee was general composed of Caucasians and Philippines. The school felt certain races were left out when events came around because they did input any other race opinions. So the school voluntarily cast votes for additional staff on the ASB board to make it more diverse so that all voices and opinions from different background were heard. This also led to a new diverse leadership because the school soon began doing traditions from Mexican American, to African-American backgrounds by following in their cultural traditions. For instance also, we followed our leader’s tradition celebrating Dead Day from the Mexican background and celebrating Kwanza from the African-American background. This not only shaped and diverse our school but also taught the school different traditions from outside cultures they did not know of and brought unity within one another because everyone enjoyed celebrating the events together. Without unity and acceptance from different cultures will only lead our vision of unity to destruction. “The discrepancy between the vision of democracy and the reality of racial and cultural segregation has caused a continuing tension in U.S. society.” I believe this quote is very true because if no one is coming together as a whole from different backgrounds then that can lead to separation and hate between each other. For example, Whites and Blacks did not meet eye to eye because they viewed the opposite race inferior. There was separation for the two races to dine in and eat and also join together in classrooms. This battle between the two lasted for over a decade and caused tension in the U.S. but activist leaders seen differently that both races can and will soon be together as one positively motivating the nation. And soon with laws formed and races soon reconciling their differences, the United States soon came together by the influences of different leaders. In an ending result I am a supporter of believing that diversity can and do cause transformation just by past experiences and well known political uprisings.