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AWA ESSAYS: Analyze Issues
ESSAY QUESTION:
"Since key personal traits that make a good leader are formed during one’s childhood and youth, formal training can only refine rather than cultivate true leaders.”

Explain what you think this quotation means and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with it. Develop your position with reasons and/or specific examples drawn from history, current events, or your own experience, observations, or reading.

YOUR RESPONSE:
many people think that leadership can be gained by attending some leadership programs or some institute that can instill such quality in an individual.though i wont disagree completely with others,i will rather state and agree to the above given issue that personal traits that make a good leader are formed during one's childhood days and youth , formal training can only refine it.to prove my words i can hereby provide some examples.
this issue is controversial but on the closer examination it reveals that personal traits like good communication , leadership, management to some extent is based right from childhood.
nowadays so many mba colleges run and infact many of them run since 19th century, which provides education in management fields, leadership fields , communication fluency.
from my personal experince in one such key traits that is communication , i can say so. i wasnt given that environment right from my childhood days where i can communicate in a standard way and today inspite of working so much on this key , i have not yet acheived the level i want.
people in america, britain have higher standard because they have been in that scenario right from the moment they stepped in this world. the reading habit inculcated in a child leads one to be more influencive and communicative in one's conversation than a person who never got a chance to do so in childhood days.
i am not saying its not possible. anythng is possible in this world, but it would have been much easier the other way
same goes with leadership. it is something if inculcated in a child from starting then later he just need some polishing and he shines out like a diamond. to prove we can see live examples of Mr. Narayan Murthy ,ceo of infosys. he has been an IIT passed out which is nothing but an engineering college. then he did several other courses none related to leadership or management as some IIM or ISB passed out who is best in management.still he is considered the king of business era who runs his business with all ettiquettes and qualties that is required.
his company is supposed to the most ethical runnning comany in india.
similarly mr vijay mallya who has never attended any formal mba college or learned such key traits by joining any course but today kingfisher his company is running most profitably all over the world

one can gain these qualities but to shine out like a diamond one needs a base from starting.
a child is the best learner . he can learn quite readily whatever he sees, whereever he lives.
and by massaging it more the true traits come out in a postive way.

the saying that a fountain ,to rise high ,needs a broader base is very true. if the base is broad one can work on it as much as one want.the childhood learning acts as a broader base providing higher interface to the better learning.

therefore not disagreeing completely with the fact that anything can be done or achieved , i will say it will be achieved in a better and easier way rather