In my family we always try to keep good relationships with each other. When I was a child my father was trying to satisfy all of our needs and always to be fair to everyone. My father runs a business on his own, so he has a good idea of how to handle and organization. Through my father's eyes our family was always reflected as an "organization" that should be handled from a person that had the skills and abilities to do so; that was my father. .
I have to admit that he was a good leader. For him, leadership is the ability of a person to persuade and influence other people towards the achievement of goals. Both, my brother and I always argued for different things. Conflicts in our family were always solved through conversations. When I was a teenager and I wanted to go out, I always ran to my mother. She was always telling me: " I think it's better to discuss this with your father". Not that my father was the kind of a leader that didn't take into consideration other people's opinion. For example when we had a conflict he always encouraged participation from all of us in the decision making process. .
In other cases, he thought that it was better to allow us to find our own problems and our solutions to them. In other words, I can describe him as a democratic leader.
Through my experience of life, I have learned that we should give people the freedom of decision making. We should all have equal rights, and we should all be given the chance to decide what is best for us. After all, if we make mistakes, we learn from them.
From a young age, my father was giving us the opportunity to express our opinion, especially when there was an argument about something. Even if he knew that what we were about to say was wrong, he led us have a freedom of expressing ourselves and then try to "lead" us to the correct solution. The effectiveness he had on us was unbelievable!.
As I grew older, I wanted to be involved in my father's organization.
