“People are likely to accept as a leader only someone who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

Views differ greatly when it comes to the question of whether people are like to accept as a leader only someone who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform. Different people have different viewpoints; however, from my point of view, I strongly agree with the statement and will present my conspicuous and consequential reasons as follows.

The first plain truth, I am presenting here is that to be a leader, knowing how to lead the subordinates is above all, If the subordinates will not obey the leader’s instruction, there must be something wrong with the leadership of the leader. From my personal experience and observation, a leader who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform won the most respect from his subordinates.

In addition, behind my opinion that mentioned in the above paragraph lies that a leader accomplished with the ability to perform the tasks, he might also accomplished with the expert knowledge and be familiar to the difficult part of the whole process. While the subordinates encounter difficulties, such leader has the capability to assist the subordinates solving the problems and help them upgrade the problem-shooting ability. Otherwise, if a leader instruct a task which can be done by even himself; furthermore, he could not help his subordinates to solve problems, consequently he won’t win the respect and might be challenged by his followers.

Admittedly, it might be true that with some practical experience, some leaders with strong academic background can lead a team successfully. However, these cases are rare and consequently cannot provide the persuasive force to the opposite opinions. Accordingly, I agree that people are likely to accept as a leader only someone who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform in most occasions.

In conclusion, due to the above-mentioned reasons, which sometimes correlate to each other to form an organic whole and become more persuasive than any single one of them, we could safely reach the conclusion that people are likely to accept as a leader only someone who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform.