Essays on Geoffrey

Leadership Levels

Effective leadership can be likened to the stock market. Fortunes are not made in a single day; but they are made on a daily basis, bit by bit. The most important thing is what is done day after day, over an extensive pull. For one to be successive in leadership, investment in leadership development is inevitable, (Geoffrey, 2006). The end result of this investment is “Leadership growth” over a period of time. Most scholars argue that leaders are never born; but rather, they are made. According to Philip (2006), greatness is attained through many years of hard work that is very painful ...

Chaucer’s attitude to the Church was ambivalent: it depended on the individual employed by the church. For example, in The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, he displays enormous admiration for the piety and Christian lifestyle of the poor Parson who will do anything for his parishioners. This character is an exception, however. In his portraits of the Monk, the Prioress and the Friar, Chaucer mocks them for their failure to lead a Christian lifestyle, fitting to their role in society. The monk is harmless enough, but is more interested in hunting than in doing God’s work; the ...

The great plague that devastated England in the mid-14th century wiped out entire villages and filled the streets of London with cartloads of bloated corpses. The relevant statistics are difficult to gauge accurately, but estimates are that from a population of about 6 million people in 1300, as many as four million are thought to have died from the outbreak of bubonic plague that hit England in the 1340s (Borsch, 2005). All of Europe was similarly affected, with as much as 45 percent of the continent’s population dying from the Black Death in less than a decade (Borsch). There were ...