The Daily Dick: A Study in Leadership
"His [Queequeg's] countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils." Study: Melville admires certain people and sets them up as leaders in the book. Queequeg is one of those men who is most admired. Some leadership skills
The Daily Dick: A Study in Leadership
"He [Peter Coffin] did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." Study: Although the last half of this quote is
The Daily Dick: A Study in Leadership
"For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it." The Study: Ishmael introduces his ideas o
The Daily Dick: A Study in Leadership
From Loomings: "The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,—what will compare with it? " The Study: With all the talk about Trump being linked to Ahab, I thought a study into the leadership theme in Moby-Dick was warranted. Moby-Dick begins by making a big deal about the difference being people who are paid and people who pay. Ishmael is paid. He is a worker-bee. This seems very important for us
