To be a good leader, you must have understanding of how the other people in your team live and act. How they get along. I think that is another aspect of maturity also. You have to be understanding. Maturity of the team matters, but it all comes back to maturity of the leader. You need to be able to trust your leader to make mature decisions and know your team well enough so you don't expect impossible things out of them. It's like you're a manager when you're the leader of a team. You have to know your workers. In Brave New World I think that Bernard is a leader in his own kind of way. He hasn't really realized it and he's just rolling with his feelings and not taking soma, but he's very mature and he feels things that others do not feel. Things that make people intrigued by him. When they visit the reservation and see what life was like in our time, he likes the idea of living a life where your emotions aren't processed, and you can feel how ever you want without just taking a soma and forgetting it all. Sometimes people don't understand your actions and I think that's what makes them more powerful. Bernard denying to take the soma is a powerful action. He's choosing something. And I'm not far enough in the book but I feel like it's going to create some sort coup d'état. I mean I'm probably wrong this is just an inference that in the end Bernard is going to create some sort of revolution or something. 
 

The internet and other forms of media in my opinion have already changed how our government runs and how things are advertised. We don't realize how different our lives would be without the internet system we have to look things up and use. People have the ability to say what they want and how they feel over a media where they can be anonymous or just not face to face communication. Our government uses the technology for a good thing of making sure we know information, or that we see certain things. But it's a very powerful tool, and like in my book Brave New World the technology advancements are creating problems and are being used in a negative way to control all the citizens. 

My question is how can we have a good team without mature people. And I think that technology can be used for bad things, and usually the people in charge of the bad things isn't a mature person. It's important for us to be respectful and be good role models for others and if you're immature and post bad things online, then you're not a good leader or role model. I think that people of our world are all in the same boat, same planet thing, and we all are a team. We're put on this earth together and we need to be respectful to each other. Respectfulness somewhat relates back to Brave New World because Lenine and Bernard aren't being respected. Bernard isn't the most attractive or smart and people are rude to him through technology because he was made by technology. He can't help that. So I think that in general technology changes how we see and act towards each other, we can either use that power for good or bad. But bad may have negative consequences. 

I think that this episode didn't necessarily deal with my big question blatantly but it did relate back in a different form. Though it didn't really deal with teamwork or maturity, I think that if you look at it from a different view it does. That would be the leadership aspect of the episode. The chancellor was ruthless and controlling and ruled by intimidation. When you have someone who is so controlling and demanding then you aren't going to have a group of people who respects you and is willing to work with you. In the end being like that will cause your followers to revolt. Maybe that's just my opinion, but I think if you rule in a more democratic style then people will be more willing to look to you for advice and will respect your choices. As a leader if you want your team to be successful you need to listen to their ideas too. The people need to be able to approach you. When Mr. Woodsworth tried to argue his cause and why his life should be spared the chancellor just looked down on him and wasn't respectful. 

There are many reasons that people aren't happy with signing statements. Most of these reasons are because people don't like not being able to know what is going on with the president and what he is vetoing and such. I think that people like to be in control, and when the president can make comments and changes without the knowledge of the American people, everyone finds it sneaky and somewhat communistic. We want leaders we can trust and without that sense of trust nothing is going to get done. 

This also comes back to my big question. My question is 'how can you have a good team without mature people?'   You want to be able to be a collaborative effort together and if you can't work well and if the leader is going behind your back you lose that sense of trust. If you can't be honest with people when you're on a team, how is anyone going to see you as mature and trustworthy? And I believe trust is the main foundation to creating a good team. If you're working with someone else you have to be able to trust them to help you and if you can't do that you won't have a good team because nothing will get done or one person will be doing all the work. 

So in conclusion signing statements and going behind peoples backs can really make others question their loyalty and trust to you. So it's harder to have a good group when the group members don't trust you. Because lack of trust can create a lack of respect and I think all around nothing can work out. So our team can't be a team without a good teamwork and trusting foundation. After you have those things I think then you can work on the maturity of the group to create a stronger team.