Another good leadership skill is the ability to compromise. This is an important skill for someone in charge of or leading others. Being diplomatic helps to negotiate favorable terms for both parties in a disagreement. Odysseus makes many compromises and choices throughout The Odyssey. He has to choose between leaving Circe’s island without the half of his men that were turned to pigs, or he could go himself to try and get them back. He has to make a compromise when sailing near Scylla and Charybdis to either lose some men while going closer to Scylla or lose the whole ship when going near Charybdis. Another place where Odysseus has to make a compromise is when Eurylochus and his men are begging him to stop at the island of the sun where Apollo’s