I agree that the statement "Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course,” is a strong notion. The statement aims to open up the minds of leaders and ensure that they have an awareness of many people are depending on them and their ability to lead them (Maxwell, 2007). I do agree with your statement that everyone can guide people to any given destination. However, very few will make it should they fail to carefully plan for the end goals and how to achieve them. I would also like to add that any good leader must draw on past experiences and use them in laying a foundation for the future. Success in the past will motivate you to do better while failure helps you in pointing out various mistakes made and avoid them in the future. Likewise, for a navigator, he/she must listen to what others are saying. They will not come up with decisions made on their beliefs as there is a need to work as a team.
I will also agree with your two examples on a leader who was able to chart the course and another who steered a ship but failed to chart the course. In the case of your example involving Roald Amundsen, carefully planning the Antarctica trip is what led to the success of his team. On the other hand, Robert Falcon Scott is a leader who steered a ship by was not able to navigate the course. He failed to plan out his rip carefully, and his team members grew sick along the way and took more than a month to get it the finish line.
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Your conclusion has perfectly summarized the entire statements by calling on leaders you carefully plan out their decisions instead of having short-sighted goals that will lead to failure.
References
Maxwell, J. C. (2007). The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Thomas Nelson: Nashville, TN.
