Assignment in APA Style
Author Name: Muddassir Zakaria
Affiliation: Institute of Business Management (CBM)
Date: 23/11/2012
What is Leadership
The tools, patterns, behaviors and capabilities needed by a person for being successful while motivating and giving directions to others are exactly what we call leadership skills. (MTD Training)
Lifting of man’s thinking to higher scales, enhancing the standards of man’s performance and development of man’s personality beyond his actual limitations is what people call Leadership (Drucker)
The person under whose influence people attain goals is leader. As the number of followers rise so there is a rise in influence. Actual evident of leadership is the successful attainment of goals and objectives. (Bateman and Snell)
Research and theorizing of around fifty years has concluded only one thing that no proofs are available for the generalization of leadership. (Warren Bennis)
Leadership is one of the main functions of management and it is one of the most pivotal segments of direction. There is a possibility for a leader to not be a manager but there is no room for a manager to not be a leader. He must have leadership qualities. (Asim Siddique)
An abstract or behavioral process of influencing other people and delivering guidance to them is leadership. (Asim Siddique)
The key to successful business is good leadership but at the same time the good and effective leadership is the most precious resource of any business. (Drucker)
Poor leadership is the main cause which leads any business towards failure. (Gloves)
Leadership is the most important topic to be concerned for successful business. (Daft)
Leadership is the collection of actions of person who has managerial authority and who has influencing power. (Robbins)
Leadership is nothing but a process of clouting a group to attain goals and objectives. (Daft)
Leadership is a