What is leadership? Leadership – The activity of leading a group of people in an organization or the ability to do this. In its, essence leadership in an organization role involve.
* Establishing a clear vision. * Sharing that vision with others so that they will follow willingly. * Proving the information, knowledge and method to realize that vision. * Coordinating and balancing the conflicting interest of all members.
A leader comes to the forefront in case of crisis, and is able to think and act in creative ways in difficult situations. Unlike management, leadership flows from the core of personality and cannot be taught, although it may be learn through coaching or mentoring.
I will present some various examples of the definitions of leaderships by famous scholars below.
"Leaders are individuals who establish direction for a working group of individuals who gain commitment form these group of members to this direction and who then motivate these members to achieve the direction 's outcomes.” - Conger, J.A. ‘Learning to Lead’ San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (1992, p18)
"Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.” - Bennis, W. ‘On Becoming a Leader’ Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, (1989, p.139)
"Leadership is a development of a clear and complete system of expectations in order to identify evoke and use the strengths of all resources in the organization the most important of which is people.”- Batten, J.D. ‘Tough-minded Leadership’ New York: AMACOM (1989 p. 35)
(Even in ancient times the concept of leadership already exists.)
The superior leader gets things done with very little motion. He
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