A leader is a person who influences group of people towards the achievement of a goal. Leadership is about influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. Leaders are form various form of influence particularly persuasion and related to tactics that build commitment to ensure that the follower have the motivation and role clarify to achieve specified goals . Leaders also arrange the work environment such as allocating resources and altering communication patterns, so that employees can achieve organizational objectives more easily.
Biography of successful and unsuccessful leaders.
One of successful leader is Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive of Berjaya Corporation Berhad. He was born on 1952. He is from Batu Pahat, Johor. Before him going into business, he worked as clerk and insurance agent in 1980s. He purchased Malaysia’s Macdonald’s franchise and in 1985 he bought Sport Toto when the lottery agency was privatized by the government. He has had close link with Mahathir Mohammad and his family, the ex-prime minister of Malaysia. He also known as an owner of 7-Eleven Franchise in Malaysia, Crispy Crème Franchise Holder, Burger King Malaysian Franchise and UMobile Operator in Malaysia. On 23 February 2012, he retired from an active corporate role in Berjaya Corporation, the flagship of the Berjaya Group of Companies. Now, he is the current owner of Cardiff City F.C, which recently gained promotion to play in the English Premier League. He come from a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
He became success nowadays because he know what it is like not to have a lot of things that the average person these days will take for granted. He therefore considers himself very blessed to be where he is today despite the difficult early days, and ever since he achieved financial success