This paper is discussed about are leaders born or made. A lot of discussion and debate over the years about whether leaders are born or made. Some of them claim that leaders are born and there are others claim that leaders are made. Both of the groups able to provide sufficient examples and cases of people who either are born leaders or are made leaders. A leader is a person who influences a group of individuals towards the achievement of a goal and objective. In the other hand, a leader can also define as the person that leads or guides and in charge or in command of others. Leadership can be represented as a process whereby someone influences the thoughts, attitudes and behaviour to achieve an organizational goal. (rodrigo, 2012)
2.0 BORN LEADERS VERSUS MADE LEADERS
A previous research by Center for Creative Leadership with the topic of “Are Leaders Born or Made?” show that Made leaders think what people learn over time is more important to their development than Born leaders. However, born leaders place substantially more importance on traits compare to Made leaders. (William Gentry, March 2012)
Born Leaders can be define as qualities are still with them when they do get involved in areas that they want to devote their time. According to William G. (March, 2012), “Born leader are likely to think that organizations should be very selective in who gets developmental opportunities, offering them only to those the leaders believe are most likely to benefit from them”. However, made leaders are what they learn, grow develop into great leaders through the people they associate with and most important are from their experience. Other than that, leaders are made when they know to comprehend their purpose, their strengths and have a deep enthusiasm to make a difference by living out who they are in the real world. According to David Rooke & William R. Torbert (April, 2005), “Leaders are made, not born, and how they develop is critical for
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