Henry Kissinger once said that "The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." No one can deny that the act being a leader is an enormous job and that the best and worst leaders are remembered throughout history. What no one has determined thus far is if leaders are born or made. True leaders might have natural abilities that lend themselves to taking charge over people‚ but some leaders are born out of necessity; they see a situation and take control
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Do you believe that the greatest leaders are born‚ not made? Explain your answer. Some people are natural born leaders‚ nature plays a role. Some people work all their life to become great leaders‚ nurture plays a role. They both have many things in common but the most important one is that they want to be in charge; become leaders and not followers. They all have a vision and need to have a strong belief in their leadership ability. In addition‚ leaders set goals that help them achieve
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Running Head: LEADERSHIP AT WORK Are leaders born or made? MBA 525-Professional Development April 10‚ 2011 The definition of leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. Put in even simpler terms‚ the leader is the inspiration and director of the action. He or she is the person in the group that possesses the combination of personality and skills that makes others want to follow his or her direction (Ward). Which brings us to the most
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John Caldwell Calhoun was born the 4th child‚ and 3rd son‚ of Patrick and Martha Calhoun on March 18‚ 1782 in the backwoods of Abbeville‚ South Carolina. His father got really sick when he was just 17 years old. He was forced to quit school and work on the family farm. Eventually though with help from his brothers‚ he returned to school. He graduated with a degree from Yale College‚ Phi Beta Kappa‚ in 1804. After studying law at the Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield‚ Connecticut‚ he was admitted
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Leaders are born and not made This essay aims to provide a discussion about the statement “leaders are born‚ not made”. According to Stogdill (1950) leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an organised group in its efforts toward goal setting and goal achievement (Buchanan and Huczynski‚ 2010). In any organised field there is the necessity to recognize the distinguished figure of a leader‚ wheter it is the animal kingdom or the human modern society. Businesses and firms (but even
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continues to raise its ugly head: Are leaders born to lead‚ or are they made? Does Leadership DNA exist? We often point to one person or the other and say‚ “Now‚ he’s a leader‚” without giving a lot of thought to how this person became a leader in the first place. Sometimes it is easy to simply conclude that some of us have the leadership gene and some of us do not. Those who do get to lead‚ while those who do not are forever assigned to the sidelines while leaders have all the fun‚ make all the decisions
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developed‚ but leaders are born‚ not made. Table of contents Table of contents ii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 BODY OF ARGUEMENT 1 2.1 THE ROLE OF THE MANAGER 1 2.2 THE ROLE OF THE LEADER 1 2.3 OVERLAP BETWEEN THE ROLES OF MANAGER AND LEADER 2 2.4 CAN THE ROLES OF THE MANAGER AND LEADER BE DEVELOPED? 2 2.5 CAN GREAT LEADERS BE DEVELOPED‚ OR ARE THEY BORN? 3 3 CONCLUSION 4 4 REFERENCES 4 1 INTRODUCTION To debate the statement ‘managers can be developed‚ but leaders are born
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Are Leaders Born or Made? SSI‚ NCOA SFC Luis A. Gutierrez 79S ALC 004-13 SFC Eric L. Crist In our history as the United States Army‚ we have overcome tremendous and various obstacles that have led to defining moments as well as benchmarking what true leadership is and what unity can achieve. In defining unity in the Army history we generally tend to think of cohesion as a mutual alliances among several of Americans serving for a common purpose and as so‚ all due credit is due. Yet
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There has been constant debate on weather leaders are born or are they made. There are leadership theories to support this statement or to disprove this statement. This idea is backed up by the trait theory which says that all good leaders are born with special traits that helps them become a good leader‚ and people with out those traits will not be able to become good leaders. However with the behavioral theories‚ things are focused on what a good leader actually does compared to only focusing on
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that hinders the development of leaders in the work place; the misconception that leadership cannot be developed. This misconception hinders companies’ optimal productivity in the current economic circumstances where change is constant. When one looks at the related literature it is clear that there is general agreement that leadership is something that can indeed be developed. It is‚ however‚ not a case of taking just any person and developing him or her into a leader‚ as personal qualities and characteristics
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