Leadership

Leadership

Introduction

Leadership is a quality that comes to a person, through experience as (Northouse, 2004) stated. All it takes to be an exemplary leader, is the desire and his willpower, these are the two major qualities that all leaders should possess, in order to become a successful and effective leader. It is the habit of an exemplary leader he never stops learning from his experiences and along with that conduct self-study, to enlighten him-self.

“A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way, he steadily raises his level of aspiration.”

Discussion

“There are three simple steps to become a great leader; a great leader always has a clear vision and strategy regarding his and his organizations future he communicates effectively and efficiently with the people working alongside him, it is his major quality that he constantly motivates his workers.”

Following are the qualities that an exemplary leader (Kotter, 1996) should constitute.

Great leaders are always determined by their vision towards the future, and then devise an appropriate strategy in order to gain success.

Great leaders are never afraid of failures; he always considers it as a challenge and takes the experience from it, so that if next time such situation comes he would know, how to tackle that situation and avoid such failure again (Grove, 1996).

A good leader with a clear vision of future never aims high he sets small goals for himself and then works on those goals he precedes towards his objective, in a premeditated and plodding manner (Grove, 1996).

A prominent leader always encourages the people working along with him, because, after leader, they are the ones on whose shoulders the fate of the organization is lying.

Another quality that an exemplary leader should possess is effective communication along with his workers, which he has selected after an elongated and thoughtful process.

Pitfalls of leadership

Power hungry

An exemplary leader should never become too hungry for power, because the hunger of power makes him force his employees to work against their capability, and in some cases they even get frustrated and resign which leaves a massive hole and damages the work flow of the organization.

Not delegating the responsibility

Do not become too critical or harsh over your workers, an exemplary leader always empowers his workers and motivates them, even if they make mistakes. A person only learns by committing mistakes no one is perfect. An exemplary leader ...