Principled Leadership in America

Introduction

Leadership which is success oriented and mindful of the people’s welfare should be the one that provides direction and steering change which is beneficial to every person. This implies a leadership with the capacity to make development processes and programs a routine whilst at the same time being reliable and systems. Furthermore, leadership incorporates management practices such as the organization of people and providing alternative solutions to various problems affecting the system. An effective leader should be able to prepare people for change (Bennis, 1989).

Basically, leadership should involve functions and activities that will address issues of policy management such as initiating and setting directions; identifying priorities and mobilizing resources necessary for the process. Furthermore, to encourage participation of the people in overseeing the success of leadership initiated projects, the leadership should be in a position to manage its relations with the external environment including most interest groups (Bogue, 1994).

Furthermore, American future leadership should involve a more principled approach in order to avert a recurrence of the recently experienced economic crisis. Notably, this crisis could have been largely avoided and the turmoil minimized was it not for the high headedness of the leadership at that time. According to literature on a practical and success oriented leadership concepts, it has emerged that, a country as large as the US and with all its wealth needs a vision-oriented leader with the capacity of organizing and directing members of the government as well as the citizens on the direction the country should go as well as the intentions the leadership holds for the country. Equ...

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... just be effective for developing a performing and sustainable governance system. For example, some cultures such as the Japanese concept of harmony, teaches about people living and working together for a common good of their society. This aspect could be very critical to the success of the American leadership because it proposes the practice of people’s moral responsibility towards fellow human beings. This is the sort of leadership element required for the successful implementation of the recently introduced health care reform program (DePree, 1989).

References

References

Bennis, W, (1989), On Becoming a Leader. Addison-Wesley

Bogue, E. G, (1994), Leadership By Design: Strengthening Integrity in Higher Education. Josey-Bass

Covey, S, (1992), Principle Centered Leadership, Simon & Schuster

DePree, M, (1989), Leadership is an Art, Dell Publishing