Leadership Approach

Introduction – Leadership

Leadership is the most evolving phenomenon and there is no single definition that can define leadership at its best. Leadership is the ability to inspire others and influence towards being creative and productive to fulfil the goals of a leader. The leadership is mainly the human perspective of expressing the organization, motivating people to perform jobs and develop a sense of work within them to achieve the long-term goals and expression of visions and defining its objectives. The leader is able to provide meaning to the work, without which everything is meaningless (John, 2013). According to John, leadership is an approach that is able to generate loyalty, respect and demand and is the utmost secret ingredient

Likewise, the ones that are directly involved in organizational matters would want that a piece of action must take place with its various constituents, for example, the customers and clients may also want to participate and involve in the decision-making process. The second reason is that leadership is not a position in a hierarchy but it is an approach of how things can be achieved within an organization in a motivated and inspired manner. In the past, a leader had a formal and a powerful designation within the company as well as in the society, but, today we can say that leadership is not certainly restricted towards CEO’s, presidents of the country, department heads and mayors etc. but every individual can and must lead from time to time and flourish his skills (John, 2013).

The third reason is that, in the upcoming years, we will be able to witness the concept of shared leadership – both within the company as well as the managers and the leaders can relate within their domains. The leaders in the future will not be the only ones who will be found at the top like the lead horses of the company, but also the ones who we can term as the file and rank of the company. Another new approach is the group-centric leadership, where the managers

Various researches have been conducted to study the career and lives of the successful leaders to determine what main traits set a leader apart from others. In the early days, the leadership research illustrated that a leader must be self-confident and have a sense of personal identity; is willing to take responsibility of his decisions as well as willing to accept the consequences of the decisions he make; can take initiatives in situations that require strong decision power, can absorb stress, is tolerable and can handle frustrating situations easily, can influence the behaviors of others, can take work from the team members and consolidate group members. Even though certain traits do help in determining the leadership qualities, the traits itself cannot decide upon the qualities of the leader (Zaccaro,