Importance of Leadership in Achieving Organizational Goals

In today’s corporate world organizations must try to have a competitive advantage against other organizations. The advantage could be a technological advantage, or a product that the competitors do not possess, or anything that will give the organization and advantage against their competitors. Another competitive advantage that an organization could have could be the motivation and leadership that the employees have, which will help the organizations achieve its goals and improve the aspects that make the organization fail to accomplish it goals. When employees possess theses two aspects they could help the organization to succeed in many ways, yet to understand how these two aspects could help the organization we must know what they are and how can we promote them within the organization.

Leadership is defined as “influencing individual and group activities toward goal achievement“. Hersey, Blanchard, and Johnson (2007). and motivation is “willingness to work to achieve the organization’s objectives” Hersey et al.’s(2007). These two concepts go together and are extremely important for an organization to achieve their goals. When an organization has employees that are leaders and that are motivated; it could be a competitive advantage against competitors. “Leaders impact our daily lives and futures. In good times and bad, there is always a need for strong leadership. The success of a business or an industry is determined by the leaders it chooses or inherits.” Winterton (2002)

Extensive research has been conducted on leadership for many years, but there has not been proof of origin of leadership or how to obtain it; while many think that people are born with characteristics and skills that make that specific person a success...

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...sful employees that will be happy and motivated to work and be part of that specific organization, which know in days is hard to maintain.

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