wat is Leadership?how 2 be a good Leader?

Answer 1

Main Entry: lead·er·ship
Pronunciation: 'lE-d&r-"ship
Function: noun
1 : the office or position of a leader
2 : capacity to lead
3 : the act or an instance of leading
4 : LEADERS

The word leadership can refer to:

the process of leading
the concept of leading
those entities that perform one or more acts of leading.
The various meanings can lead to some confusion.

For a more detailed explanation on what is leadership, refer to the sources I have provided.

How to be a good leader?
Determining what makes effective "leadership"
In comparing various leadership styles in many cultures, academic studies have examined the patterns in which leadership emerges and then fades, sometimes by natural succession according to established rules and sometimes by the imposition of brute force.

The simplest way to measure the effectiveness of leadership involves evaluating the size of the following that the leader can muster. By this standard, Adolf Hitler became a very effective leader for a period — even if through delusional promises and coercive techniques. [7] However, this approach may measure power rather than leadership. To measure leadership more specifically, one may assess the extent of influence on the followers, that is, the amount of leading. This may involve testing the results of leadership activities against a goal, vision, or objective.

James MacGregor Burns introduced a normative element: an effective Burnsian leader will unite followers in a shared vision that will improve an organization and society at large. Burns calls leadership that delivers "true" value, integrity, and trust transformational leadership. He distinguishes such leadership from "mere" transactional leadership that builds power by doing whatever will get more followers. [8] But problems arise in quantifying the transformational quality of leadership - evaluation of that quality seems more difficult to quantify than merely counting the followers that the straw man of transactional leadership James MacGregor Burns has set as a primary standard for effectiveness. Thus transformational leadership requires an evaluation of quality, independent of the market demand that exhibits in the number of followers.

The functional leadership model conceives leadership as a set of behaviours that helps a group perform a task, reach their goal, or perform their function. In this model, effective leaders encourage functional behaviors and discourage dysfunctional ones.

In the path-goal model of leadership, developed jointly by Martin Evans and Robert House and based on the "Expectancy Theory of Motivation", a leader has the function of clearing the path toward the goal(s) of the group, by meeting the needs of subordinates.

Some commentators use the metaphor of an orchestral conductor to describe the quality of the leadership process. An effective leader resembles an orchestra conductor in some ways. He/she has to somehow get a group of potentially diverse and talented people - many of whom have strong personalities - to work together toward a common output. Will the conductor harness and blend all the gifts his or her players possess? Will the players accept the degree of creative expression they have? Will the audience enjoy the sound they make? The conductor may have a clear determining influence on all of these questions.

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Suggested qualities of leadership
Studies of leadership have suggested qualities that people often associate with leadership. They include:

Guiding others through modelling (in the sense of providing a role model) and through willingness to serve others first (compare followership)
Talent and technical/specific skill at some task at hand
Initiative and entrepreneurial drive
Charismatic inspiration - attractiveness to others and the ability to leverage this esteem to motivate others
Preoccupation with a rôle - a dedication that consumes much of leaders' life - service to a cause
A clear sense of purpose (or mission) - clear goals - focus - commitment
Results-orientation - directing every action towards a mission - prioritizing activities to spend time where results most accrue
Optimism - very few pessimists become leaders
Rejection of determinism - belief in one's ability to "make a difference"
Ability to encourage and nurture those that report to them - delegate in such a way as people will grow
Role models - leaders may adopt a persona that encapsulates their mission and lead by example
Self-knowledge (in non-bureaucratic structures)
Self-awareness - the ability to "lead" (as it were) one's own self prior to leading other selves similarly
With regards to people and to projects, the ability to choose winners - recognizing that, unlike with skills, one cannot (in general) teach attitude. Note that "picking winners" ("choosing winners") carries implications of gamblers' luck as well as of the capacity to take risks, but "true" leaders, like gamblers but unlike "false" leaders, base their decisions on realistic insight (and usually on many other factors partially derived from "real" wisdom).
Understanding what others say, rather than listening to how they say things - this could partly sum this quality up as "walking in someone else's shoes" (to use a common cliché).

8 'Rules' to be a good leader by Jack Welch, 21 yr CEO of General Electric and mentor to a generation of CEOs.
#1 LEADERS RELENTLESSLY UPGRADE THEIR TEAM, USING EVERY ENCOUNTER AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE, COACH AND BUILD SELF-CONFIDENCE.

#2 LEADERS MAKE SURE PEOPLE NOT ONLY SEE THE VISION, THEY LIVE AND BREATHE IT.

#3 LEADERS GET INTO EVERYONE'S SKIN, EXUDING POSITIVE ENERGY AND OPTIMISM.

#4 LEADERS ESTABLISH TRUST WITH CANDOR, TRANSPARENCY AND CREDIT.

#5 LEADERS HAVE THE COURAGE TO MAKE UNPOPULAR DECISIONS AND GUT CALLS.

#6 LEADERS PROBE AND PUSH WITH A CURIOSITY THAT BORDERS ON SKEPTICISM, MAKING SURE THEIR QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED WITH ACTION.

#7 LEADERS INSPIRE RISK TAKING AND LEARNING BY SETTING THE EXAMPLE.

#8 LEADERS CELEBRATE.

Answer 2

Personally, I feel that leadership is tha ability to lead a group of followers. It is never easy to be a good leader. As a leader, you have to be fair to all your followers. Some followers are not as active or hardworksing as the others. But you must make sure thetreatment to each individual is fair. For workers who is hardworking, they deserved more reward than those who are not so hardworking.
Good leader must not be biased. If the leader is being biased towards anyone, the follower will never a a fair treatment. he will always be penalised for minor error that he/she made. This will demoralised the worker morale.
The leader must always to listen to the concern of the followers. He/She have to take actions that benefit to the organistion and not benefit to one person while no benefit to others.
So to be a good leader is not easy as most of us cannot be fair or unbiased to others.

Answer 3

Leadership is the ability to convey a vision and path to reach it along with the ability to motivate others to work in that direction.

Answer 4

Leadership is to have 'POWER OF INFLUENCE' especially 'reference power'.Just like Lee Kuan Yew.

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Answer 5

A Leader does not need to be pushed to "step out" first, and is willing to take the consequences of his/her actions.

Answer 6

b

Answer 7

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