In today's world a leader has a lot of issues to deal with in an organization or in an organized group of individuals. The two major issues that arise in an organized group are task and process issues. What is leadership?" Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an organized group in its effort toward goal setting and goal achievement."(Stodgill 1950) (Huczynski and Buchanan 2007).In other words the leader is a person who influences others to achieve a goal, and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent.
A lot of people tend to explain leadership in a very easy way so that the individuals around them have the motivation in wanting to become leaders but it's easily said than done as leadership is difficult to practice as it involves a lot of hard work and determination. A lot of factors are related to leadership but the two most important factors are behavior and skills.
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English: Center for Creative Leadership, Colorado ...Moreover these are the two most important factors but there are other factors which are needed to become an effective leader. To be an effective leader, he or she certainly has to manage the resources that are available to them and to make the group of individuals like the work that they are doing. Leadership varies in different types of groups depending on who the leader is and individual perceptions.
Are leaders born with leadership skills or are they made? While there are people who seem to be born more naturally to leadership than others, I personally believe that most individuals do not seek to be leaders; but those who want to be leaders can develop leadership skills.
Nowadays it seems that a lot of people seem to think that Management and leadership are the same. But one...