We often hear of a comment that “he or she
is a born leader. We find certain characteristic in same people that seem
to naturally put them in a position where they are looked up to as a
leader. However, whether a person in fact is born a leader or develops
skills and abilities to become a leader is open for debate. There
are some characteristics that are found in good leaders. These
qualities can be developed or may be naturally part of the
personality.
A good leader is crucial for any government, business or
organization. Qualities of good leader and leadership abilities are
essential to achieve the desired goals. Different strategies and
leadership styles are used to achieve the desired goals of organization.
A leader or executive guides its subordinates to achieve the goals in a
specific direction and in a particular time frame.
Good leaders are those who are of exemplary character. They “talk the
talk and walk the talk” and in doing so earns the right to have responsibility
for others. A leader’s character should possess and manifests virtues
such as honesty, kindness, generosity and fairness. A leader should be a
person of integrity, posse’s motivation skills, communication skills and also
should be courageous enough to shoulder the responsibility in case of the any
failures of his team in certain endeavor.
Only because of these leadership qualities, people like Martin Luther King,
Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Obama, Abdul Khalam, Modi and many others could
bring about great success to the movements and the crisis of their
time and brought peace and good to the mankind by ending injustice,
inequalities, suppression, restlessness in the
society.
On reading the autobiographies of the great
leaders, what we understand is that the leader is a person who works not for
fame but works for the upliftment and welfare of the people by sacrificing
their personal life. If we take the life of Nelson Mandela, he was firm
in Ideology and never compromised with his principles. He sacrificed his
life for his Nation and was in jail for 27 years. He focused throwing out
the legacy of apartheid by ending racism, poverty, inequality and on improving
racial understanding in South Africa. Mr. Gandhi fought for peace and
non-violence. He died trying to free his country from foreign
interference. He is a great person who by his efforts made the Britishers
leaves India. Martin Luther fought for the dignity of Black and the poor
people. He helped people struggling to make a living. He made the
Americans realize that black people and white people are of equal rank and
should respect and love each other no matter what skin, colour or religion a
person is.
These are the people who had deep human
qualities and serving nature in them due to which, they could make the world a
better place to live in. Inspired by the leadership qualities of these
people, the new generation leaders like Obama and Narendra Modi have come up
and are tremendously performing well with Governments they are leading.
Hence, I would say that a person to be a leader should have deep human
qualities and a concept of serving others. Any person with these
qualities can change any Society, Organization, a group and the people within
it for the common good. So with the seeds that these great leaders have
sown, let’s begin the change with each one of us at home, College, work place
and so on.
References :
1) http://www.saching.com/Article/qualities
2) http://www.studymode.com/essays/good
leaders - 1569595.html
3)http://www.buzzle.com/articles/qualities
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