Traditional Leadership Vs Servant Leadership

What makes a leader? Is a leader a person that gives out commands and expect everyone to do them; or is a leader a person that you can look up to in a time of need and able to lead the group into the right path. Being a leader consists of teamwork, engagement, listening skills, cognizant of what an organization needs, and able to produce quality work out those who they are leading. A leader is a person who makes decisions for the right reasons and not to just justify their own selfish needs and point the finger out another person when something goes wrong. There are many different types of leadership. There is the leadership where you are a servant leader versus the traditional leader who rules with an iron fist. Although it may be times where in servant leadership that you take upon yourself to be a little …show more content…
Traditional leadership qualities consists of want to primarily lead, to have command and control, focused on finances and not worried about those who that they lead if they are going to grow in the organization or not. (Dye, 2010, p.81). A traditional leader is a person who believes in doing a specific procedure the same exact way without changing any order and that it has to be constantly repetitious. “Many traditional leaders effectively transformed themselves from custodians of their people into custodians of the colonial order. This not only eroded their support base, but also overemphasized their coercive functions……The basis of any traditional leader’s authority; it is this characteristic which differentiates traditional leaders from all other leaders in any society”. (Keulder, n.d., p.2) As you can see that a traditional leader is a person that is more worried about mainly their organization and not the people who are working for the organization. It’s nothing wrong with being about the organization constantly but you want to be concern about the employees