Leader is one who takes everyone along with him to achieve a common goal. Leadership skills are more essential to lead a group of people by motivating them with different set of skills according to the situations which arise due to changed conditions.
Strategic Leader always envisages the future, plan accordingly and communicates it with the co-workers and the top management to bring a strategic change in the organization. Here strategic leaders should possess the various skills like learning skills, communication skills, listening skills, interpersonal skills, logical thinking/ critical thinking skills, strategic implementing skills, team building skills, commitment skills, stress management skills, coordination skills, cooperation skills, …show more content…
Drucker, “Leadership is the lifting of a man’s sights to higher vision, the raising of a man’s standard to higher performance, the building of man’s personality beyond its normal limitations.”
According to James J. Cribbin, Leadership is “a process of influencing a group in a particular situation at a given point of time and in a specific set of circumstances that stimulates people to strive willingly to attain organizational objectives, giving them the experience of helping attain the common objectives and satisfaction with the types of leadership provided.”
Hodge and Johnson had the opinion that, “Leadership is fundamentally the ability to form and mould the attitudes and behavior of other individuals, whether informal or formal situation and that management relates to the formal task of decision and command.”
Leadership is defined as “The process of influencing people so that they will enthusiastically strive to achieve the organizational goal through change.”
Without leadership, a group disintegrates, destroys its team-sprit and fritters away its energy on unnecessary activities. Leadership is, therefore, essential if organizations are to be more than ‘warehouses for machines.’ Leaders play a critical role in helping groups, organizations, or societies achieve their …show more content…
The qualities and skills of a leader go far beyond cultivating a friendly personality, or applying the sophisticated methods and principles of management/administration, or practicing the techniques of human relations. A leader’s vital function is to visualize and concretize the ethos of values in the work and objectives of the work groups. He has to define and articulate the work goals and purposes in terms of a larger and imaginative vision. He has to impart and sustain a vision in which work excellence, duty, and cooperation of people are seen to be related to his eternal purposes. He should transmute small, selfish, and parochial objectives of individuals into larger social and spiritual goals (Rastogi,
Strategic Leader always envisages the future, plan accordingly and communicates it with the co-workers and the top management to bring a strategic change in the organization. Here strategic leaders should possess the various skills like learning skills, communication skills, listening skills, interpersonal skills, logical thinking/ critical thinking skills, strategic implementing skills, team building skills, commitment skills, stress management skills, coordination skills, cooperation skills, …show more content…
Drucker, “Leadership is the lifting of a man’s sights to higher vision, the raising of a man’s standard to higher performance, the building of man’s personality beyond its normal limitations.”
According to James J. Cribbin, Leadership is “a process of influencing a group in a particular situation at a given point of time and in a specific set of circumstances that stimulates people to strive willingly to attain organizational objectives, giving them the experience of helping attain the common objectives and satisfaction with the types of leadership provided.”
Hodge and Johnson had the opinion that, “Leadership is fundamentally the ability to form and mould the attitudes and behavior of other individuals, whether informal or formal situation and that management relates to the formal task of decision and command.”
Leadership is defined as “The process of influencing people so that they will enthusiastically strive to achieve the organizational goal through change.”
Without leadership, a group disintegrates, destroys its team-sprit and fritters away its energy on unnecessary activities. Leadership is, therefore, essential if organizations are to be more than ‘warehouses for machines.’ Leaders play a critical role in helping groups, organizations, or societies achieve their …show more content…
The qualities and skills of a leader go far beyond cultivating a friendly personality, or applying the sophisticated methods and principles of management/administration, or practicing the techniques of human relations. A leader’s vital function is to visualize and concretize the ethos of values in the work and objectives of the work groups. He has to define and articulate the work goals and purposes in terms of a larger and imaginative vision. He has to impart and sustain a vision in which work excellence, duty, and cooperation of people are seen to be related to his eternal purposes. He should transmute small, selfish, and parochial objectives of individuals into larger social and spiritual goals (Rastogi,