Who
is a leader? The answer for this simple question cannot
be simple. It can be viewed from different angles. But,
in common we can state a leader is a person who can
influence others and make them follow him. He can influence
people through coercion as well as his charisma. Both
are claimed to be the styles of leadership. We cannot
deny the fact that Hitler was a leader who influenced
people through his autocracy and power. Leaders change
their situation through their choice and determination.
They make things happen around them. Good leaders observe
other leaders carefully and nurture their competencies
to mould their own styles. The value and culture, which
most of the business leaders of today have are quite
contradictory to one another. But, the question is,
what made them to succeed? A successful leader is said
to have combination of some key attributes of leadership.
Many
leaders that we have seen and are seeing are not the
same. No two successful leaders can have same type of
qualities. Gandhi and Churchill cannot be compared in
their styles. The differences they have shown may be
due to their backgrounds.But it is shocking to know that none of the successful leaders
have got all these attributes. If, all these attributes
are essential for good leaders, then we would have never
come across leaders in our life. Countless combination
of these attributes will result in different styles
of leadership. But, the successful leaders that we are
going to discuss about are different in their gender,
culture, behavior, business, background, etc. These
people share two things in common. One is tenacity,
that is, adherence to the long-term vision. Their vision
stood in front of their decisions and actions.
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