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Leadership and Management

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Leadership and Management

Introduction

The evolution of leadership might best be summed up by Mohandas Gandhi (NDI) who said, "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." There is an abundance of well-researched literature on the roles and functions of leadership and management, however the simple fact is that leadership and management techniques vary from organization to organization and situation to situation with respect to culture and the capacity of the leadership present in that organization at any given time.

Discussion

Personal View of Leadership

I have thought quite a bit about leadership and I think in order to be an effective leader one must truly care about people. An organization's success depends on the efforts of the leader's people; therefore a leader must empower, inspire, enable, encourage, and support subordinates. A leader must communicate the organization's goals, vision's, priorities and strategies in order to gain maximum commitment to organizational success. Leadership involves embracing and instilling a positive attitude. A successful leader is proactive, not afraid of making mistakes, and when one is made, they learn from it and move on. Effective leaders strive to spend more time preventing problems and less time solving them. I believe an organization is most effective when everyone has a sense of ownership and a stake in the success of the organization. There is power in group

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