What is Leadership

<h1>What is Leadership</h1>Author: <a title="Zehra Saleem" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/zehra-saleem/285901.htm">Zehra Saleem</a>  “A leader is a dealer in hope”—Napoleon The word leadership encompasses a much broader meaning than simply implying that an individual has an authority amongst a certain group of people to take decisions and delegate responsibility. Leadership is the ability of an individual to motivate and provide a sense of direction or purpose to groups of people. Leadership does not require an authority or position to take people along, infact it is the charismatic characteristic of the leader that lets him to emerge from amongst the people and achieve the goals. Leaders are not people who emphasize on their superiority and the fact that others are accountable to them, but actually serve the purpose of providing role models for others. Effective leadership requires being empathetic, possessing strong networking skills, communication skills and people management abilities. Leaders create possibilities out of impossibilities, extract hope out of despair and bring light out of darkness. Leadership is not about success alone; it is about living and dying for your convictions. It is about creating the synergy through inspiration, motivation, personal example and sacrifice to achieve what seems impossible. Leadership is not a form of exercising influence, but empowering and motivating others on the road to achievement. The history of mankind is replete with leaderships of most divergent styles such as authoritative, participative, collaborative etc. But the phenomenon of leadership is so complex and the personalities of world leaders are so divergent that no consensus model has emerged. Infact, it is the personality of the leader that attracts people to look up to him and follow him.  There are the genuine divine leaders like prophets and the pseudo divine leaders like Pharaohs and Rasputin. Then we have charismatic leaders like Kennedy, Gandhi, Bhutto, Jinnah and Nelson Mandela. Military leaders like Salah-uddin-Ayyubi, Napoleon, Churchill, Rommel and General McArthur. They are well known to us because of the effective leadership qualities they possess.   About the Author: Ms. Zehra Saleem is a fulltime faculty at the most renowned and oldest business school of Pakistan Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi since the last three years. She is Marketer by education with a degree in Masters in Business Administration (MBA- Majors: Marketing) from Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi and certification in marketing CPM (Certified Professional Marketer) from Asia Pacific Marketing Federation, Singapore. Zehra also holds DAIBP from The Institute of Bankers, Pakistan. Currently she is pursuing her MPhil leading to PhD from SZABIST (Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology).

Zehra has an excellent educational background and her achievements include first position in MBA from IBA and Gold Medal for first position in BBA. She possesses professional work experience as Assistant Brand Manager at Habib Bank Limited, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and NIB.

Zehra has conducted lectures, workshops, trainings and research based presentations at various professional forums and community levels in the last few years. She has been involved in research and authored few research articles. Her interest in the Organizational management practices has led her to work on various case studies on the managerial and corporate issues and strategies of the Pakistani organizations. For consultancy work, her specialization includes: Strategic planning, Innovation Management, Performance Appraisal systems, Conflict Management and Developing Marketing Plans.

For more information you can contact Ms. Zehra Saleem at <a href="mailto:mimispalace@yahoo.com">mimispalace@yahoo.com</a> 
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“A leader is a dealer in hope”—Napoleon

The word leadership encompasses a much broader meaning than simply implying that an individual has an authority amongst a certain group of people to take decisions and delegate responsibility. Leadership is the ability of an individual to motivate and provide a sense of direction or purpose to groups of people. Leadership does not require an authority or position to take people along, infact it is the charismatic characteristic of the leader that lets him to emerge from amongst the people and achieve the goals. Leaders are not people who emphasize on their superiority and the fact that others are accountable to them, but actually serve the purpose of providing role models for others. Effective leadership requires being empathetic, possessing strong networking skills, communication skills and people management abilities. Leaders create possibilities out of impossibilities, extract hope out of despair and bring light out of darkness. Leadership is not about success alone; it is about living and dying for your convictions. It is about creating the synergy through inspiration, motivation, personal example and sacrifice to achieve what seems impossible. Leadership is not a form of exercising influence, but empowering and motivating others on the road to achievement.

The history of mankind is replete with leaderships of most divergent styles such as authoritative, participative, collaborative etc. But the phenomenon of leadership is so complex and the personalities of world leaders are so divergent that no consensus model has emerged. Infact, it is the personality of the leader that attracts people to look up to him and follow him.

There are the genuine divine leaders like prophets and the pseudo divine leaders like Pharaohs and Rasputin. Then we have charismatic leaders like Kennedy, Gandhi, Bhutto, Jinnah and Nelson Mandela. Military leaders like Salah-uddin-Ayyubi, Napoleon, Churchill, Rommel and General McArthur. They are well known to us because of the effective leadership qualities they possess.

Ms. Zehra Saleem is a fulltime faculty at the most renowned and oldest business school of Pakistan Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi since the last three years. She is Marketer by education with a degree in Masters in Business Administration (MBA- Majors: Marketing) from Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi and certification in marketing CPM (Certified Professional Marketer) from Asia Pacific Marketing Federation, Singapore. Zehra also holds DAIBP from The Institute of Bankers, Pakistan. Currently she is pursuing her MPhil leading to PhD from SZABIST (Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology). Zehra has an excellent educational background and her achievements include first position in MBA from IBA and Gold Medal for first position in BBA. She possesses professional work experience as Assistant Brand Manager at Habib Bank Limited, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and NIB. Zehra has conducted lectures, workshops, trainings and research based presentations at various professional forums and community levels in the last few years. She has been involved in research and authored few research articles. Her interest in the Organizational management practices has led her to work on various case studies on the managerial and corporate issues and strategies of the Pakistani organizations. For consultancy work, her specialization includes: Strategic planning, Innovation Management, Performance Appraisal systems, Conflict Management and Developing Marketing Plans. For more information you can contact Ms. Zehra Saleem at mimispalace@yahoo.com

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