Leadership: Are Leadership Born Or Made?

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“A true leader’s leadership is an inside – out conscious exercise and an effort that starts with leading oneself to do the right thing and at the right time or that which must be done to achieve a desired end or an outcome.”[1] (Theo H. Veldsman, Andrew J. Johnson, Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela, 2016) leadership is a major component or in other words an essential element of all organizational structures ranging from small scale business firms to large and intricate ones. I feel that without leadership a commercial agency or the society as a whole is stripped of the ability to perform and achieve its major goals and objectives efficiently and effectively. The senior management of a firm have to be very careful to ensure that people they recruit …show more content…

In my opinion leadership is a trait where an individual working within an organization as an employee has the ability to lead people in a manner that enables the organization to achieve its goals and objectives. A leader guides his/ her team members, provides them with the opportunities to learn from mistakes, provide positive feedback and also to exercise authority wherever needed. In addition to this a leader should also possess sufficient management skills to manage the work of his/ her team members and also to cope up with stress and change. I feel that affluent leaders are born and then made or refined into successful heads who carve the way for organizational success. …show more content…

This is that stage of a leaders life where I feel that leaders are born because the capability to tell someone who opposes your views or opinions given that you’re superior in authority to them requires a strong headed individual with the power to justify a given task and get their official power into action – A natural authoritative skill by birth. According to the article the author agrees with me – leaders are partly born and partly made. From a theoretical perspective leaders are born and not made. Leaders come into this world with skills and competencies that they already have within them. Qualities that are not developed but which they acquire naturally by birth. The other side of the theoretical perspective suggests that leaders are made and not born. Behavioral Theories propose that leadership skills can be developed through experience, training and development, coaching, teaching etc. there may at times be constraints that hinder a leader from performing up to the mark. For instance, you may be leading a firm where your actual leadership abilities are not being properly utilized or highlighted. As a result, a leader may feel demotivated. The Behavioral Theory states that leadership is all about choice. A leader may be a person from within a crowd that may come forward to take the responsibility for leading. The author’s personal experience also resembles

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