A Leadership Detailed Overview Leadership Essay

Leadership had been started from many century. There are so many person who are known because of there leadership. I have read many articles on leadership and also had read the life history of many popular leaders so I came to know that leadership is the capability and skill of an individual to make other to do to achieve the common goal. Good leadership always ends with the good result and satisfaction. There are so many leader who didn’t have any quality to be the leader in their childhood but slowly and gradually they grew the leadership skill in them so, we also can say that leadership quality are not inborn it comes through experience, training, hard work and above all strong desire and will power. A good leader not only led the team but also influence other to be like him. He must have the vision and the drive to see it through.

Leadership is mainly consist of four factors they are briefly discussed below:

Leader: There should be good, trustworthy, honest, understanding leader for leadership. He should have knowledge what they are doing, How that should be done, and for whom that is being done. He must have confidence on himself and thrust on the team.

Followers: Leader without followers cannot be imagining. Followers follow as per the leaders orders.

Communication: If there is no communication is not there than it’s impossible to tell what leader wants. Communication also helps to build the good relation between him and his follower.

Situation: Each situation is different than another. He should be able to decide in which situation require which leadership.

Leadership style varies from situation, follower and assigned task. For example, a new follower requires more supervision than the old one. He should also know his follower nature, their needs, emotion etc.

All the leadership are based on following principle

Be technically proficient – Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions 

Make sound and timely decisions 

Set the example 

Know your people and look out for their well-being 

Keep your workers informed 

Develop a sense of responsibility in your workers 

Ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished 

Train as a team 

Use the full capabilities of your organization 

“The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.”

Elaine Agather

To be the good leader is not easy. Strong determination, hardworking and some of the following keys can help to be the good leader:

Humble and positive : A leader must be humble and polite. There is certain way to get job done through the team member. A harsh and strict manner of leader can demotivate his follower and can decrease their interest level of working though they finish their assigned task but they may not want to work with him again. He should also have positive attitude towards everyone. He should think positive be positive and do positive.

Effective communication: Leader should be able to communicate his ideas and knowledge among the follower. There should be no misunderstanding and dilemma among the follower regarding the work assigned to them so, he should be able to communicate effectively.

Confident and trustworthy: leader should be confident enough to say what he wants and how he want. He should be able to confidently present himself among the team member because the entire employee wants the guidance from the confident leader. He should also be trustworthy. He should be able to win the trust of his follower.

Motivation: He should be able to motivate other to their assigned work. Every one are motivated in different way so he should know that which way is best for whom. Some are motivated from negative motivation and some are with positive so he should understand every one and take the right decision.

Self-Esteem: Underlying everything, is a high sense of one’s own self-worth. Without that, individuals will never undertake tough challenges. If one does not have it, it’s important to develop self-esteem. A leader must have self esteem.

Goal Orientation: A leader must e goal oriented. Every work what he does should be goal focus. For many, leadership characteristics of being focus on a goal can be difficult but a good leader always focuses on what he wants and how he wants. His every step is towards his goal.

Courage: Many professors talk about entrepreneurs as risks takers. But this leadership characteristic is like saying snow is cold-it’s accurate but missing something. Another way is to say the same thing is that one must have guts. It requires a great deal of courage to build a company from the ground up.

Tolerance of uncertain risk: A leader should have tolerant ability of uncertain risk or misshapen. There can occur uncertain risk in the future the leader should not run rather handle the situation and tolerate it. Being the leader is not small task you should have brilliant tolerant ability also.

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

George S. Patton

Everyone is not leader it is the fact everyone should accept it. You must have some leadership skill also to:

Lead by leader: One of the best ways to lead is by example – pitching in where needed, lending a helping hand and assuring that everything is done.

Passion: A leader without passion is not the leader.

be organized: A good leader should be well organized.

Delegate: A leader cannot do anything alone so he should also delegate his power among the well deserved person.

Great Listener. A huge part of being a great communicator is being a great listener.

Know your people: You should be able to now the nature of people because different people have different in nature.

Be follower: all the great leaders are follower too so you leader can follow other good leader.

The above mention skill and character I found and I am on them highly inspired by the Rob Fyfe and Alan Bollard. I feel that they have all the quality to be the leader and they are inspiring leader of this generation though they face unsuccessful some time.

At first I want to talk about Rob Fyfe.

Rob Fyfe:

He was born on 6 May 1961and now he is a current Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand national airline Air New Zealand. He was born in New Zealand and graduated with Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) honors from the University of Canterbury in 1982. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He was previously General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Chief Operating Officer of ITV Digital (which went into bankruptcy while he was at the helm) and group general manager of Air New Zealand. Fyfe has been with the company since 2003.

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Theodore Roosevelt

I consider him a good leader because airline is going through the many difficulties like high fuel price, increased competition, global economy crash down etc. Fyfe, now into his fourth year at the top, he took stand in each difficult situation and each situation. He is the quick mover in charge.

He was up front and available immediately after the crash of his one airplane, responding with an openness that is characteristic of his dealings with staff and passengers.

He has given the high priority to the innovation in the company as a result Air New Zealand recently made the world’s first flight using a sustainable bio fuel. It also attempted sending a rocket into space.

He listen to the every ideas of the employee and they has an interesting programme called Test Flight where employees share ideas to the executive team if the idea is chosen the person can

work in the project and he also can have share in the profit.

While mass layoffs have been a feature of other airlines’ response to the crises facing aviation,

Air New Zealand has avoided this – around 200 of 11,000 staff will go early next year.

His positive nature an can do attitude was always seen in his leadership. He says “We operate this airline in a New Zealand way – we’re not trying to emulate a Singapore Airlines or emulate a McDonald’s. We’re trying to go out there day in and day out and trying to be authentic Kiwis and give people a real genuine New Zealand experience”.

He never stop working in his product and improvising it.

Due to his leadership and his dedication made Air New Zealand Airline of the Year by the Air Transport World Magazine.

My other inspirational leader is Alan Bollard. This year has been really difficult and challenging due to economic crisis but the man tasked with maintaining that structure in these difficult times is the Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard.

Alan Bollard born on 1951 in Auckland is the current governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, having been appointed on 23 September 2002. He succeeded Donald Brash in this role.

His earlier public service included four years as Secretary to the Treasury, and time as head of the Commerce Commission. He headed the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (1987-1994) and has edited or written at least three books about economic reform in New Zealand.

He gained a PhD in Economics from the University of Auckland in 1977 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the same university in 2007.

Bollard has had to face with the steepest commodity price rise and then with the global financial crisis since the great depression. But he has not been afraid of recession. He had confident on himself and on what he was doing.

He always says that bank are silence army always prepare themselves foe the uncertain future so he was always ready to face what comes on future.

He says that we should be worry about what comes in next year though we can learn from the previous year and should never do such mistake again. He was future oriented.

He follows the Integrity (being professional and exercising), Innovation (actively improving what we do) and inclusion (working together for a more effective bank.

“The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does-and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.”

Colonel Dandridge M. Malone

He always tries toinnovate new for the more effective being professional. His leadership was so good that he got credit from the Westpac chief Brendan O’Donovan for not being afraid of engineering a recession when curbing inflation and other excesses requires.

he was able to lead the bank successfully so that he won the Herald’s 2008 New Zealand Business Man of the Year.

Its easy to be the leader but hard to be the good leader. Both business leader have so many similar qualities which made them a good business leader. Both leader believes on their work. They were future oriented and goal oriented thought they are from different field of business, one is of airlines and other is bank. They faced many challenges (recession, commodities price high etc.)but they never back out from the situation. They always thought about the employees and their benefit also. They didn’t became leader from less effort they give their heart to it so that they are her tasting the fruit of success.

They mainly follow:

Be good

Know your role

Take responsibilities

Take risk

Decision on right time

Innovation of ideas

Participation of employees

Know your strength and weakness

Accept the change

Find your unique selling point

Don’t give up

So they can be taken as the good example of leader and can learn many thing from their life. There are less leader who became the leader overnight but you need long hard work and determination to be the good leader.

There are many leader in the history who agve their life being leader. Every country have the story of leader who gave their life saving the country. Leader are in every field other than business also. Leadership quality is not in born it shoul be acquire with strong willpower, determination and hard work. You should know that everyone cannot be the leader and leader are

“Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.”

Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

also once the follower of some other leader. Leadership can be inside of you also you just need to find that and work on it. Who knows you can be also the successful leader of the future. There can be success waitng you far away just know your character and skill.