Leadership and Management (Essay Sample)

Leadership and Management
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Leadership can be defined as the ability for a person or organization to lead, direct and guide their fellow individual or the whole organization. The term leadership means differently to various people. However, to me this term is all about someone being able to find the perfect objective which is more important than self-interest driven ambition. Leadership is all about having the ability to earn trust from people you lead or guide by acting in a manner that do not only favors your person interest or ambitions but that of the entire team or organization.
Leadership is having the skills to make critical decisions with the hope of earning people’s trust and to be able to do the right thing (Bennis & Nanus, 1975). Leadership is not about the role or the post one holds in an organization but rather it comes from the person’s willingness to work as a leader. It comes from within the person and it is not something that is imposed on someone. Leadership means setting clear objectives for the organization or the team, having the passion to work for the organization and having the self-awareness of the role to play as a team leader. Leadership takes various approaches and this section will discuss the three major approaches of defining the term leadership.
First, leadership is all about building trust. It is very difficult to earn people’s trust but it is very easy to break that trust that has already been earned (Bennis & Nanus, 1975). With the technological advancement, the social media has made it very easy for people to expose others or get exposed. Trust is what determines a good and effective leader. Trust is what convinces people that a leader actually means what he/she says. Trust is having the purpose for people to believe in you. Secondly, leadership also involves being mindful. This is the ability for a leader to apply new techniques in decision making process. It is the ability to gain new problem solving techniques and applying them to make the new rising problem in an organization. Being mindful gives a leader the perfect opportunity to discard the outdated techniques to solve a problem. This quality enhances leadership by improving the decision- making process (Dewan & Myatt, 2008). The third primary approach to leadership is faith. Faith is the ability to believe that something is right. It gives a leader the courage to believe in what he/she has decided on. Faith is what makes people trust a leader. I am applying for MAX Manager because I believe I have the competency to play the role. I have the pass...