Leadership
Commonly, the word leadership it is related to:
- the associated position to one authority figure like, for example, .
- the position associated to a person with technical abilities or experience, like the leader of equipment or an engineer supervisor.
- a group of people with certain influence.
- it guides and direction, as in the phrase "the emperor does not show sufficient leadership".
- the capacity or ability to direct.
If simply we defined to the leadership as "the influence that is exerted on others with certain intention" and we defined to the follower like "somebody whom it is influenced by others for a certain intention", then lìder and the follower turns out to be two sides of the same currency. In this context, the leadership -- successful or not -- does not happen until at least a follower decides to be it. Of the same form, anybody or something does not exist following without (not necessarily a leader) that it can be followed. Although in any case, the leadership does not need to be deliberate or conscious, since the followers can be united to which not even is tried to liderear. Even so, there are some who consider to the "unconscious leadership" a doubtful concept. Many, using a concept different from leadership, they would allege that not even it can call to it him leadership because a deliberate intention does not exist to be leader.
The word "leadership" in itself can mean a collective group of leaders, or can mean special characteristics -- if nonmystical -- of one it appears famous (like hero). Also other uses for this word exist, in which a leader does not direct, but simply is a figure of respect (like a using the courtesy title, reverendo). Along with the roll of prestige that it is associated some times to leaders inspiradores, a more superficial use of the word "leadership" can designate to organizations "innovators", those that during a period of time take the advantage in some scope, like some corporation or a product that takes the first position in some .
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Characteristics of a leader
Between the main characteristics of a leader this the power to captivate the attention of the others with its ideas, to have a high degree of persuación, additionally, is common to observe in the leaders the great facility of word, an extroverted character and confidence in if same.
Scopes of development
Work
In the businesses two important characteristics in their executives are evaluated, on the one hand, aptitude and by another one attitude. First one obtains with the learning of new methods and procedures, for example, the capacity to construct a balance, a flow of box, distribution of plant or a plan of marketing, but in many cases these knowledge are not applicable because the managers lack a good attitude, that is to say, a suitable behavior that tries to implement these methods. Between the asked for and required attitudes more it is the leadership ability, the same one that can be cultivated but that according to many authors it is part of the personality of each person. How to know if we are formed as leaders and in opposite case, how to develop these abilities in our person, it is a subject of ample debate and study, but it is necessary to discover if we have something of leaders and what things we need to manage to be it to cabalidad.
A classification of the tipología of the leadership is the formal one, that represents the direction of work group of form official or designated and less evident other, recognized by the members of the institution of an informal way and that has great influence, but of a free way, without repaying spirit and of charismatic form. In the sociological studies of communitarian development by participativa observation, these people are key for work of field
