Effective leadership involves influencing others so that they are motivated to contribute towards the group’s goals. Any human advancements in all arenas i.e sciences, sport, art, technology, industry, business, etc. For good or for ill, leaders are widely recognized as the proper focus for our attempts to understand the tides and shape of history. As a result, from an early age, we are told wonderful stories about the role that great leaders have played in making history and initiating the changes that have created the world as we know it. There has been so much study on their life ,personal traits and even environment they grew up in in an attempt to develop theories that will explain leadership. In the past leadership potential was even characterised by masculinity, ability to command others, bullying, and even some traits but these days the trend is fast changing. Past theories have promoted an individualistic view of effective leadership based on one’s leaders’ psychological uniqueness.
I do not seek to diminish the contribution that great leaders have made to the shaping of society, nor does it seek to downplay the importance of their psychology. What i do, however, is question and provide an alternative to this individualistic consensus. I argue that effective leadership is based on the ability of the leader to embody and share their psychology with others. With real and effective it should never be “I” but “We” .This makes us understand that leaders should not think in isolation but I it should be a group process and they perceive to be joined by others. It also follows from this point that in order to understand leadership properly, our gaze needs to extend beyond leaders alone; in particular, it needs to consider the followers with whom they forge a psychological connection and whose effort is required in order to do the work that drives history forward. We need this broad gaze because the proof of leadership is not the emergence of a big new idea or the development of a vision for sweeping change. Rather, it is the capacity to convince others to contribute to processes that turn ideas and visions into reality and that help to bring about change. For this reason, leadership is always predicated on followers, and the psychology of these two processes is inextricably intertwined.
Critically too, we will see that followers can only be moved to respond enthusiastically to a leader’s instruction when they see the leader as someone whose psychology is aligned with theirs—when he or she is understood to be “one of us” rather than someone who is “out for themselves” or “one of them. ”Leadership is all about influencing others and maintaining positive outcomes. Leadership can be learned and this is why most companies worldwide spent millions of dollars in leadership seminars and promoting their workforce with the right leadership skills. Every success is centred on leadership and there is need for good and sound leadership. In the world of business, the perception of leadership has changed from its early days when it largely mirrored the military model of leadership from the top down, with powerful individuals dominating large groups of less powerful people. Nowadays, leadership in business is far more knowledge-driven. The lowliest employee may end up effectively leading the direction of a vast corporation through his or her innovative ideas. Anyone with critical knowledge can show leadership. This is known as thought-leadership. In other situations, leadership can be about taking a stand for what you believe in, and trying to convince people to think and act differently.
