The Importance Of Leadership

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The bitterest half-truth about leadership is that it’s just a matter of charm and visionary thinking you may have it or you may have not. The fact is that leadership skills are not innate. They can be acquired through practice and knowledge. But first we have to understand how these skills differ from management skills. Management is about dealing with complexity and disorder, it maintains order and predictability in a company or situation. But that’s not enough to be successful in today's world, companies must have to be highly adaptable to change. Leadership is about dealing with rapid change through the vision and aligning people towards a new direction without causing much complexities. The management and leadership has always tried to…show more content…
Its procedures and practices are generally a response to one of the most notable developments of the twentieth century: the development of large organizations. Without efficient management, complex enterprises tend to become anarchic in ways that endangered their very existence. Good management brings a degree of consistency and order to vital dimensions like the quality and profitability of services and products. On the contrary Leadership, is about dealing with change. Why it has become so vital and essential in recent years is due to the fact that the business world has become more volatile and more competitive. Faster technological changes, greater global competition, the deregulation of markets, over staffing in capital intensive industries, an unstable oil market, and the changing demographics of the work-force are among the many key factors that have contributed to this change. Notable changes are more and more necessary compete and survive effectively in this modern environment. More change always needs more leadership. To understand the difference consider the example of an army and how both ideas can be applied simultaneously. Army in peace can survive with good administration and management up and down the hierarchy, with good leadership concentrated at the top tier. At war times, army needs competent and brave leadership at all levels. Till date no one is able to figure out how to manage soldiers effectively and…show more content…
What’s more important, is the direction-setting facet of leadership does not create plans; it produces vision and strategies. These define a business or corporate culture in terms of how it should evolve over the long term and formulate a feasible way of obtaining this goal. The implication is that a vision is something very uncommon and mystical, even talented beings, could never hope to have. But building good business direction is not magic. It is a bitter and hard, sometimes exhausting and tiring process of gathering and analyzing information. People who formulate such visions aren't magicians but broad based strategic thinkers who are willing to take

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