WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? WHO IS A LEADER?

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Often times, people attribute leadership to those occupying political offices, founders & head of religious organizations, military and paramilitary heads and so on. This assumption is completely wrong, because leaders are everywhere. You don’t even need a formal title to be a leader; a lot of notable leaders do not hold any political post e.g. Jesus Christ, Michael Faraday, Aliko Dangote, Pastor E.A Adeboye, Benjamin Franklin, Strive Masiyiwa, Azim Hashim Premji, Bishop David Oyedepo etc. Who is therefore a leader? And what is leadership?
Leadership is encompassed in taking the lead, setting the pace and blazing the trail. It is about laying good, positive and result oriented examples that other people can follow. Setting the pace as a leader could mean, establishing the speed at which the group you are leading moves.
Leadership is vision. Leaders must be visionary; leaders possess capacity to create a vision for the future. A leader must have an idea of what he/she would like to achieve/accomplish in the short-term, midterm and long-term future. Most leading organizations in the world have a vision statement; all individuals with leadership potentials must have a vision statement too.

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