Leadership in Business Characteristics of Great Leader

Question: What are the characteristics of a great leader? what in your mind makes you an effective leader? what in your mind are the things that need to work on in order to become amore effective leader? how would you get other to do what you want them to do if you did not have any power over them ? Answer: A leader is said to be a good leader if one assembles a team to work for an idea to make it a successful venture and confers the unique ability to execution. Moreover, a great leader is said to possess qualities that are a reflection to his team. Honesty, communication, confidence, commitment and positive attitude are the basic qualities of great leader. However, transparency and building trust through collaboration, being gracious yet persuasive through influence, gaining competitive advantage through innovation and managing people through empathetic nature are the signs of a great leader[1]. An effective leader is a great leader but has the fundamental ability to believe in oneself because maturity, conviction and expertise translates to a particular purpose as well as direction. Moreover, the effective leader enables a clarity vision for oneself and for his team by instilling self-esteem, motivation and teamwork[2]. Effective leaders like Steve Jobs who discovered Apple Inc. was successful because of its passion and his vision for the company[3]. Although, the effective leaders are the human resource to an organization but they possess the ability to resolve issues that are open to variety of obstacles in different circumstances. Leadership relates to unrelenting demands that are of high emotional resilience and high physical vitality for which they require lot of flexibility and ideas. However, to be an effective leader there should be an operational way that could put forward variety of viewpoints as well as solutions. On the contrary, motivation is one factor that should foster cooperative effort that not only promotes listening and gathering of opinions but also incorporates effective strategies that generates a clear vision. Moreover, the leaders should always focus on trust factors because it minimizes the risk and helps in bringing conviction[4]. A leader always possesses the quality of transference that explains the master skills of attracting followers through understandable efforts. However, the transference attitude falls into two types of motivations- one is rational and the other is irrational. The rational possesses the quality of consciousness whereas irrational motivation is related to powerful images projecting relationships with leaders. However, without being a leader, the qualities that runs down an individual to be followed by others is communication in which there is understanding without condemnation and complains, honest and sincere appreciation without nagging and being courteous without adding criticism. This is only possible through mastering skills of self-perseverance. Nevertheless, the other factors that can provide influence without power is credibility of the values and policies while attracting through a diffusion effect and not through easily observable specific actions[5]. References Dachls, A, "How to Plant Ideas in Someone's Mind". inLifehacker.com, , 2014, https://lifehacker.com/5715912/how-to-plant-ideas-in-someones-mind [accessed 12 August 2016]. Pirouz, A, "8 Characteristics of Great Leaders". inHuffington Post India, , 2016, https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/8-characteristics-of-grea_b_7680566 [accessed 12 August 2016]. 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