Many talk about it ,few understand it. Most people want it ,few archive it .There are over hundreds definitions and descriptions of it in my personal files .What is this intriguing subject we call leadership "?
Perhaps because most of us want to be leaders , we become emotionally involved when trying to define leadership .Or perhaps because we know one , we try to copy his or her behavior and describe leadership as personality.
Ask 20 people the definition of leadership and you will get 20 different answers .After more than five years of observing leadership within my family and friends and many years of developing my own leadership potential ,I have come to this conclusion Leadership is Influence
That is it .Nothing more or less .My favorite leadership proverb is :He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk 😂😂
Vusi Themekhwayo one of our modern day speaker ,said it quite effectively in a recent interview by the SABC News
What is leadership? Remove for a moment the moral issues behind it and there is only one definition: Leadership is the ability to obtain followers.
Hitler was a leader ,Zuma was too ,Helen Zille too ,Mandela the popular of them all was too and Jesus of Nazareth and so many on .
By the way Malema J is a leader too✊😊
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Introduction
Non-FictionIt was a moment I will never forget. I was tutoring on a subject of leadership(UNISA) , and we had just taken a fifteen minute break . A man named Xolela rushed up to me and said "you have saved my career" !Thank you so much . As he turned to walk a...
