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You cant Clone Leaders; (but can you teach them?)

You Cannot Clone Leaders (but can you teach them

2007 You Cannot Clone Leaders (but can you teach them

Introduction

When discussing business leadership , the difference between good management and good leadership often exists . In What Leaders Really Do Kotter (1990 ) justifies that leaders and managers are indeed different but they are complementary since a successful organization needs both good leaders and managers

In line with theory of management , Kotter mentions that managers are usually thought to be the budgeters , the organizers , the controllers - the ants , as Kotter puts

it - while leaders are the motivators big-picture visionaries , the ones who change the whole organization

The particular characteristics that managers and leaders possess imply that becoming leaders involve several activities that anyone can learn it . However , in previous study , some psychologists reveal that leaders are innate and genetically inherit the gifts form their ancestors

Concerning the issue whether leaders are made or born , this will discuss about leadership , factors that lead to becoming high quality leaders , and skills that leaders must have . In the conclusion , we will summarize and take stance about how to become leaders

Leadership

Nitin Nohria , a professor at Harvard Business School , says that leaders have capability to say important things in a few words . General Electric 's Jack Welch is a good example . He is astonishingly articulate and able to convey complicated concepts in just a few phrases

This condition in line with Louis R . Pondy who reveals that leadership is the matter of social influence in which good leaders must master three components of grammar : phonetics , syntactic , and semantic . Pondy suggests that the capability of using an appropriate language would characterize a leader

Other scholars , Morris (1949 ,

.214 , justifies that characteristics of having good language is important for leaders since language has powerful impact on controlling people /employees ' behavior in to turn them into generating benefits for a company . Similarly , Fairhurst Saar (1996 ) also reveal that composing appropriate language is essential for leaders in to help them to grab audience attention and interests towards particular issues

In addition to language capability , there are four unexpected qualities of inspirational and quality leaders have as following

Showing weaknesses selectively

Relying greatly on intuition to gauge the appropriate timing and course of their actions

Managing employees with empathy

Reveal their differences and capitalizing on what is unique about them

Are Leaders Born or Made

The characteristics of leaders as explained above implies that leadership is skills that anyone can learn and master it . However , in the earlier 50-year research about leadership by several psychologists they believe that leadership is gifted skills or genetic and they reveal that leadership is impossible to learn

However , in recent research , some psychologists find that leadership is a skill that anyone can learn . This is because some respondents that have key positions in organizations such as Vice Presidents (VPs ) of firms and military leaders say that their leadership skills are honed during their childhood and teenager 's era . At that...

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