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Leadership

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INTRODUCTION

Leadership has been described as the process of influencing others to enlist their aid or support for the completion of a mutual goal (Northouse , 2006 . Anyone who wishes to call himself a leader , must fulfill three functions or obligations : the first and foremost he must provide for the well being of those who are being led , secondly he must provide them with a social organization in which the people can feel and stay secure and in

the end he must provide his followers a set of believes

BACKGROUND

If human history is put under analysis , it can be seen clearly , that in any point of time and at any point of reference mankind was divided into the classes of two those who had a vision and the strength to create their own paths and reach their destinations and the ones who simply follow either the status quo or the new paths created by visionaries if stated simply the leader and the follower . It is in human nature to follow a sense of purpose and leaders are the personalities who contribute to fulfill such desires of the masses . The chronological development of leadership in human history is related to the social development of mankind . As the social development of men grew more and more so does the requirements of the leader . At first a leader only had to be physically strong to protect those which he...

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