Effective Leadership

The lack of effective leadership: Past, Present, & Future

Our leadership in this world has changed and affected us greatly. Leadership is being about to lead an organization with many people and to have control in the right way. “ The Leader of the Future” a book by Peter F. Drucker gives us information on why and how it is to be such a great leader. We need better leaders and we need them to guide us and help us along the way. Without leadership, our world would be in such danger and we America would be going through a lot.

Out past in leadership has been so different then our present. Our past with some of the most noteworthy issues and trends in the field of leadership development in the past 20 years under these two general headings 1) The proliferation of leadership development methods; 2) The importance of a leader’s emotional resonance with and impact on others (Broome/Hughes). These 2 are the most important things for leaders, especially like it’s been with us for 20 years now. In first heading, Proliferation of Leadership Development Methods gives us Classroom- type leadership, Development relationships, Action learning, and challenging job assignments. Each one explains to us what we have used in our past and the skills we have used.

Classroom-type leadership consists of activities such as mentoring, coaching, and action learning. This classroom training helps us to be better leaders and gets us prepared for what’s ahead of us. Our development relationships have 2 forms its coaching and mentoring. Back then coaching involved lots of practice, setting goals from one-to-one and help the behaviors to some of our leaders. Mentoring is a relation to an older leader who is agreeing and supporting the development of a youn...

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...ain focus is research”(Drucker 60). How will leaders in the future be? Will they be good or bad? Will they be better from the past? The present? Will they remember and continue to keep it going? Leadership without direction is useless (Drucker 222). In our future will need everyone to use character, vision, behaviors, and most of all confidence. You and all the leaders in this world need this in order to keep it going generation to generation.

In conclusion, leadership is need every single day. Without this, there is no use and we would be nothing in this world. What would we do without leadership? I hope that in our future, we have powerful leaders, who will guide us in our daily lives. We need them to help this world. Especially, under the conditions that we are going through in our lives each day. If we don’t have leaders, then we are nothing in this world.