The Importance Of Leadership: Leadership Is Everyone's Business

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Leadership is Everyone’s Business
Leadership is everyone’s business because it’s the small things that matter the most that can have a profound impact on our lives. As a result, “leadership is about relationships, about credibility, and about what you do. And everything you will ever do as a leader is based on one audacious assumption: that you matter” (Kouzes & Posner, 2010, pg. 329). Being an effective leader will prove to be difficult without these relationships and trust because you want to show others that you have consistent behaviour since you are looked at whether or not it is apparent to you. Consistency is fundamental to establish yourself as trustworthy because people are looking at everything you do. If you were to waiver, that is to say, if you don’t walk the line, you will be viewed as untrustworthy because your actions and words don’t align. As a result, credibility must be the foundation if you want to be active in a leadership role which leads to my next point.
Credibility is the Foundation Caldwell et al. (2010) used Mayer’s 1995 work to define loyalty as trustworthiness that is “a subjective perception interpreted by each party and is measured on a …show more content…

This search requires you to “seize the initiative and exercise outsight” (Kouzes & Posner, 2010, pg. 159). To be an effective leader you have to think outside the box, and this requires you to be creative and having enthusiasm. Challenges give you the opportunity to learn new things, question the status quo, and look to other who have the experience you lack. By asking why you get to the underlying reasons why certain processes structured that way. Asking why also allow you to find innovative ways to improve the processes. Thus, it is fair to say challenges generate changes in the way things are done. Consequently, this allows you to stand out and can propel you further along the ranks towards

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