GROUP 2
Chapter 1: Who is a Leader and what skills do Leaders need?
Leadership is one of the most crucial skills to establish success for any worldwide organizations. For
example, mastering leadership skills, Jeff Bezos has brought Amazon’s reputation on top of the world.
Therefore, companies nowadays focus on educating employees to be more professional in the way of leading
others through various projects and spend large amounts of money on leadership courses. They believe that
mastering leading ability can promisingly become their competitive advantage and get positive results in the
long run. Not only Leadership is appropriate for everyone, but also individuals could apply in both the
workplace and personal life practically. Furthermore, whereas being good at leading would surely be the
priority for those aiming to become managers, employees on these days also need to be well-prepared for
leading others as diversely participating in making decisions and working in teams.
During the procedure, followers are controlled and influenced by leaders to reach the highest performance
and achieve corporate objectives through changes. There are five key elements of Leadership.
Regarding Leaders-Followers, there may be many leaders in an organization, not just one leader as people
usually think. Besides, the leader is one part of the managers. A manager will deal with power, authority but
leaders deal with personal power. Another difference between leaders and managers is that managers hold
formal positions while leaders cannot. About influence, the leaders do something like communicating,
motivating employees and make sure them implement projects through changes. The more influences
followers get, the more enthusiasm and commitment leaders gain. Clear goals would be organizational
objectives when they both understand the future vision for desirable performance. Without people, a task
cannot be done, so they play as tremendously essential elements. Leaders need to understand followers, get
along well with them. Furthermore, although the change in strategies and structures is new & challenging
