Body I for RW

The first section will discuss what the leadership is. First of all, it is necessary to make a clear definition of leadership. According to Lori, leadership is “an ability which can be developed, not necessarily inborn, and which is manifested in performance, not merely in potential.” Leadership is come out from three ways. One is heredity. Although leadership is not necessarily inborn and can be acquired, some people own the traits of leadership by nature. One good example is intelligence. Worldwide great leaders possess extreme intelligence. There is a limitation for “acquired intelligence.” One element of leadership is undoubtedly heredity. Two is environment. Even if some people possess leadership skills as their nature, it will not be exerted under the inappropriate situation. The children from excellent people are not always excellent. Some might be restricted their skills as leader, and other might be spoiled because of their circumstances. Focusing on excellent people, they are not always blessed with circumstance. Certain environment helps to develop leadership in children. Three is training. To develop leadership, enough stimuli are required. For example, there is an extremely smart kid. Adult requests him to make a beautiful statue for next month’s exhibit with his five classmates, not his “friends.” How can he achieve is successfully? Probably adults with average intelligence will be able to do it better. That is because adults are more experienced. In the leadership education, two of three: environment and training have to be prepared for children. (8-9 Jones)

              Then, what exact qualities are required for leadership? Some researchers discovered necessary traits among the leaders. From these researches, “common traits” of leadership are discovered. First quality is courage, energy and initiative to take actions for organization. Leader has to be the first person to work for follower. Also, he must be the central of everyone to influence his followers. The leader who is lack of this quality is not enough to influence others because he cannot “move” the followers psychologically and physically. Second quality is intelligence and insight to understand organization and his follower. Intelligence creates new idea for the difficulties, and insight to grasp what is going on around and inside of organization. The leader lacking of this quality will lose a clue of solution and make the problem worse. Third quality is sincerity, kindness and friendliness to make “trust.” Nobody will follow the person who is lack of trust. Cooperation is based on the mutual trust. The person lacking of this quality cannot be a leader ever because of his selfishness. Even more, he will be hated or ostracized by others. Some might not be surprised and say it is natural for leader to have it. However, how many people can lists up all of those qualities before giving the answers? Probably few of them can do it. That is why many researchers seek the essence of leadership and that is why the society desires a good leader. The purpose of leadership education is to develop these three qualities.