Issues in Leadership

Abstract

Leadership interfaces with all facets of human existence. It influences all aspects of human existence from social, psychological and physical realities. The issue of leadership does not only extend to all facets of human physical existence, but it also extends to man's spirituality started many centuries ago. On reading Blanchard’s book (2007), I have summarized who is a leader. Aleader is a person who 1) ignites, 2) motivates, 3) empowers, 4) plans, 5) comes with the foresight, 6) sets a roadmap for his/her followers, and 7) is willing to change his/her perspective in keeping with current conditions to obtain the required vision (or dream or outcome). Historically, people who have risen to the level of effective and/or heroic leaders have a similar characteristic, foresight. From Sam Sharpe, Paul Bogle, Nanny of the Maroon, Michael Manley, Bustamante, Norman Manley, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castrol, Ronald Reagan, Rex Nettleford, Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kuan Yew, Angela Merkel, Alan Mulally, Bill Clinton, Dalai Lama, Kim Jong-Eun, Adolf Hitler, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Putin, John F. Kennedy, Theodore D. Roosevelt, to Malcolm X all have one thing in common, foresight or a vision.