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Leadership

Personal Leadership
Tamekia Bradford
Grand Canyon University
BUS 310
Keith Wade
December 7, 2008

Everyone has the potential to become a leader within an organization. If there were not any leaders, companies could not survive. They would fail under a blanket of chaos and confusion. A few select people in an organization bloom into a true leader and actually lead and not manage. These people develop certain styles and qualities that they find effective means to lead by.
Leadership is something that most everybody desires to have. Leadership is a quality or trait that every individual possesses, but not necessarily uses. Leadership is something that needs to be perfected over a given period of time, which may vary for each individual. Leadership can be defined many ways, but the loose working definition I chose was- Leadership is the process whereby one or several individuals’ influence(s) other group members toward the attainment of defined group or organizational goals.
Generally, when you ask someone what a leader is there is a general answer. That answer is that it’s a person that has great influence and power in our society. People like Bill Gates, President Clinton, or Martin Luther King Jr. These people are all leaders, but there are leaders in every level of our American society. These are people from middle management in the corporate world today inspiring our students in campus organizations across the United States. The word leader and leadership go hand in hand. To be a truly effective leader one must attain quality leadership skills. Leadership is a quality that millions of people around the world have and not just prominent business and political people. It affects us everyday in our lives, either by us leading, or by being led.
Personal leadership is the desire of an individual to take charge of his or her own life. Personal leaders realize that leadership is not a position or title, but an outlook on life and their role in the...