Leadership Ability

Leadership ability

   “Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust the authority to a person who has demonstrated capacity, wisdom and competence."

– Walt Disney

One of the stimulants that generates great influence on a group of people that allows them to encourage them to be an active part of a project, a goal or a purpose is leadership. Quality that has been confused with concepts such as imposition and power. Different ideas are developed on these concepts, they are totally different concepts. From the perspective of power;Who uses this in order to achieve a particular and selfish purpose thus generates an individual who dedicates himself to providing orders attributed to his range and status enshrined in the hierarchy pyramid, who does not trust the abilities of others, and is not able toGenerate teamwork. On the other hand, when the leadership is sought to define, qualities that are framed to teamwork, to mutual collaboration, where the qualities and attributions of a person are glimmed, and how it can contribute to the development of guided works are attributed to the development of guided works,to get collective goals, encouraging people to innovate, create for the designated work. The attributions that a leader has lies in values, thoughts, ideas and collective development.

Thus, the author in his work shows the transformation of a thought;to understand how the difference between leadership and power create changes in personal, business, work, interpersonal and other aspects of life.

Leadership, from the perspective of power and authority

Taking into account this, the crucial points that the paradox marks in relation to leadership are shown. Therefore, the line that marks the author, labels the guideline by giving a precise definition about leadership, for his first chapters, defines leadership as “the art of influencing people to work with enthusiasm in achieving objectives in favorof the common good ". By defining this virtue as an art, it is understood that it is a dexterity learned or acquired, which develops over time and practice, which every individual can achieve if it is proposed with the right skills and behaviors.

After conceptualizing leadership and raising the basic aspects that characterize it, the author enters to analyze power and authority. Since most confuse their meaning and possible relationship. According to the RAE (2019), power is the domain, the empire, the faculty and jurisdiction that someone who has his position, his social status or his hierarchy, functions to send or execute something in charge of someone, so that even if even if he does not wantdo it, do it, due to the coercion that is imposed against him. Compared to authority, which is defined according to "the art of ensuring that people voluntarily do what you want due to your personal influence".

This is understood that although it can be leading with power, which is a means by which coercion and repression generate a degree of obedience so that people act according to the orders imposed;This can serve in the short term, but as Hunter (1998) mentions, power is not chosen to abidedeteriorated relationships. On the other hand, the authority is won, and set to this, it is created with relationships, and ligates to reciprocal growth, mutual aid in the goals proposed by a leader, who;exercising authority in a group, will create ties that are linked to trust, reciprocal help and growth space.

The new leadership paradigms

One of the author’s axis points against leadership is the constructive vision of paradigms that denote a change to the structures of conservative organizations, which manifest hierarchical control guidelines, where a pyramid marks at the cusp to the “boss” who gives The orders, and under it, are its employees, or their working groups categorized by their functions and tasks to be developed, with that approach they are seen to those below as those who serve those above, the approaches that are generated with the New paradigms focus mainly to make a change of 180 ° of that pyramid, understand that the latter, that are the clients the functional basis of an organization, and are those who are granted a service, from the understanding that exercises leadership is to exercise service. This leads to the understanding that, the focus of a leader must go to organize and support the work they are developing in their work team to provide a service for customers, who are the axis of the service that must be provided.

Leadership models

Basically (Hunter, 1998) raises the relationship between service and authority, authority from the outstanding perspective of influencing someone without using power, since power wears out relationships, and what a leader really seeks is to generate and establish those those Trust relationships with your work team. And the service, which is one of the variables with which authority is created. These elements are only one of the elements that are required for the creation and implementation of leadership models. Although the author proposes base tools to build and polish this art, it must be understood that the construction of efficient leadership and according to the needs of the service can fail along the way, so frames it.

A leader, after applying everything he knows in order to influence others, can also fail at some point. Some people, either because of their own intentions, or for irreparable differences, we may ever influence them or get them to do in pursuit of the greater good.

With this, it is understood that it is not easy to be a good leader, that the construction of such a profile is of time, dedication and where the mood to change must be intrinsic;The leadership profile does not have a unique model to follow, it is created under parameters of good living and is polishing from errors.

Likewise, the leadership is denoted at the time of identifying who serves, who contributes and who does not to the work team by understanding that not all members of a team for efficient and provide the same commitment, that is where a leader must know how to identify these shortcomingsand correct them.

The visionary proposals of good leaders make people follow their ideals, since the masses do not follow a vision, a proposal;but a good leader, who proposes with passion to meet ideals that is proposed. 

Conclusions

Leadership is the function that will interrelate to people who belong to an organization, with a person who among the faculties, guides, directs a project with authority, understanding that it is an articulated work among several people, with many group ideas and objectives, which has a collective interest. In the development of this work we understood that a leader has the function of ordering these efforts and motivating the members of the working group, and encouraging the commitment of the members to be able to obtain together the best possible result.

It was also concluded that leadership can be exercised with mood, encouraging the team through coercion and repression towards compliance with goals. It is glimpsed that these means are effective in the short term, since over time a deterioration of interpersonal relationships is generated, making an inefficient and unproductive working group.

Therefore, the best way to lead a team is through authority, which must be exercised with a mood, service with the members of the work group and customers, who are considered in the equation as the basis of theBusiness, the service towards them must revolve around due attention, give the importance to the client that it deserves, place it as a work axis, but the vision to which the leader must direct is not only to provide a service to the service to theclients, but set to this to the group members, that everyone serves each other, understanding that the goals will not bring benefits for a single person, but that the remuneration will be for all. This is where the leader must motivate and encourage for efficient work.

Leaders can be determined by the group, they can choose it, or can also see who complies with the characteristics of a leader to perform said task which stand out for the way in which the working group is directed.