Personal Leadership Philosophy

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Running head: PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
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PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
AUTHENTICATE LEADERSHIP
Description of the theory
This is one of the most fundamental leadership styles that have been able to gain much
popularity across various populations and organizations that are working hard towards providing
a competitive advantage in this modern world. Moreover, it is a type of management style that
involves quite a number of individuals who are capable of acting in real, genuine and sincere
manner that is very much true to the kind of personalities that they really are (Seidle, Fernandez,
& Perry, 2016). Quite a number of proponents attached to authentic leadership have been able to
postulate that this type of leadership is among the best positioned with an intention of inspiring
trust, loyalty together with a strong performance from different types of employees across
different types of organizations. However, issues pertaining authentic leadership were able to
come to the fore front of management studies in the past few years that was strongly
accompanied by the publications of quite a number of quite a number of research papers, articles
and even books (Sendjaya et al., 2016). This leadership style strongly believes in various issues
that are attached to authenticity that can be easily implemented by a given type of leader who is
capable of understanding what is taking place in relation to the entire situation. There are quite a
number of reasons as to why I am capable of strongly relating to this form of leadership style.
One of the major reasons as to why I relate to this leadership model is simply because I have
been able to totally reject the idea that I have to adopt a certain persona that is totally different
from my own. At the same time, I also relate to it simply because I don’t believe that my
professional self is different than my personal or even private self (Tang, Kwan, Zhang & Zhu,
2016). For quite a long time now, my major goals have always been focused towards delivering