Qualities and Challenges of Effective Leadership

The assignment provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of a leader, discussing both positive and negative qualities. It highlights the importance of honesty, confidence, communication skills, creativity, and inspiring others in effective leadership. The document also explores challenges such as lack of focus, discipline, and awareness of one's own limitations.

Running head: ROLE OF A LEADER
Role of a leader
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A good leader should have some qualities like honesty, confidence, good communication
skills, creativity, inspiring others and several other factors (Cashman 2017). It is said that the
best quality of a leader is honesty. The leader should always be honest so that the followers also
get inspiration from him to be honest which would improve the team work. He should have the
confidence to make his own decisions and show some boldness to achieve respect from his
subordinates. The leader should have the ability to inspire others by setting positive examples.
There are also bad qualities of a leader that I have known through my experiences. Some
leaders are there who has lack of focus. Leadership is more about priority and less about balance
(Amanchukwu, Stanley and Ololube 2015). It is important to be disciplined so that he can
encourage his followers to be disciplined. There are some leaders who are not aware of their lack
of information. Some leaders are even there who does not care about the opinion of his followers
which is considered as a negative quality.
I have come across with several leaders in my education life as well as professional life
who have both positive and negative qualities. One of the instances that I want to give regarding
a leader is that in my MBA class we were given a project to do in a team. The leader of that team
was chosen by me and my team mates because we thought that he would lead our group in a well
coordinated manner but later on we realized that he has some bad qualities like over confidence
and he used o think that he knows everything and did not even bother to take opinion from others
which led our project to downfall.

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References
Amanchukwu, R.N., Stanley, G.J. and Ololube, N.P., 2015. A review of leadership theories,
principles and styles and their relevance to educational management. Management, 5(1), pp.6-14.
Cashman, K., 2017. Leadership from the inside out: Becoming a leader for life. Berrett-Koehler
Publishers.