Leadership Assignment | The Learning Organization

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Introduction
Leadership is one of the growing concepts in every organization. This is because o its
role it plays in every activity in the workplace or anywhere else. It is a type of skill that a person
has within it to lead others in achieving their targets. However, a leader has been defined to
know the way they have to lead and also goes the way they or their team members decide or
shows the way to other members in the group to follow. Leader has to be courageous to accept
all type so failure and success. There are many more traits that a leader holds to be successful in
their leadership (Northouse, 2015). The paper discusses about different traits of the leadership
and the roles in plays while carrying out a successful leadership strategy in a decision making
process. Further, it analyses the role of a leader to support the saying that a leaders knows the
way, follows the way and shows the way to others.
Discussion
Leadership is not a simple context as it seems to be. It involves a lot of responsibilities
and understanding to carry out tasks appropriately and with proper understanding. A true leader
is always focused with their work and the path they are going. A true leader is said to have a
clear vision and knowledge about whatever they do. This is because they are the one that lead the
way for others and help them reach a correct place. Thus without knowing the destination it is
not possible for the leader to take others to that unknown journey. A leader has been the one that
lead others to the correct path that he/she has already experienced himself/herself after being in
that position (Antonakis & Day, 2017). Thus, it is important that a leader knows where they are
leading itself and the team. Moreover, along with knowing the destination it is also important for
them to know the path they will follow to reach there. It has been stated by Antonakis and Day,

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(2017) that this path should be the most effective and easiest path compared to other alternative
paths. However, the vision of the leader also changes overtime due to the changing situation and
the objective of the leader. However, even with the change in vision a leader has to be clear with
the new vision that is been created. As long as the leader knows the way through which it will
reach its goals or vision, there is no problem in altering the vision in the way he/she wants.
As people say that everyone loves to be on the position of a leader, however it is difficult
to stay in that position with the type of responsibilities they will have to handle. Moreover, the
position also calls for a lot of challenges to be taken by the person for handling its fellow
members, explaining the vision to the members, motivating them to take part effectively and
leading them to the right path (Zhang et al., 2015). A person failing to do this being a leader will
never become successful in that position. Moreover, knowing the vision clearly is solely the
responsibility of the leaders. This is because in that position there is no one to guide him/her and
provide them a road map to success. It can only be done by their knowledge, experience and far
sightedness (Heath, Martin & Shahisaman, 2016). Thus, a leader is said to move ahead with
surety of its action and with the assurance that his/her actions will only benefit the people
walking behind them.
Zuka (2016) in his paper explained that along with knowing the way, a leader must also
go the way they have decided. This is the most difficult part a leader has to follow in that role.
This is because directly others to follow the path are an easy task; however, itself moving on the
same path requires a lot of cautiousness. However, an effective leader is the one that himself lead
first and ask its team to follow him/her. This requires that they know the path that they will walk
is safe and appropriate. However, it is seen that most leaders fails to realize their actual role and
only be in the position for the sake of their name. This is not the quality of a real leader as a real