Leadership in the Modern Era: Avoiding Power Corruption

This essay delves into the multifaceted nature of leadership, emphasizing the critical importance of leaders avoiding corruption to manage worldly affairs fairly. It examines how power can corrupt leaders, drawing on leadership theories and secondary data. The essay explores how individuals, from childhood, experience and navigate power dynamics, and how leaders can be tempted by the control it offers. It discusses the addictive nature of power and its impact on a leader's identity, emphasizing that leaders must prioritize moral values, principles, and the welfare of others to avoid corruption. The essay highlights the importance of ethical leadership and the potential for power to undermine a leader's character. It references Kevin Kruse's definition of leadership as social influence and emphasizes the need for leaders to influence through collaboration and cooperation. Various strategies and ideas on how a leader can avoid corruption are discussed.

Overview
This paper focusses on the nature of leadership in an elaborative way. Also the paper highlights
that how a leader can avoid being corrupted by power. It is very important for a leader to get free
form corruption as it will lead the leader to manage all the worldly affairs fairly. In order to
complete this paper, secondary data has been referred.
Given your knowledge of leadership theories, discuss how can a leader avoid being
corrupted by power?
Introduction
‘The most challenging issue for a leader in power is not that how to attain their aims and
objectives, their motives as they have the authority to do this now but, it is to maintain
their humanity, maintain their civic ethics and not fall into the clutches of corruption’.
Talking of power, it is introduced to the person in his early days of life in this world when, as
kids, they realize that they have the ability to control their parents and elders through actions
ranging from fluttering eyelashes for screaming fits and this makes them feel happy as well as
good when they get what they cried for. This power game, of being under the power of others
and finding one's own power, continues throughout individual’s life. The person finds out how
one gain or advances power, like, for instance, bending the rules while playing games. At the
initial stage of the business, etc., in endeavours for seeking power, people may have good
intention like seeking to build the organization, help others succeed, serve the community and so
on (Bendahan et al., 2015). In due course of time, with this sound purpose, they excuse
themselves for small rashness and injudiciousness, as the minor means is clearly worth meeting
the greater ends. Many offbeat leaders start out their work this way, doing good and helping
others. But before reaching the desired goal and covering the long journey, the power of control

goes to their head as they are lured by the capable inclination it wraps them. Power is truly
tempting, not just on the grounds that it is the methods by which one can get what he or she
needs, yet additionally in light of the fact that it gives one the certainty that accompanies this
learning. Enchantment is frequently a step by step propelling procedure. It comes to happen from
one little advance at any given moment, undetectable and for the most part, activities are
supported with contemplations, for example, 'simply this once' or 'it's essential'.
McClelland portrays the requirement for control as one of the fundamental necessities that we
look for throughout everyday life. By control, as principal implies, the feeling of control is
accomplished. Aside from this, it can likewise assume a noteworthy part in boosting our feeling
of character significantly. Power is addictive to the point that sooner or later, we start to feel that
power is a piece of us, a piece of our internal identity, that we are intense individuals, and that
losing it would be something parallel to a personality emergency, where we never again know
who we truly are. Thusly, or path playing to one's more significant needs, control winds up
enticing, pulling in us. Right, when people respect us and treat us like heavenly creatures, by
then it is excessively basic, making it impossible to believe them, it gives a lovely vibe and it
winds up less demanding to accept that we truly are unrivalled. Here, the point that we skip is,
realizing that we are in awe of the power, not the inner person. This is the reason, probably,
many of the company managers once retired, get confounded by the lack of respect to which they
had become accustomed. The 'mystery of energy' depicts how individuals need and utilize
social aptitudes to pick up places of energy, yet when they achieve that position they appear to
overlook how to be affable and liberal to other individuals. One explanation behind this is the
general population who are in control meet numerous other people who need something from
them and their position needing the effective individual to utilize his/her energy for some

specific reason to profit them. Numerous a periods, they may simply need to loll in the reflected
transcendence. In any case, the intense individual feels secluded. Another purpose of getting to
be uncivil is that the individual is normally, initially that way, however, is gifted at seeming, by
all accounts, to be thoughtful, to be prudent. They, in this way, utilized their abilities in transit
up, and when they have 'made it'; they fall again into their more genuine, less kind self. In this
way, on one side, it is conceivable that power undermines a man, yet on the opposite side, it is
likewise conceivable that a few people have a characteristic slant to look for control since they
themselves are degenerate on the most fundamental level.
This power play way is very much tempted towards, when it comes to, leaders and the history is
a witness to it. An incredible pioneer is somebody who moves others to follow in their
illustration – not regarding following charges but rather attempting their best constantly while
honing great Excellency or virtues. A leader can avoid being corrupted by the power by
following their moral values, principles, and aim of the welfare of all. If a leader is ready to
sacrifice his personal interest then he can be able to avoid being corrupted by the power. But if a
leader is engaged in achieving his own personal goals then power can overpower him and
corrupt him.
Kevin Kruse, an entrepreneur, writes that Leadership is considered as the process of a
social influence so that it will maximize the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a
goal." In simple meaning, incredible pioneers or leader don't egotistically force their energy
however rather impact others through co-activity and beneficial coordinated effort to satisfy
particular objectives. So as to keep control from adulterating one's character, administration
abilities, and general gathering, a few thoughts have been shared by different savants,
sociologists, and different masterminds.