Whenever and wherever human beings are gathered together in large numbers, they need leadership. Even students needs their school prefect and school captain, Armies need generals, civilians needs Governments. Captains of industrials and intellectual leaders of thoughts as well. Men whether of the East or West, require to be lead and each group "throws up" its own leader in each succeeded generation. Whether in school-room, on a battlefield, or in a governmental deliberations, people who are neutral leaders and who are chosen to lead, Always have the same qualities of character and outlook.
In the first place, it is the personal qualities that counts for most, in other words, the personality. A leader, in any sphere, must be someone who can be look up to and respected. His personal judgment must be trusted and must be able to evoke love and warmth from those he leads. So the first quality of a leader is that he must have ability to win over men's hearts.
Secondly,he must have intellectual control over his followers and a mind that is capable of assimilating what is true and what is right and then of exerting this over others. It is useless, no matter what personal qualities or what intellectual powers a man may have, if he lack the initiative to lead and to rally. Men around him, he must also search for truth and have great powers of concentration.
Again,leader must possess mysterious thing we call "character" is meant strength of will, clarity of mind, tenacity and determination. In other words "character" is knowing what you want to do and being ruthlessly determine to do it.
Men and women will not follow a gloomy person! Therefore a kind sense of humor and a sense of optimism are two other essential qualities of a good leader. He must also not only be a good judge of thins and over events, but of people too, so that he can select good subordinates. He must also show and practice such virtues as self control, temperance and moderation, so that not only his body, but also his mind are also at their best, healthy and sharpened like finely tempered steel.
Whether a religious faith is necessary qualities of a leader is arguable. Many of our famous leaders today, are of different religious faith and some have no faith at all. But in any event, they are all driven and motivated by some inward force and some ideology. Nehru and Tito are examples of this. So too are Prophet Mohammed, Gouthama Buddha and Jesus Christ taken from history. These three where, if the numbers of their followers are anything to judge, very good leaders indeed and all of them had their own inward conviction and beliefs
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Great leader are born with all or some of the qualities that go to make for leadership, but this is not necessarily the case. Leadership can be trained and trained and many men who may have spack of the qualities needed, can develop and show great powers of leadership in satain solutions. A war Illustrate this point best of all.
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THE BAD LEADER:
Of which Hitler is striking example of a bad leader because it is possible to have all qualities of a leadership without the important one of all. This is moral lesson of right and wrong and the right king of "love" which is emphasize in many of the world's great religions. This is true not only of international figures. The "gangs" of youths, typical of both East and West, whose members are led to violence and lawless are invariable led and inspired by leaders without a moral sense of right and wrong.
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THE REAL LEADER :
Do men follow him? The answer will be "yes: if, combined with strength of character, the ability to invoke love, a clear brain and a fair minded outlook, he also has knowledge and respect for truth, honesty and fair Play, such a man surely possesses the park of leadership and men will look up to him and follow him.
Nelson Mandele is example of such leader.
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