"Leadership is not magnetic
personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making
friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a
person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a
higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal
limitations." — Peter F. Drucker
One day when I was reading newspaper,
my elder son asked me the correct definition of leadership as he was confused
with too many definitions on leadership in search engines. I told him that
there is no fixed definition on leadership as every management thinker comes
out with his own definition. Additionally, if you hit search engine on terms
‘leaders’ and ‘leadership’ you get half a billion hits, and there are so many
definitions on leadership. Some management thinkers say that leadership is all
about example. Some management thinkers define leadership is all about ethics. Likewise,
there are plenty of definitions on leadership. Finally, I shared my definition
of leadership as follows:
Leadership is not about giving fiery
speeches. Leadership is not about winning people. On the other hand, leadership
is about being passionate about people, setting vision, walking the talk, inspiring
people to come together on a platform to build a team, making decisions,
clarifying their concerns, motivating them, and aligning their energies and
efforts as per organizational goals and objectives to achieve organizational
excellence and effectiveness.
Then my younger son who was sitting beside
him asked me the actual definition of thought leadership. I found his question
more interesting and challenging to respond as there is no fixed definition on
thought leadership also. I shared with
him the definition of thought leadership as follows:
Thought leaders are experts with amazing
ideas and insights on their industries and areas. They have wealth of knowledge
and experience. Those who possess and share
it with others excel as thought leaders. Thought leaders are the intellectual
capitals who rise from the position of knowledge workers. The top politicians
and leaders approach thought leaders for intellectual inputs and ideas. For
instance, Warren Bennis consulted American presidents as a thought leader. Thought
leadership is defined as the process of engaging thought leaders to create
knowledge, grow knowledge, and share knowledge with others for the benefit of
society. It was Peter Drucker, the
father of modern management who coined the concept of knowledge workers. He rightly
remarked, “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly,
or it vanishes.”
The knowledge workers and thought
leaders are going to rule the world as they are the true human capital to build
a better world as the world is rapidly shifting from manufacturing sectors to services
sectors.
“The most important, and indeed the
truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold
increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing. The most
important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is
similarly to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge
worker.” - Peter F. Drucker
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