Leadership

Ali Hikmat
Leadership

Leadership is not an easy task to be possible for every individual. Every one is eager and have desire to be a leader and be loved by people. But it is a dream rather than reality. A good leadership, require facts like; awareness of community situation, social structure, drawing public attention and creating new ideas.

First, leadership is a mutual process between leader and society. Basically a leader must be profoundly aware of social behavior, social believe and social wants. Generally it helps a leader to get relevant decision about its affairs. For example, “Khalq and Parcham” were two political parties supporting by Union Soviet, Impatiently they wanted to compare their objectives in Afghanistan, but they had not adequate information about Afghan’s society. Soon they faced with strong collation, eventually ended by collapsing these two parties.

Secondly, knowing about social structure is one of the important elements of leaders’ successfulness. The area which he/she want to be leader, perhaps there are different ethic groups with various demands. It is so significant for a leader to be acceptable for all. On the other hand, all people in the society are not the same level or the same rank of economy, knowledge, idea or other privileges. Everywhere, society is consisting of noble, middle class and lower class. The successful leader is the one who is ideal for all social class in a society.

Thirdly, a leader should have the skill to draw public attention. It is not simple which every individual have such a skill to make public attention. A question come to our mind how can a leader attract public attentions? It is obvious; a leader should be hard working. And without giving scarifies victory is impossible, so leader must be ready to accept risks. Also a leader should be generous and sociable to build relation with every individual. In addition, charisma is one of the original elements of leadership. If a leader has such power or skill, it will help the leader to influence on public emotions. For example, the leader of Pakistan, “Mohammad Ali Junah” was a leader that he had charismatic power and he was an ideal leader for Pakistan’s people.

Finally, a leader should have specific plan and managed- procedure for his/her activities. Always leader should be initiator of new positive changes in the area which he/ she is working. For instance, Dr. Martin Luther king” was the one who could create a new positive idea among his followers. And regarding to leadership Nilsson Mandela and Dr. Luther King were the patterns of public leaders and they could bring the change in history of the world.

In summary, leadership is a complicated responsibility. It required to things like; awareness of community condition, knowing of social structure, making public attention and creating positive idea. Also leadership has some risks like; facing with criticizing, gossips, and sometimes leaders are torturing. So, it need more strength and patient .