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According to Cambridge Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary, leadership is the set of characteristics that make a good
leader. Meaning that leadership is occurred by the combination of several
characteristics so that a leader can applied it in order to be a good leader
for his/her organization. Leadership:
The capacity and will to rally people to a common purpose together with the
character that inspires confidence and trust (Field Marshal Montgomery). The supporter of the idea that characteristic is a base for a good
leader is a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith, he says that “All of the great
leaders have had one characteristic in common; it was the willingness to
confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This,
and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
Rivai (2004) states that leadership is a process of affecting or
giving model to the followers through communication process for attempting the
organization’s goals/objectives. While Tannenbaum, Weschler & Massarik
define leadership as interpersonal influence, exercised in a situation, and
directed, through the communication process, toward the attainment of a
specified goal or goals. Leadership may be considered as the process (act) of
influencing the activities of an organized group in its efforts toward goal
setting and goal achievement. (Stogdill, 1950). Another idea is given by Rauch
& Behling, leadership is defined as the process of influencing the
activities of an organized group toward goal achievement. To sum up, goal,
objectives and achievement is a requisite part of leadership that cannot be separated.
A leader will get difficulties in handling his/her organization if there is no
a specific purposes.
From definitions above, it can be said that leadership is a process
that requires some skills in order to give instructions for the followers to
achieving the organization’s goals, objectives and purposes.
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