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Over the years, the concept of leadership has gained unparallel significance in management literature. Though pivotal role of a leader has never been ignored in military organisations; they are the profit-oriented, competition-driven business organisations and business schools, which have given it a new meaning. It is being argued that what the contemporary organisations need, especially at the top and middle-level management, are leaders, not merely managers. The maxim of Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things,” also points toward this trend. Throughout the human history, leaders have always played a vital role in everyday state of affairs. Be it in ancient China during the time of Sun Tzu, in Egypt, when prophet Yusuf (PBUH) was a prominent administrator, or more recently, in the Indian subcontinent during the times of Jinnah and Gandhi; leaders have always outlived their natural lives through their historic deeds. It is, therefore, quite natural for most of us to ponder about what is leadership; who are leaders and how they become so, and whether everyone, who aspires so, can also become a leader? In this paper, I shall make an endeavour to find answers to these questions and to learn the principles, whose application might make many of us leaders of unmatching acumen, vision and inspirational power.
Javed Iqbal Shah. (2008) Learning the Basics of Leading from Teaching of Islam, The Dialogue, Volume 3, Issue 3.
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