Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Defining Leadership

Leadership is a great quality and every great organizational success besides other factors owes its credit to the leader who led it to glory. dradalat@gmail.com
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/ISLAMIC_LEADERSHIP_PRINCIPLES.html
The Qur'an says: "I am going to make you Imam for the people." (Surah al Baqarah 2:124). Our contention that Prophethood is guidance and Imamat is leadership has been derived from the Quran, which says: "The Messenger has only to convey the message of Allah." (Surah al Maidah 5:99) But we know that the duty of an Imam is to supervise, to lead and to take care of those who accept his leadership.
http://www.al-islam.org/universe/31.htm
Leadership was much earlier defined as an interactive process, in terms of leader-group relationships and interactions. Later as that behaviour of an individual, this initiates change in the goals, objectives, configurations, procedures, inputs, processes and ultimately the outputs of social system (Lipham, et al 1974). This definition takes into account effectiveness and efficiency and hence leadership is therefore dynamic.

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