Leadership is a way of motivating and influencing a group of people to achieve common goals. Leadership is vital in every organization because it helps create an organization with a purpose through identifying the way ahead and steering others towards attainment of agreed objectives. The leaders make others want to do something that should be done for the progress of the organization.

In this world of rapid change, the leader must be out in front to encourage change and growth and to show the way to bring it about. It is said that the heart of success in every organization’s vision is on how leaders influence their group to give their best to the attainment of corporate goals. Technological investment of the company is futile if the people are not effectively led and sufficiently motivated to challenge organizational change and development. The organization’s readiness for technological growth must be complemented with human resource readiness. The leaders’ influence is then determined by how the human resources interpret and react to events and changes, and the degree of their support and cooperation.

The leaders also influence their people to align their individual goals within that of the organization’s vision. The ability to persuade others to seek defined objectives enthusiastically is but a skill possessed only by effective leaders.