LEADERSHIP IN PERSPECTIVE

Leadership in Perspective is a book for everyone to read or to study. By reading this preview, you will read the entire book, and in the process, you will learn and become a better leader-ready to carry the burdens of society and institutions with grace and love.The book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, so that they can attain a solid foundation of the theories, styles, and application of the principles of leadership. The book is also ideal, as an energizer, for individuals who are in leadership, especially education leaders in the challenging and changing time in education leadership. It is written in a simple language, and in a straightforward style.As it is now obvious to many people, leadership is a simple but complex phenomenon that has existed in society, in every race or tribe, and in every culture or politics for a very long time. Beginning with families as units of society, leadership has never lacked, and its true intention has always been for the service of the greatest good of all in society. But until now, the deplorable state of leadership in education and in communities, influenced by tribe, race, and hatred cannot be underestimated. Are we primarily evil that we are in the process to implode?Regardless of the triumphs and setbacks of leadership in democratic, autocratic, tribal, religious, monarch, and racist societies, the basic intentions and tenets of leadership have always been to harmonize the needs of society and to safeguard the lives of all living in that society. Depending on the leaders’ intelligence and whether they have the nature of good in themselves, there arises a leadership that is good and exemplary or extremely toxic, evil, and destructive.Good leaders want every citizen and their neighbors to enjoy the dividends of society and the products of creation. Destructive leaders are corrupt, and they are, in fact, ignorant of what they ought to do or abstain from doing. They set communities into conflict as a political calculation for them to remain in power. They create environments of fear and hatred in communities or institutions. They surround themselves with people who only listen to them. Corrupt leaders take greater share of the good things and a lesser of the burdens and troubles that they create. Because of these actions, corrupt leaders are unequal, and they can drive communities, institutions, or societies into tribal, religious, or racial conflicts.Through this sort of error, corrupt leaders lack the achievement of moral goodness. Since being unjust is a voluntary choice, it elicits blame and conviction.