Entrepreneurship

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and strategy

Topic one leadership (concept and generalities)
• Section one: Leadership (concept and generalities)
• Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness,
courage and discipline. Reliance on intelligence alone results
rebelliousness. Exercise of humaneness alone results in weakness,
fixation on trust results in folly. Dependence on the strength of
courage results in violence. Excessive discipline and sternness in
command result in cruelty. When one has all five virtues together,
each appropriate to its function, then one can be a leader – Jia Lin,
Art of War (Book).
Sub-section one: Meaning of Leadership
• Why leadership?
• Leadership and management are roles that we assume every day we
don’t need think that it deals only with senior level leadership or
management.
• We lead and manage our families.
• We lead and manage ministries.
• We lead and manage our relationships and communities.
• Every one regardless of role plays the part of a leader and manager.
That’s why its important.
Sub-section two: Definition of leadership
• The action of leading a group of people or an organization.
OR
• Leadership is a process of social influence in which a person can enlist
the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common
task.
Section-two: (Difference between leadership
and management, and role of a leader.)
Sub section one (Leadership and Management)
Management Leadership

Management is the process of planning, Leadership is the ability or quality to

organizing, implementing, coordinating motivate and inspire others to achieve a
and controlling activities. desirable goal.

Managers have people who work for Leaders have people follow them.
them.
Management is a PROCESS. Leadership is a QUALITY

Bottom line: Leadership and management are two different terminologies, they must go hand in
hand, but they are necessarily linked and complementary.
Role of a Leader
• Innovates
• Develop
• Focus on people
• Inspires trust
• Long range perspective
• Ask what and why
• Originates
• Eye on the horizon
• Challenge the status que
• Does the right thing “warren Bennis”
Sub-section two (skills or traits of an effective
Leader, and how to become an effective leader)
• Honesty and integrity- crucial to get people to believe and buy into
the vision and goals.
• Vision- ability to know where your are, where your want to go and
chart a path for the future.
• Superior judgment- able to make the right decision.
• Inspiration- able to inspire a team and ensure that they understand
their role in the bigger picture.
• Superior communication skills- able to keep team informed about
where they are, where they are heading and roadblocks along the
way.
Becoming an effective leader (Emulate the traits or qualities of an effective leader)

• Be open, honest and full of integrity.

• Maintain a vision
• Exercise superior judgment
• Inspire people around you
• Have a bias for action
• Develop superior communication skill