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How Leadership Can be Transformed

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of skills and personality traits are all apparent. Peter Drucker offers an insight to leadership in the late twentieth century and their required qualities. He states that a leader can  not be defined by present personality types, a theory which was at loggerheads to scientific management techniques. The main trait, he believes, is that a leader has followers, sets examples,  has responsibilities and therefore will get results (Drucker in Hesselbeinet al, 1997). He further goes on to recognise that a leader will usually submit themselves to a mirror test, continually  judging themselves, asking is the person they see in the mirror every morning the person they want to be (Drucker in Hesselbeinet al, 1997). Charles Handy, another recognised management Guru  cites the short-sightedness of todays management, with a constant preoccupation with the enrichment of the shareholders (Hesselbeinet al, 1997). He argues that whilst businesses dont have a greater goal or  cause then it will not see any remarkable leaders, with management remaining in mediocrity (Hesselbeinet al, 1997). In looking at a situation where there is a weak leader, such as  the head of a pharmaceutical department, where there are no strong management skills such as people management, and the personal skills are also missing then two main features of effective  leadership are missing. Yuki (1989, quoted in Longest et al, 2000) states that leadership is a mixture of the many models, with the quality influenced by the leadership skills,  personality traits and also the situational variables, being reflective and also influencing the leadership success. Therefore, it may be argued that where only one element is missing, others may be  compensating. For example, a leader with poor skills may employee those with the correct supervisors that compensate the weaknesses. However, in the situation outlined with the pharmacist there is also