FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WHAT ACTUALLY MAKES A GREAT BLACK LEADER?
After reading several blog posts and commentary criticizing, if not lambasting, the leadership qualities of Minister Farrakhan or the lack thereof, and who basically imply that he’s a "fake" leader, I thought I would began a thread, asking, "what do you consider a leader to be?" And when you answer this question, I would like for you to consider our present-day circumstances, past leadership, and what we actually desire as our future objectives.
Does a leader actually have to prove his worth by leading the people within a particular campaign or movement accomplishing various objectives and goals?
Does there have to be some concrete evidence of his leadership?
Do they have to lead us from one definitive point to another to fit the definition, as someone who has led some group of people actually somewhere (which in our case would be the Diasporan masses)?
Being that so many of our extraordinary “leaders” greatest accomplishments were their ability to excite, heighten the awareness of, and incite the Black masses, where they definitively leaders or solely great orators?
WHAT MAKES A GREAT BLACK OR AFRICAN LEADER?
OR ANY TYPE OF REAL LEADERSHIP...
Does a leader actually have to prove his worth by leading the people within a particular campaign or movement accomplishing various objectives and goals?
Does there have to be some concrete evidence of his leadership?
Do they have to lead us from one definitive point to another to fit the definition, as someone who has led some group of people actually somewhere (which in our case would be the Diasporan masses)?
Being that so many of our extraordinary “leaders” greatest accomplishments were their ability to excite, heighten the awareness of, and incite the Black masses, where they definitively leaders or solely great orators?
WHAT MAKES A GREAT BLACK OR AFRICAN LEADER?
OR ANY TYPE OF REAL LEADERSHIP...
Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia, just as a reference point…
Leadership
Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task".[1] Definitions inclusive of nature of leadership have also emerged. Alan Keith of Genentech states that, "Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen." According to Ken "SKC" Ogbonnia, "effective leadership is the ability to successfully integrate and maximize available resources within the internal and external environment for the attainment of organizational or societal goals."