Why Do We Need Leaders?

In an earlier blog I gave my opinion on what I thought leadership was and who can be a leader and why we need leaders. In subsequent blogs I gave what others have said about leadership. Today I give you three others opinion on why we need leadership.

From MGR Consulting:

The leader’s primary role is to envision an outcome then enable and empower his or her team to achieve that vision. Strategic thinking enables the leader to articulate the vision.

As Ralph Nader said,

"The function of leadership is to produce more

leaders, not more followers.”

In the highly competitive and highly volatile world we live in, those with great leaders will do great things. Those with ineffective leaders will flounder. Great leaders have created every great society.

From John P. Kotter on MSN News:

Leadership is required for mobilising people to handle challenging times. In a world that has no challenges, things are fine and you don't require leaders. In such a world you don't need to mobilise people for handling any crisis. But unfortunately in our world we have huge number of challenges in the government, non profit and business sectors; we have many challenges in the developing and the developed world.
From Leaders Direct

Leaders, like other heroes, are often good role models - they help us learn how to meet our own goals and function independently. Even the most confident need to benchmark themselves against those who seem better at them at something. As in sports, no one would really excel if there was no one to beat. Ideally, we want a balance of independent confidence and role models to learn from.

We need leaders to guide and direct. We need leaders to inspire and motivate. We need leaders to be role models and those we can aspire to be. Without leaders we would be lost. What do you think?