Leadership Traits, Personality Traits, and Effective Leadership
Leadership traits are subset of the personality traits (Zaccaro, 2007). Personality traits and characteristics are defined by many scholars, for example, as high energy level and stress tolerance, self-confidence, internal control orientation, emotional maturity and integrity, socialized power motivation, and low need for affiliation (Yukl, George, & Jones, 2010) and cognitive abilities, problem solving orientation, and high intelligence (Zaccaro, 2007), and competencies, a


Relationship Between Leaders and Followers: A Brief Discussion
Many people make mistake to separate leaders and followers. I think that no matter what position one has within an organization, he/she is playing a follower’s role to support someone else. Great leaders of an organization are following the profitable goals of their stakeholders. For a survival business, followers need to be effective and supportive for their leaders to be successful. Nevertheless, followers are more effective if they consider themselves active and indepe