What is the leadership or quality of a leader? First of all, I am going to express of the leadership of a leader who performs his activities in different way. Leadership is an important function of management which helps to maximize efficiency for a society and people, to overcome all problems to come on the community, by guiding a proper way related to its condition and to achieve organizational goals and Leadership is a function which is important at all levels of management. Therefore it is so necessary for an association to have a leader so that it is managed and given a suitable guidance.
Now I would like to mention about how to be a good leader and I will explain about my topic with different types of question regarding to it. What is the leader? Leader is the person who leads or commands a group, organization or county, who deploys his effort and energy for a community. He absorbs his mind as well as body in the people who follow him. There are various kind of leaders such as economic leader, political leader, social leader, religious leader and so on, who are controlling and handling countries, towns, provinces, villages, and diverse organizations. In short, there are only two leaders as follows;
a. 1. Material leader
b. 2. Spiritual leader
The Material leader relates to those who lead worldly matters like a sociality, economy, and politic, etc. The spiritual leader refers to those who lead and take reasonability on its respective religions and who organizes to promote peace and harmony among its members and guides to realize enlightenment and to live a life that is in agreement with and contributes to their religious objectives. What is a good leader? In this world, every one can be a leader but hard to be a good and right leader because a leader must give up his own benefits and do for people’s happiness and advantages in the righteous system. In the Singalovadasutta, The Lord Buddha mentioned that there are six kinds of duty of a Leader. They are;
1. 1. He must be more industrious than other.
2. 2. He must be vigilant in order to lead others.
3. 3. He must be kind to his subordinates.
4. 4. He must be patient with and forgive others.
5. 5. He must be considerate and reasonable whatever he does.
6. 6. He must be wise and foresighted in doing things.
Those are duties to must be performed by a leader on his subordinates and group. If a leader does the above six obligations, he can lead his people easily and peacefully and association and he will be regarded by his people that he is a good leader.
What are the basic qualities of a good Leader? To become a good leader, a leader needs to have qualifies and qualities such as right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration to achieve in his leadership and he has to use them practically and skillfully. Right view is the beginning. It simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realise truth on every situation. Right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas.
While right view refers to the cognitive aspect of wisdom, right thought refers to the volitional aspect. Right thought can be described best as commitment to ethical and mental self-improvement. Right speech is the first principle of ethical conduct. Ethical conduct is viewed as a guideline to moral discipline, which supports the other principles. This aspect is not self-sufficient, however, essential, because mental purification can only be achieved through the cultivation of ethical conduct and a leader should have a good speech.
The second ethical principle, right action, involves the body as natural means of expression, as it refers to deeds that involve bodily actions. Unwholesome actions lead to unsound states of mind, while wholesome actions lead to sound states of mind. Right livelihood means that a leader should earn one's living in a righteous way and that wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. Right effort can be seen as a prerequisite for the other principles of the path. Without effort, which is in itself an act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided effort distracts the mind from its task. Right mindfulness is the controlled and perfected faculty of cognition. It is the mental ability to see things as they are, with clear consciousness. Right concentration, refers to the development of a mental force that occurs in natural consciousness.
