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Signature Qualification CA that Empowers to Lead PAKISTAN Purpose Modern World An essential requirement for In terms of modern business leadership is personal vision – the world, leadership has become very ability to visualise the goal as an important to achieve the objectives accomplished fact; a thing already of the business or organisation. achieved. Visionaries such as American I.T entrepreneur Steve Jobs have led “The very essence of leadership is the companies to the forefront of that you have to have vision. You innovation and success and created can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” business empires from scratch. – Theodore M. Hesbugh. But leadership is not required only at the topmost level but at every A leader does not stumble to the level of the organisation to run any goal of the group, neither does he business successfully. That is why a find it by trial and error; he/she lot of emphasis is given to develop is a visionary who knows the path A leader does leadership in the business managers leading to the objective. Depending in order to lead the company to objective may be to produce a not stumble success. on the situation, the purpose or timely report or leading a country Whether the leadership is innate or but until and unless the leader to the goal can be developed is also a question has a vision of how to achieve the asked repetitively. Whether one is a objective, he/she will lead the group of the group, born leader or one can be groomed to failure. and trained as a leader is a debatable neither does topic. Nevertheless, most people Group of People are convinced that leadership at the grass root level and especially in To be a leader, one must have he find it the business world can be learned followers. To have followers, one and improved upon. You can find a leader commands authority by trial and a lot of gurus out there whose sole must have their trust. Sometimes vocation is to train and develop by position, in which case the leadership in business. There are followers have no choice but error; he/she resources available to develop to follow the orders. But a true leadership qualities. leader is the one who commands is a visionary respect and trust among his/her If you ask my opinion, I am a bit because of authority but because who knows on both sides. Although there are followers and they follow not many skills which can be learned the path a leader, but one needs to have a of the leader’s qualities. over time and anyone can become Such trust is won by the leader spark which can be developed into through his/her vision, ability to leading to fire. In other words, people can lead the group and personal qualities become a leader but great leaders such as honesty, truthfulness and the objective. are those who have innate qualities objectiveness. which they groom to become great 8 The Pakistan Accountant April - June 2016