Your People Do Not Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care

A common query, “what is leadership and what makes a good leader” remains boundary less and without common acceptance. From Plato and Socrates, the Greek philosophers in the past to present day leaders and organizations, leadership has intrigued people and has been a field of interest because people have perceived leadership in different ways; based on beliefs, knowledge, experience, training, expectations. Stogdill posited arriving at a single common universally acceptable definition on leadership does not seem to be a possibility and therefore we will continue to have a number of definitions as different people continue with their attempts to understand, explore and define leadership (Stogdil, 1974)! Multi-dimensional complexity of this subject has therefore led to evolution of different approaches, theories and concepts. P G North house observes that rate of change is outpacing leaders" ability to learn and unlearn (Northhouse, 2013). Despite expansive research, J. C. Rost also recommended that it is difficult to come up with a common definition for leadership (Rost, 1991).