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Ayo Olashore

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The critical challenge of leadership status as outlined by Ayo Olashore provides a better

analysis that enables further understanding of the context of leadership. According to the writer,

even though Ayo asserts that leadership is not new concept, further research show that various

leadership skills emerge every time contributing to its uniqueness and its new context. Different

people understand leadership in a different manner (Northouse, 2007). Therefore, an older

context of leadership to one person is often a new context to another person creating the essence

of the uniqueness of leadership.

Secondly, the student refers to leadership as a positive influence on the people.

Contrarily, leadership entails both positive and negative leadership. The reference in the writings

is positive leadership which results in positive influence. In that sense, the student has limited,

his definition of leadership to the positive influence which is exclusive of bad leadership which

influences followers negatively. Furthermore, as the student was explaining the effective

communication concerning leadership, he failed to mention that there are some instances of poor

communication even though it leads to business failure (Mulec, 2006). In short, the company

only focuses on positive leadership without considering aspects of poor leadership.

Understanding the social aspect of leadership in acquisition, use and creation of

knowledge requires individualized learning process. As much as the writer postulates that such

aspects only require a leader, extensive research indicates that processing of such information

requires individuals together with the leaders (Allio, 2015). Most importantly, the organizational

influence does not only depend on a leader as the writer presumes, but also involves the ability of

an individual to learn with a focus on the organization’s past, beliefs and surroundings. Ideally,

leadership entails not just the leader alone, but also the followers. Moreover, the aspect of

innovativeness and unbiased feedback in non-measurable limiting its analysis of one of the

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qualities of leadership. In short, the student focused extensively on positive leadership without

addressing aspects of positive leadership.

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References

Allio, R. J. (2015). Good strategy makes good leaders. Strategy & Leadership, 43(5), 3-9.

Mulec, K. (2006). Positive professional leaders: aspects to consider in leadership

development. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 27(1), 66-81.

Northouse, P. G. (2007). Leadership: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE

Publications.