We all have experienced leadership from our early childhood in our families, through friendships, social, recreational and sports activities, elementary school to higher education, and at the work place, and politics/ government. We all recognize leadership in other people and often in ourselves. Leadership has become a key issue in both the private and public sectors. In government, global corporations and small businesses alike, the leadership role is becoming more demanding, more open to scrutiny and more difficult. While there is still little consensus on what counts as leadership, whether it can be taught or is it just inherited one thing is true the need for excellence in management and leadership in partly fuelled by a breakdown in confidence in current leadership. According former US presidential candidate Ross Perot,
‘The principles of leadership are timeless because, in a rapidly changing world, human nature remains a constant’ (Perot, 2000).
When I returned to South Korea from school in Australian in 1999 I got a job as a sales representative for a fabric company. I soon noticed that I had a trouble with one of my co-works. But I did not know why? Well as time went on I soon discovered that she had been working there for 9 years as a records clerk and that she wanted the job that I had gotten. She did what she could to undermine me. I feel that she failed herself and her supervisors failed her. She would never speak up and tell her leaders what her long term plans were. I would also say that her managers were not good leaders because they never asked her what she wanted the manager was not concerned about her. It seemed that no one cared. They continued to increase here work load and did not give her time to increase her knowledge of other job ...