On Leadership_领导的品质与责任_英文.docVIP

On Leadership Thousands of years of people’s civilization tells us that when we want to do something successfully, we always follow a person or some person we call leaders or leadership. Every field has its leaders. Roosevelts New Deal saved the American’s capitalism; Steam engine invented by James Watt promoted the first industrial revolution and by following the Marxism and communism, many countries had won the World War II and developed to be an economic giant. Those are the examples of successful leadership in the history, but what the definition of the today’s leaders or leadership and the skills they need for tomorrow’s competition in which everything develops rapidly. The oxford advanced learner’s English –Chinese dictionary① gives us two items about its definition. Firstly, a leader is a person who leads a group of people, especially the head of a country, an organization, etc. Secondly, a leader is a person or a thing that is the best, or in first place in a race, business, and etc. From the two items of the definition, we can see that the definition talks about the two important factors of leadership——what kind of organization that a leader works in and what kind of skills for leadership to be the best. That means the leadership has to realize team responsibilities and characteristics or skills so that the leadership could lead their team to survive from the fierce competition and to be a winner. Therefore, I want to talk the three questions of the leadership by analysis of basic skills and responsibilities. The three questions are: 1, what is the direction in which the leaders of tomorrow should be pushing cultural evolution to prepare for the surprises of tomorrow? 2, what sort of characteristics and skills must a leader have to perceive the needs of tomorrow and to implement the change needed to survive? 3, what are the implications for the selection and development of future leaders? A, the basic skills The basic skills are very important because every