LEADERSHIP FROM AN EFFICIENCY PERSPECTIVE

Greetings and welcome dear readers of this prestigious platform, this publication is aimed at a term that is handled at the institutional level and has been studied throughout our history, I speak of leadership.

As a conceptual contribution it has been studied since the time of Aristotle and nowadays we hear phrases such as "leaders are born, not made", "some are born to command and others to obey" and it is also very popular to hear "he who does not know how to command is made to obey".

From the psychological perspective, leadership according to Buile (2016), "are all those qualities and skills that an individual develops to influence the behavior of people individually or collectively". These qualities are related to the ability to manage, take initiatives, encourage and motivate others, as well as to evaluate the different aspects of institutional order.

In this sense, it can be established that leadership is a relationship of influence that can be generated between the different social areas of an individual, so that in order to understand the functioning of leadership in human behavior, we will approach it from the administrative component.

In this scenario, it is valid to perceive good leaders with motivation, evaluation and direction capabilities over their people, as well as we can also find scenarios where the abuse of power, arrogance, corruption, are aspects that are developed by those people who assume important positions in a company or a country.

In one way or another, both scenarios are forms of leadership, the first we consider as positive due to the qualities that are driven and the second as negative, in this category would enter the great dictators of our history, where their power and authority allowed them to assume the presidency of a country and stay in power for long periods of time.

Given the above scenarios, we realize that in both processes there is an influence on others, which is the premise that gives entry to the formation of the leaders we know today. However, the idea of writing this publication is aimed at evaluating the qualities of efficient leaders that allow us to take hold of these qualities and the ability to influence others.

Thus, an effective or efficient leader is one who has the ability to generate a holistic vision of the future, assuming a strategy that allows to achieve real changes in the behavior of people, in the same way they take advantage of the power obtained in function of their position, to encourage and value the work of their followers, making them feel important and a strong pillar within the working group.

It allows the development and fluidity of the work, since it manages and provides the necessary resources that allow to obtain the success, has the ability to value the effort, so it is necessary to learn to reward the effort that each participant of the working group performs.

In other words, a true leader is one who takes advantage of his power and uses it as a vehicle to obtain good results and maintain an optimal state of mind in an organization, work group, family or company.

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[2] Delgado Torres, Nora A.; Delgado Torres, Dolores. The leader and leadership: reflections Inter-American Journal of Librarianship, vol. 26, no. 2, July-December, 2003, pp. 75-88 Universidad de Antioquia Medellín, Colombia. Article: Online Access

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