JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2017
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2017Author
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection
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Abstract
Leadership has always been in the limelight when it comes to addressing issues at any level of
organisation. We speak of leadership in a home, or in a local community, or in a nation, and amongst
a group of nations. Most of the times the success of a community, or an organisation, or a nation
is attributed to the presence of good leadership in those entities. Similarly, the failure of the same
entities to address key issues and to make progress is generally attributed to poor or bad leadership.
Inevitably this gives rise to the general belief that good leadership is an important factor to
development or progress of any given organisation, or society, or nation. For instance, we have
heard some people lament a lot about leadership deficit in most of our African countries. In the light
of this, we ask ourselves what is leadership and why does it matter?