I could not help but notice that all three leadership styles
mentioned in the reading are practical and have their own pros and cons. None
of the style would be perfect of course because it depends on the leader
himself and his personality which results in the progress of a nation.
All three leadership styles, namely, Laissez-faire leadership,
transactional leadership and transformational leadership would no doubt have
been adopted by different leaders of our nation in the past and the present.
Some citizens will favor Laissez-faire leadership as it hands off responsibility
to common people and hence fosters harmony. On the other hand some might
believe that transactional leadership is better because the leader gets to make
policies for the citizens and maintains political unity. But I believe that for
a nation like ours, we need a transformational leader. Pakistan as a nation is
not ready to hand over all the responsibilities to the citizens, nor does it
need other people to govern them, because all of this has already been done in
the past and it has not resulted in any betterment for the nation.
What we need is vision and inspiration; the kind of
leadership which can transform the nation and make it prosperous and proud. This
kind of leadership might finally be able to make our country stand on its own.
there is no doubt that the style of leadership has a great impact on the prosperity of the nation. However, Pakistan's problems do not limit to having an inappropriate leadership style only.Even if transformational style is adopted, there are a lot of social, economic, financial and strategic issues that the country has to deal with in order to move towards prosperity.
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