Motivational Leadership

Root word motivate. That is; causing action in a particular way. Leadership; the quality of being able to lead others. Together, motivational leadership is to lead others through one's ability by causing followers to think and or act in the  desired manner.

  While many forms of leadership have motivation included, motivation through negative emotions such as fear, ridicule etc do not exactly gather any other mention than as necessary in this piece. Motivation is primarily a positive word, even though general usage might not reflect this in entirety, it is worthy to note that many leaders have been able to motivate, through personal conduct, followers, into positive albeit, suprising cause of action. We note the personal conduct of leaders such as Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela, who through their peacful natures endeared their causes to the rest of the world and made followers out of them. In 1941-1945, so did Adolf Hitler. He motivated Germany with the message of hatred. The history of the world is replete with examples of  leaders who have motivated followers and-collectively, either made humanity a polished brilliance or an eternal pit of horrors.
   
  In truth, everyone is essentially a leader and follower at once. A leader should always be a follower of law. Situations arise where people who have never been in positions of influence find themselves giving directives-even if momentarily, to others, in order for common goals to be achieved. And while that part of human nature may resent forms of authority, a follower knows that he plays a part-no matter how minute, in the furtherance of the goals of society to which he is a member. This synergy of arbitrary class is the goal of a leader and any follower.

  In Africa, reserve is given to the Male as the head of the family unit. While the Female's role may not be given as much relevance as is due, her role in the family can not be overemphasized nor devaluated. Putting aside the burdens of housekeeping placed on the African female's shoulders, commendation is due to one who plays the role of follower and leader quite as brilliantly. She is a leader as a mother and plays the follower as wife. Due to increase in African female education, we see that the female not only plays the leader at domestics-via her influence over her domain but also in her field of expertise.  She should not be limited either when between the Male and Female, she shows better leadership qualities. The dynamics of leadership and followership are not fixated, and no one makes a good leader without becoming a better follower. The animal world draws great parallel we could aspire to. We respect the heavy maned Lion as the king of animals and he pays due to his female-she runs the pride. The power inherent in that simplicity is amazing!

  Humanity, if truly we evolved, should realise that the next step in our progression, is a more unified effort at becoming better followers. Given that leadership is at most opportunity given, our default should be a class of followership that recoginises its leader, but is not restricted by it, and, is equally served by benevolent, dutiful leadership.        Perhaps, we may apply the law of diminishing returns to our evolutionary progression, this would mean that given the multitude of years and the connsequent advances in science, humanity may be judged to have failed to battle the problem of leadership and followership that has plagued it since Adam met Eve. While we have no one holding a scorecard over our heads- and really need we? The attendant consequence of our inability, wars, famine, corruption, civil disobedience should spur us all to a solution.