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people, to shape their attitudes and behaviours. It implies that influence is

exercised to get the people to do what the leader wants them to do. There is a

goal to be achieved.

b) Leaders in the last century

Gandhiji, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King (Jr), Nelson Mandela and Hitler

can be identified as leaders in the last century. Thousands of people were

willing to do their biddings, to follow the paths shown by them, even at the

cost of sacrificing comforts.

c) Leaders get willing cooperation

Leaders create within people an urge to do. Followers of leaders believe that if

they follow the leader, they will get to situations and rewards that are

satisfying. They believe that the leaders know the ways to get to these

satisfactions. They also believe that the leaders have their well-being at heart.

There is thus trust and confidence and therefore, they follow. Leadership is

concerned with obtaining willing co-operation of the followers, not under

conditions of threat or fear which thugs and dacoits do.

d) Leadership is related to motivations of people