Martin Luther King Jr.: An Example Of An Effective Leader

Effective leadership is something that everybody wants but not enough people are willing to pursue. An effective leader is important because it is one of the only ways a group of people can succeed together. Every group of people needs guidance and an effective leader could be the defining factor between a successful or unsuccessful group. Great leaders are important because they shape the communities that they are leading and in a sense they are responsible, to some degree of a certain portion of the world's population so really leaders worldwide influence and impact the general population. This is why people need positive and effective leadership although not all effective leadership is positive, an effective leader could also have a negative impact and in comparison most people would prefer a leader who has no or little impact compared to a leader who has a huge negative impact so effective leadership isn’t always a good thing but it’s always an important thing. To define this concept is a task that cannot be taken lightly due to it’s difficult

Leaders who are truly effective leave their mark in some way or another and they are not easily forgotten. An example of this would be Martin Luther King Jr. for the way he changed the world we live in forever and he will probably never be forgotten for his actions. When we hear the initials MLK only one man comes to mind and what he stood for will always be engraved in history, his efforts as a leader of the civil rights movement paid off and made him forever recognized and highly praised. Someone who doesn’t fulfill this criteria would be a person who was a leader of some sort but is not remembered or did not make a difference that is remembered. To satisfy this criteria a person and their actions must stand the test of