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While no single leader can guarantee absolute comfort, their leadership style significantly impacts individual and societal well-being. Leaders prioritizing economic growth, safety, and equality foster conditions where citizens, businesses, and investors can thrive. Stable economies offer opportunities and prosperity, while safe environments ensure peace and security, vital for businesses and personal well-being. Leaders promoting social justice create fairer access, contributing to a more harmonious and comfortable society for all. Effective leadership remains a powerful force in shaping a better life, even though external factors influence the outcome. Therefore, I agree that the right leader can significantly improve our lives.

In life anything that is right is usually accompanied with a good and progressive results, in same vein having the right leader to man the leadership role of an organisation or a country will make for productive decision making that will affect the lives of citizens positively leading to a boom and flourishing economy. Leadership is a gift that not all men possesses and when the man without vision man a leadership position, policies will be on trial and errors which will lead to a crippling of the nation's economy or organisation growth stall. This is a typical example of the state of the economy in my country because men without vision has found their way to politica-cum-economic  leadership positions in the country.

It shouldn’t even be a topic because leadership already means that the leader is in front. If he goes the wrong direction, everyone behind him follows and goes the wrong direction. I recently gave someone an example on how the lives of people in a kingdom is in the hands of their King. If the king says go to war, they’ll be sorrow from deaths, if he establishes connection and peace with neighboring kingdoms then they’ll be joy. Same with political leaders. The economy isn’t just on its own, it is controlled and the leader has a big hand in it.

Leaders remains an integral part of our societal development in a civilized world. It’s one way to ensure organization and coordination of resources for the popular collective interest of a people. It’s what has pushed the world to where we find it today, different from a time of savagery living.
That’s why, even within the smallest unit of the family, we’ve got a leader.

Good leaders could as well lead to a prosperous state or nation while, you could expect the reverse in a place where you’ve got bad leaders, leaders who remains self centered and sufficient.
It’s gravely exemplified in many nations respectively. It’s easier to follow and so, should a leader choose to better the life of his or her people, you would easily find the citizens following and the change of things for the better.

Obviously, a good leader with a vision would equally bring about positive growth to citizens. Are you expecting anything contrary?
Look at leaders of nations of the earth today. Good and visionary leaders put in place policies that in turn bring about investors leading to economic growth.

Same with any organization. The head of any organization must have necessary qualities of good leadership including being innovative to be able to healthily compete and thrive amongst competitors in the market. Without an able leadership, the body would be unable to function effectively and is bound to fail sooner or later.

He made his country prosperous and coming from being like a poor country when he stepped on that position and became their leader, he has a strong political will power to make his country great together with his people and he just did it. And that's why until now, Singapore is one of the richest country in the world and that's thanks to him and with the cooperation of everyone.

He has made the salary of the officials with high salaries so that they won't be tempted to corrupt people's money and the government. And it worked for them and that's why they've become one of the greatest not just on their region but also in the whole world. The laws and the leadership that has been set by LKY did really helped the country thrived even until now.

It's obvious to anyone who's been in a professional or at least medium and higher size workplace that having the right leaders is needed to keep a company cohesive. Not only can they be the figure head of companies, but an effective company will need many decent leaders all throughout the chain and playing their respective roles. If you're running a food processing factory, you need to be as confident in the marketing team as you do in the hygiene team, that all the right steps are being taken to benefit the company. You also need a leader that is balanced, because being too kind or being too aggressive, or even too volatile, can lead to a unhappy or unproductive workplace for all.

There is no argument about this because after all the leader is certainly in control of what is decided in a policy including building a good economy but on the other hand in this case the leader is actually not enough because after all when a leader who will definitely be followed by his subordinates sometimes not a few of the subordinates are actually more in control because of the lack of capture of the leader and only being at the top so that the role of the leader in this case is not only deciding well what policies should be taken in a regulation but looking thoroughly from the team or people under them because good leaders will be useless if their subordinates do not do the job properly and justly. Because good leaders will be useless if their subordinates do not do the job properly and actually become deviant.

Of course leadership is important. Take a look at Biden for example… Under his administration the United States did very poorly even though the stock market hit ATH lately. The last time the S&P500 was this high 3 years ago. That means the stock market index made nearly no profits in the last 3 years if you invested in it 3 years ago.

Biden strangles the oil industry, pushing useless electric vehicles which nobody wants. He also rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement which is also bad for the economy. That’s poor leadership.

Trump did the exact opposite of Biden when he was the president and till the Covid19 scam, between 2016 and 2020, the stock market went higher and higher and even after the covid19 crash in early 2020, the S&P500 was still at its ATH when he left the office in 2021. That was good leadership.

This is not debatable and the citizens know leaders but the problem is that they are short-changed by those in power to influence in power those they know are wrong and won't dance to the tune of the masses but to them the oligarchs, so they keep paying homage, allegiance to them and they keep feeding fat on the economy at the peril of the citizens who suffer the effects which come inform of nepotism, corruption, unemployment, economic hardship etc. These kind of situation are prevalent in third world countries.

A right leader creates environment for businesses to thrive through policy implementation that will encourage business development and economic growth across the people. They create infrastructure that will increase foreign investment and jobs will be created for the teaming youth population and that will indirectly reduce youth restiveness, reduce agitation and insecurity and foster peaceful coexistence between the people.

We could say he is the founder of Modern Singapore and the way he developed a tiny island without any natural resource and the best thing he worked in the best interest of nation and it's development they selected the leaders, ministers and important portfolio was given of merit basis rather than given to their own relatives like it's happening in Arab and African nations right now as that's what causes corruption and leads countries to disaster.  Lee Kuan Yew was indeed the leader which every developing and third world countries need.

When a country is facing economic whirlwind, just know that it's either there is an increase in insecurities problems, exportation and importation challenges, rise in inflation and energy cost and with these problems, the country will find it difficult to attract any foreign investment. That's why if you watch US campaigns, you will see these are few of the things that are been campaign on just to win the next election because only a good leader can put these things in good shape.

Without a good leadership, no country will operate in where they should be doing well. Look at Nigeria for example; January alone, the Naira has depreciated against the dollar by 25% and this was because of insecurity around the state capital, there has been multiple reported case of kidnapping in the capital, there has been a crazy increase in food inflation and yet our crude oil production has not been surplus which means shortage in exportation of crude oil and all has affected the purchasing power of Naira. Who suffered this? The citizens of course. This is why you need a good leadership in to get a good life.

Kuan Yew has become a legend in Singapore, he is one of the founders of the country of Singapore and he has a big role in Singapore's success today, it could be said that Singapore is the country with the strongest economy in Southeast Asia.

a president or prime minister has a big role in developing the country they lead to become prosperous with the policies they implement. I have also heard the term that even a genius person will find it difficult to be rich if he comes from a poor country with a dilapidated and corrupt government.

For sure a right leader can really bring positive development in the life of it's subjects or followers because he would make sure he have the interest of the masses at heart and wouldn't take decisions that would affect the followers negatively. A place where there is no good leaders you will find out that businesses or investors doesn't come to such area because they would be afraid of the leaders taking a decisions that would affect their businesses or investments.

Having a leader that is incharge of what is going on in a country matters a lot. The work of a president,  prime minister is not just something of occupying sits , this is a vital position that needs people who are competent and people who are problem solver. People are responsible for how the economy is. If the economy is bad that means it someone who made it to be so and if the economy is good it is also someone who made it to be so. We can use just a small family settings to see how a countries economy is. when the father of a family is not playing his role it affects other members of the family , this is the same way when a president is not doing well it will definitely affect  the family.

If you do research,  countries that are doing well in the world just take a look a the leaders from these countries you would notice that these re leaders with good thinking faculty that can help and improve the countries economy. That is why it is important when choosing leader it is good to go after someone who have the capacity.

One great example on how good leadership reflects the economy of a country is with Lee Kuan Yew. He's the former prime minister of Singapore and he's known not just on their country but in the entire world on how this small country became a first world country and reached to the top. Internal policies and love for the country really are one of the many qualities of having a good leadership and this guy doesn't just have those few factors but his brilliant mind helped a lot of citizens thrived to compete into the global economy.

agree with what you said that true leaders are those who focus on long-term goals, not short-term goals such as free rice, free electricity or free fuel. Short term benefits like that will only have an impact in the short term, in the long term there will be no results, in fact this could turn into a boomerang for the country's economy because it will only burden the national budget and not have any economic impact.

We are mostly talking in terms of government political leaders here. In which case most of politically biased and although I might agree with some of their actions some might not get my approval but that does not matter at all to the world - that is how the democracy works.

In the context of following a leader, I prefer to learn the good qualities that a leader has and continue on my own instead of following them. A good leader can only lead but unless they have power at hand they cannot change things for the greater good.

Most of the times political leaders are having to face different people from other countries, pressure from communities and attempt to stabilize all of them at the same time. It is not an easy job and I usually keep myself away from such.

I so much believe in right leadership as a panacea to the sustainable development growth of a a family, a community, a society and a country at large. Good Leadership brings about the creation of policies and when there are great policies put in place in a family or in a community level,  it grows to become a sustainable development growth and economic stability of that particular environment.

Why I kept on mentioning family is because leadership begin from home like charity would begin from home, as well. So, having a right leader starts from having the right person to be the family head and when there is a great family coordination, the economy of that family bolsters which also replicates to the community,state and the entire country.

This is why whenever we talk about selecting or electing a leader to lead the country, the first thing I do as a criteria check is to make sure that I look at the leadership style of that leader at his family level.

What are his knowledge about the financial management and how is he able to manage the finances of his own family, the expenditures and profits of his businesses and whether he's doing well as a business person or even managing is businesses in the right direction, are the Criterion that I use to judge whether we are going to have a good leader who drive a positive economy or not.

So, for someone like me, having a right leader is equivalent to having the a great economy in a country therefore it is imperative for us to know those who lead us and what are their knowledge on the economy and financial discipline.

Let's examine leadership's superiority over management. You promote leadership as the key to organizational and economic success. While encouraging, this approach ignores the concrete drivers of economic progress. Leadership inspires vision, but without careful management, are we merely creating castles in the air?

Consider regional economic growth. It's simplistic to blame leadership. Economic policy, market dynamics, and investor confidence result from strategic planning and execution, not visionarism. You question if the right leader can make citizens, businessmen, and investors happy. Possible, though. However, this ignores the communal efforts needed to navigate modern economies. As citizens, businessmen, and investors, economic structures, regulatory frameworks, and global market forces determine our comfort, not the appropriate leader. Doesn't thinking differently seem naive?