A leader is all about influence; that is if I can make you understand the values and the principles
that I stand for and you follow me even if it’s one person then I am a leader.
Maxwell (1993) defines leadership as, “Leadership is influence. That’s it. Nothing more; nothing
less.” This statement justifies the fact that a leader has to be someone of influence as one cannot
lead the other if they cannot influence them in a way or the other.
Having defined bad leadership, I am going to look at the contributing factors to the leadership
itself. There is a wide array of contributive factors to this bad leadership in this paper I am going
to take the stand out factors. This are:
a) Tribalism; which is a key factor especially when the elections approach.
b) Corruption; sadly even in the parastatals you find this vice.
c) The societal morals; with regard to morals Kenyans are questionable as they have turned the
society into a man eat man society.
d) The institutions of governance;
e) Lack of proper role models to emulate; in any given society the true leader is often difficult to
find.