Leadership

• “Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow”
• “Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”
• “Leadership is the influencing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through changes”
• “Leadership is the behavior of an individual… directing the activities of a group toward a shared goal”
• “Leadership is the influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with the routine directives of the organization”
• “Leadership is the process of incluencing the activities of an organized group toward goal achievement”
• “Leadership is a process of giving purpose (meaningful direction) to collective effort, and causing willing effort to be expended to achieve purpose”
• “Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture… to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive”
• “Leadership is the process of making sense of waht people are doing together so that people will understand and be committed”
• “Leadership is about articulating visions, embodying values, and creating the environment within which things can be accomplished”
• “Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organization…”
• “Leadership is the ability of developing and communicating a vision to a group of people that will make that vision true”