The Definition of Leadership
I don’t want to pass up the opportunity to share an article I read about the definition of leadership. Below are a few highlights:
What is leadership? A simple definition is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal. In a business setting, this can mean directing workers and colleagues with a strategy to meet the company's needs.
Business Leadership and the Bottom Line
In business, leadership is linked to performance, and any leadership definition has to take that into account. While it's not solely about profit, those who are viewed as effective leaders are the ones who increase their company's bottom lines. If an individual in a leadership role does not meet profit expectations set by boards, higher management, or shareholders, they may be terminated.
The terms "leadership" and "management" tend to be used interchangeably. Management refers to a company's management structure as its leadership, or to individuals who are actually managers as the "leaders" of various management teams.
Leaders: Born or Made?
While there are people who seem to be naturally endowed with more leadership abilities than others, anyone can learn to become a leader by improving particular skills. History is full of people who, while having no previous leadership experience, have stepped to the fore in crisis situations and persuaded others to follow their suggested course of action. They possessed traits and qualities that helped them to step into roles of leadership.
Writing in Forbes magazine, Erika Andersen, author of "Leading So People Will Follow," says that, like most things, leadership capability falls along a bell curve. So the fact is that most folks who start out with a modicum of innate leadership capability can actually become very good, even great leaders.
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Robert