Leadership

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The ability to influence, motivate, and guide individuals or groups toward achieving a common goal.

- "Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group, or organization to 'lead', influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations."
- "Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the concept, sometimes contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) North American versus European approaches."
- "Some U.S. academic environments define leadership as 'a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common and ethical task'."
- "Some have challenged the more traditional managerial views of leadership (which portray leadership as something possessed or owned by one individual due to their role or authority)."
- "...advocate the complex nature of leadership which is found at all levels of institutions, both within formal and informal roles."
- "Studies of leadership have produced theories involving (for example) traits, situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among others."
- "Sometimes contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) North American versus European approaches."
- "Portray leadership as something possessed or owned by one individual due to their role or authority."
- "The complex nature of leadership which is found at all levels of institutions, both within formal and informal roles."
- "Leadership as 'a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common and ethical task'."
- "Traits, situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among others."
- "Contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership."
- "Within the West, North American versus European approaches to leadership."
- "Enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common and ethical task."
- "The complex nature of leadership which is found at all levels of institutions, both within formal and informal roles."
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- "The power of one party (the 'leader') promotes movement/change in others (the 'followers')."
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- "Leadership as something possessed or owned by one individual due to their role or authority."