It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Defining what make a “leader” and what we mean by “leadership” is very challenging. There are as many definitions of leadership books on the topic. This section contains an ever increasing collection of leader and leadership definitions. It’s our hope that this collection will assist in providing some insight and clarity on what we mean by leader and leadership.
John Kotter author of “What Leaders Really Do” and more recently “A Sense of Urgency” provides the following definition of leadership from his book “Leading Change”. “Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles” Leadership is about bringing about change [...]
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Howard Gardner describes leadership as: "… persons who, by word and/or personal example, markedly influence the behaviors, thoughts and feelings of a significant number of their fellow human beings." Behaviour is critical to the practice of leadership. Talk is cheap. It’s great to define leadership values and principles. After all is said and done, it’s [...]
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"Leadership: The capacity and will to rally people to a common purpose together with the character that inspires confidence and trust" – Field Marshal Montgomery This is an interesting definition of leadership by Field Marshal Montgomery, in the definition he highlights to key components for effective leadership: A Common Purpose: Leadership is about creating purpose [...]
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I have written in a previous posts on the differences between management and leadership and recently I can across an interesting article with an interesting take on the topic. “Management can be taught. Leadership cannot be taught or learned, it must be earned.” I like this perspective, it means that leadership is a choice, it’s [...]
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An interesting post from Tony Mayo, a Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior unit and the Director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School who has spent the past five years, with Nitin Nohria studying great business leadership in the United States. In their research they sought to answer the question… “What makes a leader [...]
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