1.) INTRODUCTION

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it”
Dwight D Eisenhower

Leadership is one of those things that are often awfully hard to define but you know when you see it, and you definitely know when it is missing. Leadership is a process that is ultimately concerned with fostering change. In contrast to the notion of management, which suggests preservation and maintenance, leadership implies a process where there is movement-from wherever we are now to some future place of condition that is different. Leadership is not something we do, it is something we are. Leadership also implies intentionality, in the sense that the implied change is not random-“change for change’s sake”- but is rather directed toward some future end or condition, which is inherently value-based.
A traditional definition of leadership: Leadership......

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Title: Leadership Theories
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