What is leadership?

Depending on who you ask, you will receive get replies as to what leadership is all about. Is a leader:
• someone who gets the job done?
• someone who get other people to follow them?
• someone who has great management skills?
• someone who inspires people?

The list could be longer, and the responses, as we mentioned, even more diverse, depending on whom you ask.

Someone once said: "If you want to know if you are a leader, look around and see if anyone is following you". Whilst this may be a good test in one sense, it is probably a too simplistic answer to the question. It is more likely to cause problems than provide an answer or a solution. To stop and look around when you have been going in a particular direction is fine if there are people following you; the problem arises when you look around and see that no one is following you!

Kouzes and Posner mention in their book that there are five practices of exemplary leadership:

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