Leadership; What Is It?

αρχηγία, ηγεσία

That's Greek for leadership, and probably appropriate as the introductory comment to this section. Look in any dictionary, all the definitions tell you nothing: "the function of a leader", "displaying leadership potential", "the leaders of a group", "the position of a leader", "a person or thing that leads". Okay, armed with those definitions you're prepared to be one! What is leadership? We all talk about it, but it's tremendously difficult to define. We all know it when we see it, but how do you get there?

This section of about 8 blogs extracts management concepts laid out in last year (2007's) blogs and wraps them in a leadership cloak. The concept of leadership is an important ingredient to you and your organization's progress--it comes from how you do your management job. You can manage without leadership qualities; and you can lead without managerial qualities; the combination however is powerful.