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What is leadership?
Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:00

There are literally hundreds of definitions of leadership.

After seven and a half years PhD level study including a leadership literature review by Roddy Mullin, the conclusion drawn is that:

“Leadership is visionary, it is the projection of personality and character to inspire, persuade, compel, transform the team, dependent on the situation to achieve the desired outcome through the selection of an appropriate leadership style. The successful leader is an individual who has acquired individual enabling skills especially communication and setting the example and learnt to understand him/herself, the organisation, the environment in which they operate and the people that they are privileged to lead.”

(Leadership Definition© by Roddy Mullin - extracted from PhD Thesis 2006)

 
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Roddy Mullin said:

Roddy Mullin
 Qualities, the research shows, are not relevant to learning how to lead
Historically, for a period in the early part of the 20th Century, qualities were considered, but research by Jennings and others showed that qualities are irrelevant as a way to identify a leader, nor does a person have to have any particular quality to lead. Leaders have a mix of qualities; no one particular quality is held by all. It is therefore not a part of the definition, nor by simply displaying qualities will you be a leader or able to lead. You need to learn how to lead and the Helmsmanship courses are designed to make it easy to learn.
July 31, 2009

Elektra said:

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 Leadership qualities?
I keep reading about the 'qualities' of leaders being important in leadership.

I notice you don't mention them in your definition?

July 08, 2009

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