Leadership - Do We Know What It Is? Four Pointers To Start You On The Road To Becoming a Leader

Leadership - Do We Know What It Is? Four Pointers To Start You On The Road To Becoming a Leader - "Two significant factors have led to a great deal of the confusion around the issue of "leadership" and the definition of leadership itself.  Firstly, many authors erroneously use "leadership" and "management" interchangeably as if they were the same thing.

"Secondly, a great deal of the research into leadership has been with people who are in formal organisational positions (e.g. supervisors, managers, senior executives) – the inference being that leadership is an integral part of the formal management role (Parry, K.W., Leadership Research: Themes, Implications, and a new Leadership Challenge, Leadership Research and Practice, Warriewood 1996)."