Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The position or office of a leader.
- noun Capacity or ability to lead.
- noun A group of leaders.
- noun Guidance; direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a leader; guidance; control.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office, position or function of a leader.
- noun The quality of character and personality giving a person the ability to gain the confidence of and lead others.
- noun The people who serve as leaders of a group.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the capacity of someone to
lead - noun a group of
leaders - noun dated The office or status of a leader.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ability to lead
- noun the body of people who lead a group
- noun the status of a leader
- noun the activity of leading
Etymologies
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Examples
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They seem to forget positions in leadership is not the head of a ghetto.
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A change in leadership is just a drop in the bucket.
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They are human – we all make mistakes – however when you are in leadership, your mistakes are excused but you're quality of leadership is below 0.
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He told Fox that Rumsfeld has run the Pentagon through intimidation and that a change in leadership is needed.
Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation 2006
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Marine General Paul Van Riper told Fox that Rumsfeld has run the Pentagon through intimidation and that a change in leadership is needed.
Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation 2006
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He told Fox that Rumsfeld has run the Pentagon through intimidation and that a change in leadership is needed.
Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation 2006
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Katrina, not only exposed inadiquicies in leadership from the Whitehouse, but also the great lengths they take from abstaining from blame while laying blame on others.
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This centre of excellence in leadership is located here in Toronto.
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Now, one of the most difficult things in leadership, especially in industrial leadership, is what I think we can call "communications", which means how you get the intention of the top man right to the boy with the oily rag, right down through the whole organization.
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This Mayor of ours appears to taking the word leadership and showing us its meaning.
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While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.
It’s About the Who - Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership 2024
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