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Leadership is one of the most relevant aspects of the [[organization]]al [[context]]. However, defining leadership has been challenging. The following sections discuss several important aspects of leadership including a description of what leadership is and a description of several popular theories and styles of leadership. This article also discusses topics such as the role of [[emotions]] and [[vision]], as well as leadership effectiveness and performance, leadership in different contexts, how it may differ from related [[concepts]] (i.e., management), and some [[critiques]] of leadership as generally conceived.

Leadership is one of the most relevant aspects of the [[organization]]al [[context]]. However, defining leadership has been challenging. The following sections discuss several important aspects of leadership including a description of what leadership is and a description of several popular theories and styles of leadership. This article also discusses topics such as the role of [[emotions]] and [[vision]], as well as leadership effectiveness and performance, leadership in different contexts, how it may differ from related [[concepts]] (i.e., management), and some [[critiques]] of leadership as generally conceived.

 

According to the late Jules Masserman, American [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and former member of the faculty of [http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University medical school], leaders must fulfill three [[functions]]: the leader must provide for the well-being of the led, provide a social organization in which people feel [[relative]]ly secure, and provide a set of [[belief]]s.

According to the late Jules Masserman, American [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and former member of the faculty of [http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University medical school], leaders must fulfill three [[functions]]: the leader must provide for the well-being of the led, provide a social organization in which people feel [[relative]]ly secure, and provide a set of [[belief]]s.

==Theories of leadership==

==Theories of leadership==

The fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the leadership principle is challenged by the introduction of concepts such as autogestion, employeeship, common civic [[virtue]], etc, which stress individual responsibility and/or group authority in the work place and elsewhere by [[focus]]ing on the skills and [[attitude]]s that a [[person]] needs in general rather than separating out leadership as the basis of a special class of individuals.

The fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the leadership principle is challenged by the introduction of concepts such as autogestion, employeeship, common civic [[virtue]], etc, which stress individual responsibility and/or group authority in the work place and elsewhere by [[focus]]ing on the skills and [[attitude]]s that a [[person]] needs in general rather than separating out leadership as the basis of a special class of individuals.

Similarly various historical calamities are attributed to a misplaced reliance on the principle of leadership.

Similarly various historical calamities are attributed to a misplaced reliance on the principle of leadership.

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