Good Leaders Are Made Not Born. If a Person Has the Desire and Willpower, He Can Become an Effective Leader. Good Leaders Develop Through a Never Ending Process of Self-Study, Education, Training, and Experience.

To inspire workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things a leader must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are NOT resting on their laurels.

Definition

Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills.

Leadership and organizational learning

In the field of organizational learning, leadership entered the discussion as a proxy for the organization. Initial concepts of leadership in organizational learning were based on the notion of the dominant coalition. Organizational learning theorists had suggested that the senior management team, or dominant coalition, was in fact the organization level of organizational learning.

Five Leadership constructs affecting each of the five organizational learning constructs shown in SLAM. Leadership of individual and group-level learning relates