Important Features of Leadership¶
Leaders are individuals, who empowers others to identify solutions and make their own decisions to address challenges they face. Monica Cox, an awardee of Purdue University’s Faculty Award of Excellent for Leadership once called leadership as “the highest way of activism” (reference). Her statement points to the leadership skill of involving the members of a group (that a leader aims to impact) in decision-making processes and not taking individual decision for them (reference).
With this basic understanding of leadership, in contrast to a management, in this subchapter we discuss some important features of leadership.