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Leadership is the capability to guide people toward shared goals, create meaning, and shape organizational conditions so teams perform effectively. It covers strategic direction, decision-making and culture-defining behaviors across levels. Effective leadership aligns vision, accountability and continuous development of people and structures.
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Leadership is the social practice of aligning people around a shared goal, providing direction, and creating conditions for collective action.
Leadership developed from a focus on formal command toward a broader understanding of influence, relationships, and shared responsibility. Research and management practice increasingly distinguish a positional role from the behaviors that make leadership effective.
See leadership as navigation: a leader clarifies the destination, reads the situation, decides under uncertainty, and creates room for others to contribute. Navigation does not replace the crew's skills.
A clear direction connects everyday decisions to a shared purpose.
Leadership works through trust, communication, and decisions, not formal authority alone.
The term helps describe leadership behavior in teams, organizations, and change efforts. It focuses attention on clarity of purpose, relationships, decisions, and the effects of action.
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