The Journey of Leadership Literature
Overview on Leadership Literature
Leadership is a choice.
—Stephen Covey
Leadership has been called “the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth”[1, 2]. Although being extensively studied for over almost a century, a universal definition for “what is leadership?” remains elusive [2, 3]. More than 30 years ago, in a review of leadership literature throughout his researching career [4], asserted that “there are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept” (p. 259).These different definitions fall into a number of the most recognized concepts such as traits, behaviors, and influence processes [3, 5]. Despite several definitions, ...
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