If you look up “leadership” in the dictionary, you’ll see references to “leader” and “leading” but no real description of the idea itself. The lack of definition there is odd, considering that in his book “Leaders,” published in 1997, Warren Bennis asserted there are more than 850 definitions of the term floating around. That’s a lot to wrap your head around, even if you’re in a leadership position already.
Leadership, it seems, is difficult to define in a single way. I have found it to be contextual. Leadership calls for different practices and different qualities in specific situations. And that leads to the wide variety of terminology