Dr. Robert Clinton posited that "Leadership is influence!" John Maxwell declared... "everything rises and falls on leadership!" These axioms seem ostensibly true, but the key here is to define the term 'leadership'.

Certainly in a performance based and productivity focused culture, this word has a number of definitions and even more connotations, however what needs to be some of our keys for defining the quality of the 'leader'? On what terms, patterns and models should we be focusing to determine this?

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