Generalizations About Leadership

1. Leadership requires vision ---the ability to see beyond what is to what

might be by bridging the present and the future.

2. Leadership requires the ability to influence and motivate others to

work in concert to achieve the vision.

3. Leadership recognizes the inevitability of conflict and uses it to clarify

purpose, galvanize commitment, and support personal growth.

4. Leadership in a given field fosters creativity and innovation in that

field.

5. Leadership is judged through the lens of time and history.

6. Leadership is highly dependent on the interplay of intellectual

abilities, specific aptitudes and skills, and personality factors.

7. Leadership requires strong beliefs and core values and the passion

and tenacity to act in accordance with them.

8. Leadership is grounded in knowledge of self and the belief in human

agency to change the world.