This document discusses various topics related to leadership, including:
1. It defines leadership as the ability to inspire confidence and support among people to achieve organizational goals. Effective leadership requires a partnership between leaders and followers based on shared purpose, accountability, and honesty.
2. Research shows that transactional leadership has little impact on performance while charismatic and transformational leadership can positively impact performance, especially in uncertain environments.
3. Leadership qualities include traits, motives, roles, and characteristics. Effective followers also demonstrate traits like self-management, commitment, competence, courage, and critical thinking.
4. Theories of leadership include trait, behavioral, contingency, path-goal, leader-member exchange, and