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Leadership

Leadership is the ability of an individual, group, or organization to influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or organizations. Leadership is a contested term. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the concept, sometimes contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) North American versus European…

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Leadership emergence

Leadership styles

Gender and leadership

Performance

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Leadership

Nodes236
Edges235
Triples305
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008475
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Leadership

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related to Biology and evolution of leadership · 19
Leadership → Anjana Ahuja, Apes, Dale Peterson, Demonic Males, Earth, However, Human Violence, In, Many, Mark, Naturally Selected, Origins, Peterson's, Richard Wrangham, The Evolutionary Science, They, This, Vugt, Wrangham
related to history · 15
Leadership → After, Carlyle, Francis Galton, Galton, Galton's Hereditary Genius, Hero Worship, In Heroes, Philosophical, Plato's Republic, Plutarch's Lives, The, This, Thomas Carlyle, Underlying, What
related to Situational and contingency theories · 15
Leadership → According, Building, Carlyle, Fiedler, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Lewin, Situational, Social, Some, The, Theorists, This, Three, Vroom-Yetton
related to Functional theory · 10
Leadership → Consideration, Examples, Fleishman, Functional, In, Initiating, These, This, Various, While
related to International and global leadership · 9
Leadership → Global, GLOBE, However, International, Organizational Behavior, Other, Project, The Global Leadership, While
related to Neo-emergent theory · 9
Leadership → Consequently, England, In, It, Lord Nelson, Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, The, These, This
related to Performance · 9
Leadership → Campbell, Despite, Each, Job, Many, Some, There, To, While
related to Traits · 9
Leadership → Abraham Lincoln, Cognitive, However, Individuals, Later, Most, One, Scholars, Steve Jobs
related to Transactional and Transformational Leadership · 9
Leadership → Finally, Idealized, Individualized, Intellectual, The, There, Transactional, Transformational, Weber
related to Ontological-phenomenological model · 8
Leadership → In, Jensen, Kari Granger, Michael, Rather, Steve Zaffron, This, Werner Erhard

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Leadershipis aability of an individual0.90text
Leadershipis acontested term0.90text
Leadershipis ainfluential power-relationship in which the power of one party0.90text
Leadershipis astyle characterized by a leader's concentration on the necessary tasks to achieve specific production objectives0.90text
Leadershipis astyle in which the leader focuses on the relationships amongst the group and is generally more concerned with the overall well-being and satisfaction of group members0.90text
Leadershipis aforward-looking drive to inspire change0.90text
theinstance offocus on a small set of individual attributes0.80text
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