On Leadership. Part 1

“There are almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept.”
— Ralph Stogdill, Bass & Stogdill’s Handbook of Leadership, 1990.

“…there are more than 350 definitions of leadership, but no clear and unequivocal understanding as to what distinguishes leaders from non-leaders.”
— Larry Cuban, The Managerial Imperative and the Practice of Leadership in Schools, 1988.

“Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.”
— James MacGregor Burns, Leadership, 1978.

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
— Edward O. Wilson, Harvard Magazine (2009).

The question every future leader would do well to answer: “Why should other people follow me?”