What is Leadership?

This article by Centre for Creative Leadership on 'What is Leadership?' goes beyond seeing an individual leader who could be an executive or a manager with certain skill sets. It considers Leadership to be a Social Process - where people work to achieve together. Seeing Leadership as a Social Process, the article encourages its readers to think about a work space where every team member believes that their work contributes to the organisation's success and where everyone believes that leadership is created together rather an individual leading teams. 

The subsequent part of the article shares the Directive-Alignment-Commitment (DAC) Model of leadership where it sees these three elements to be the outcome of leadership, i.e., leadership happens when people are able to produce Direction, Alignment, and Commitment through interaction between teams, managers, the quality of relationships throughout organisations and so on. 

The article ends by sharing a few challenges on leadership, how to diagnose a weak DAC Model in the organisation, and how to develop Leadership at all levels.  Click here to know more