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Name: Professor: Course: Date: Introduction Leadership means different things to different people world over and different things in different circumstances. The perception of leadership usually depends on the philosophies, values, cultures and professions of those who define it. It relates to community leadership, political, and religious leadership differently. Leadership is generally defined as the art of inspiring or influencing others towards the leader's goals. Therefore, a leader is an individual who possesses the ability to motivate and influence his subjects. Leaders are found in multitudes of venues and as such, what constitutes leadership varies a great deal. There are many different identified styles of leadership. There is transformational leadership style that is based on building relationships and motivating staff members, a democratic leadership style that encourages open communication and collective decision-making, autocratic leadership style where leaders make individual decisions without input from the firm and Laissez-faire leadership that encourages little or no supervision from employees (Kuhnert 87). Although leadership means different thing to many people, there are a few essential leadership skills that a leader must have: they are relationship building, delegation, collective decision making and effective communication. This paper seeks to give account on what leadership means to five identified leaders (political leader, religious leader, organizational leader, school and a hospital leader) in their respective professions. Leadership is never equal. While the language might be similar, terms, implications, and styles are different in
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