How We Define Leadership: A Collection

We are continuing down the path of investigating, researching and learning more about communities (the definition of them, and the importance of them), and we’ve started to come up against some questions around community leadership.

Considering the requirements of community leadership naturally took us to the stories of others and how they perceive leadership. Rather as we did with the topic of community, we’ve spent time to learn more about the roots of leadership and what the core competencies are of today’s leaders. In doing so we noticed that four distinct themes of leadership emerged from our analysis.

We have collected our favourite leadership quotes together and collated them under the four themes of leadership which we identified during our research. We would love to hear your favourite quotes about leadership and where they fit in with our four themes. Please share them with us in the comments at the end.

Let’s first begin with the dictionary definition of leadership.

Vision & Communication

Leadership begins with a vision of what could be and the ability to communicate that vision to…