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Essay on Leadership and Motivation
In his 1991 book "Leadership for the Twenty-First Century," Joseph C. Rost notes Bass' and Stodgill's efforts to develop a leadership manual. These scholars collected more than 4,700 leadership studies, however did not present a single unified definition of leadership. In his own studies, Rost observed that it wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that any effort was made in good dictionaries to define the term leadership.
Up to that point, leadership remained an indistinct concept behind the more definable terms of lead, leader and leading.As James MacGregor Burns noted that despite the fact that leadership is one of the most observed and studied fields, it remains one of the least understood. He also maintained that for all people know about leaders, they know far too little about leadership: they have failed to understand the real meaning of leadership in modern society.
Leadership Characteristics: An Introduction
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