Leadership & Leadership Skills

This leadership definition includes musings on the main leadership skills and how leadership applies to business. Are the terms leadership and management interchangeable?

Business leadership is important for small businesses, too. Transform yourself into a leader with these five keys to effective business leadership.

Leadership skills, says Kevin Berchelmann, aren't rocket science. They're a matter of applying the right leadership law at the right time. Here are the five laws of leadership that both new and experienced leaders should never forget.

Get the best advice on being a business leader from these top business leaders who share the leadership success secrets they've learned during their successful careers. By Paul B. Thornton, author of Leadership: Best Advice I Ever Got.

Learn how others define leadership with this selection of leadership quotes.

About Management Guide F. John Reh introduces us to "an ordinary man" who was a true leader - and shares the lessons of leadership he learned from him.

Most businesses were started because the founder had a vision about what he or she could create. Sharing that vision with others in a way that compels them to act is the secret to a successful leadership vision, says Human Resources Guide Susan M. Heathfield. Here she shares the fundamentals of what a leadership vision must do.

Leadership and management are not the same thing but certainly leadership is an essential quality in a manager. In this part of his four part series, The Manager's Annual Plan, About Management Guide F. John Reh explains what leadership is and isn't.

What's the difference between leadership, management and supervision? What are the characteristics of a successful leadership style? About Human Resources Guide Susan M. Heathfield answers these questions in this series of articles on leadership success.

Don Clark's Leadership Guide is one of the most complete leadership resources on the 'Net. It includes explanations of the basic concepts of leadership and leadership skills, leadership FAQs and quotes, and learning activities to help develop leadership skills.

While this module on leadership skills was orginally designed for the Boy Scouts of America, anyone interested in developing their leadership skills can benefit from the lessons.