Five Critical Components of Leadership

Abstract

After drawing a distinction between leadership and management, the author goes on to discuss five important aspects of leadership: integration, innovation, importance, intensity, and integrity. The leader should be able to smoothly integrate the disparate needs of today's workers into business operations. Innovation is possible only if the leader is able to rise above details. Similarly, recognizing what is important requires that inherited practices be subjected to careful scrutiny. Intensity allows a leader to motivate his or her workforce. Finally, to be truly effective, all actions of the leader must be informed by integrity.