ABSTRACT

The view that leadership is somehow not part of management has been promoted by some writers. A more productive view starts with the assumption that the leadership element is an essential part of every manager's make-up. If it were possible to define it in this way, it would be helpful as the first step in harnessing, applying and exploiting it. Certainly the work of every manager requires him to possess the leadership element. Since group activity is an essential part of business organizations, and since self-formed groups and emergent leaders will rarely satisfy the company's needs in addition to their own, the man appointed at the head of the organized group must possess the ability to lead as well as the ability to handle the ‘statistics’, etc. The leadership element is an essential part of successful management, whether it be management of a group of half a dozen people or of several thousands.