ABSTRACT
This chapter explores attitudes to leadership in academic life, and defines leadership in a way that fits the academy. It explores what successful leaders do and how they learn, and suggests practical ways to think about and develop leadership capacities. Leadership means different things to different people and the term is loaded with ideological baggage. Leadership has often been seen as a capacity that exists independently of context. However, leadership does imply a domain in which leading takes place. In academic institutions, there has been an equivocal and not always analytical view of leadership, management and administration, signalled by a tendency to use the words interchangeably, sometimes encapsulating them in the term 'managerialism', as if it were much the same thing. An ability to show leadership in teaching will enhance student learning and be helpful to teacher both in gaining promotion and in performing well.
