ABSTRACT
Among thousands of books written on the definition and meaning of leadership, and ensuing diversity of opinions, there is a general agreement that leadership is a process of influence between one individual leader, and a group of people, usually addressed as followers. The majority of leadership books or academic papers start by directing our attention to the need for changing leadership paradigm and usually end up with discussing that it is also imperative to change the way leadership is being taught in business schools. In other instances, the argument goes even deeper to suggest a leadership deficit, as exemplified by the recent events in Eurozone and also in the more recent American financial collapse. There seems to be a change in opinion in leadership literature at the moment, welcomed and supported by a number of scholars including ourselves, as to which philosophy is of most use to leaders to enable them to handle the dual task they have been assigned.
