Leadership Development has moved on and exciting new perspectives have emerged. Leadership is no longer simply seen as a top down, single experts centralised with “vertical” influence. Much evidence has developed showing effective leadership is broadbased, shared, collaborative and the “horizontal” responsibility of many. For this reason we see leadership as not only focused on personal leader qualities, but outlined on three key levels.
Leadership became a fashionable word starting 30 years ago. Authors like Joseph Kotter, Warren Bennis or Peter Drucker introduced a first differentiation between the roles of leaders and managers in the nineties.