Discusses the leader-follower relationship, which varies according to a group's situation and environment. Mentions effective two-way communication, trustworthiness, steadiness, and ability to help followers develop initiative as essential leadership qualities. (MLH)

Outlines nine tasks comprising the most significant leadership functions, including envisioning goals, affirming values, motivating others, managing, achieving workable unity, explaining and teaching, serving as a symbol, representing the group, and renewing the system to enhance its future. (MLH)

A leader's motivation tasks include recognizing followers' needs, helping them devise goals to meet these needs, and giving them confidence to accomplish these goals themselves. The small work group fills important social and emotional needs; its attitudes affect productivity, morale, and product quality. (MLH)

Power, the capacity to ensure desired outcomes and prevent undesirable ones, should not be confused with status or prestige. Whereas leaders always have a measure of power, many powerholders have no trace of leadership. Although leaders' roles tend to be overemphasized, society cannot run without leadership. (MLH)

Reviewing the enlivening themes that run through our history as a people, one is struck with the depth and continuity of our commitment to the fulfillment of human possibilities. The leaders we have valued the most have reflected that commitment. Our educational system is preeminently the instrument through which we express our expectations.…

Outlines 14 leadership qualities, including physical vitality, intelligence, judgment-in-action, task and interpersonal competence, understanding of followers, courage, flexibility, confidence, capacity to motivate, and need to achieve. Leadership is not absolutely situation-specific; the attributes required depend on the leadership context, the…

Discusses leadership skills necessary for coping with the great institutional systems holding our society together. Leaders must grasp relationships to the larger realities beyond the system they are heading. Needed skills include agreement-building, networking, exercising nonjurisdictional or "insider" power, and institution-building. (MLH)