Leadership Leadership is a function that helps a group identify, and move toward, its goal.
Leadership is action by anyone that influences others to follow.
Anyone may provide leadership-it is not the prerogative only of people in authority. That's the clearest description of that system I have ever heard. I had just finished a fifteen minute talk on a complex system of procedures to a group of business men and women, and that comment made my day. It made me feel really good-my step became lighter, the song in my heart changed tempo and my work became more challenging. One of the best measures of our success as Scout leaders is how we feel, as we make our way home after a meeting.