Leadership

Definitions: Leadership

Leadership

Noun

1. The activity of leading; "his leadership inspired the team".

2. The body of people who lead a group; "the national leadership adopted his plan".

3. The status of a leader; "they challenged his leadership of the union".

4. The ability to lead: "he believed that leadership can be taught".

Date "leadership" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Leadership

Domain	Definitions
Economics	A term. . . generally applied to qualities and forces existing within an organization (usually centered in the top executives) which motivate, guide and direct individuals. . Source: European Union. (references)
	A term which is somewhat vague but is generally applied to qualities and forces existing within an organization. . . which motivate, guide, and direct individuals as well as groups. . Source: European Union. (references)
Medicine	Preference will be given to bilingual, dynamic self-starter with --, ego drive, and empathy. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Leadership

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In common usage, leadership generally refers to:

the position or office of an authority figure, such as the President [1]
a group of influential people, such as the union leadership [1]
guidance or direction, as in the phrase "the leadership is not providing much leadership"
capacity or ability to lead, as in the phrase "she exercised effective leadership."

Leadership as a position of authority

In On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Thomas Carlyle demonstrated the concept of leadership as a position of authority when he said the following, in praising Oliver Cromwell's use of power to bring King Charles I to trial and eventual beheading "Let us remark, meanwhile, how indispensable everywhere a King is, in all movements of men. It is strikingly shown, in this very War, what becomes of men when they cannot find a Chief Man, and their enemies can." [1]

From this view, leadership emerges when an entity as "leader" manages to get deference from other entities who become "followers." And as the passage from Carlyle demonstrates, the process of getting deference is competitive in that the emerging "leader" draws "followers" from the factions of the prior "leaders."

In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the American Founders rejected the idea of a monarch. But they still proposed leadership as a position of authority, with the authority split into three powers, the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary. That is, under the American theory, the authority of leadership derived from the power of the voters conveyed through the electoral college. And leadership as a position of authority could be shared among many people, including among the many legislators in the Senate and the House of Representatives. [1]

Determining what makes effective "leadership"

In comparing various leadership styles in many cultures, academic studies have examined the patterns in which leadership emerges and then fades, sometimes by natural succession according to established rules and sometimes by the imposition of brute force. Some scholars choose to judge the effectiveness of leadership by the size of the following that the "leader" can muster. By this standard, Hitler was an effective leader even if his promises were delusional and even if his troops forced the following. [1]

Other scholars maintain that an effective leader must unite followers to a shared vision that offers true value, integrity, and trust to transform and improve the organization and society. James MacGregor Burns calls this leadership that delivers true value, integrity, and trust transformational leadership that he distinguishes from mere transactional leadership that gets power by doing whatever will get more followers. [1] But the transformational quality of leadership is more difficult to quantify than would be a mere count of the followers that transactional leadership sets as a primary standard for effectiveness. That is, transformational leadership requires an evaluation of quality independent of the market demand that exhibits in the number of followers.

Leadership as a position of authority, comparison among the apes

Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson, in Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence present the empirical evidence that only humans and chimpanzees, among all the animals living on earth, share a similar tendency for violence, territoriality, and competition for uniting behind the one chief male of the land. [1] And the chimpanzees are man's closest species relative; humans inherited 98% of their genes from the ancestors of the chimpanzees.

In comparison, the bonobos, the second closest species relative of man, do not unite behind the chief male of the land. The bonobos show deference to an alpha or top-ranking female that, with the support of her coalition of other females, is as strong as the strongest male in the land. That is, if leadership amounts to getting the greatest number of followers, then among the bonobos, a female almost always exerts the strongest and most effective leadership.

Some have argued that, since the bonobo pattern inverts the dominant pattern among chimpanzees and men with regard to whether a female can get more followers than a male, humans and chimpanzees both likely inherited gender bias against women from the ancestors of the chimpanzees; gender bias is a genetic condition of men. And the bias against women having leadership as a position of authority crosses all world cultures. As of 2002, Sweden has the highest percentage of women in the legislature at 43%. And the United States, Andorra, Israel, Sierra Leone, and Ireland are tied for 57th place with less than 15% of the legislature women. [1] Admittedly, those percentages are significantly higher than the occurrence of female chimpanzees becoming alpha of the community by getting the most followers, but the trends are similar in manifesting a general gender bias across cultures against females getting leadership as a position of authority over followers.

Do certain qualities a "leader" make?

Qualities sometimes associated with leadership may include talent, technical/specific skill, initiative, charismatic inspiration and service to a cause. The skills and practices of "leadership" may compare with management in the broadest sense of that word. In this connection one can view leadership as

centralized or decentralized
broad or focused
decision-oriented or morale-centered
intrinsic or derived from some authority.

Leadership Metaphors

An effective leader resembles an orchestra conductor in some ways. She has to somehow get a group of potentially diverse and talented people -- many of whom have strong personalities -- to work together toward a common output. Will the conductor harness and blend all the gifts her players possess? Will the players be happy with the degree of creative expression they have? Will the audience be pleased by the sound they make? The conductor may have a determining influence on all of that.

Leadership by a group

In contrast to tolerating leadership as a position of authority, some highly successful organizations have adopted a pragmatic approach when they found that the role of boss costs too much in team performance. That is, in some situations, the maintenance of the boss is too expensive by either draining the resources of the group as a whole or impeding the creativity within the team, even unintentionally.

For example, the Orpheus orchestra which has performed for over thirty years without a conductor--that is, without a boss--for a team of over 25 members, has drawn discriminating audiences, and has produced over 60 recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in successful competition with the other world-class orchestras with the autocratic or charismatic conductors. [1]

Rather than an autocratic or charismatic conductor deciding the overall conception of the work and then dictating how each individual is to perform the individual tasks, the Orpheus team generally selects a different "core group" for each piece of music; the core group as a team work out the details of the piece; the core group present their idea to the whole team; each member of the whole team then participates in refining the final conception, rehearsal, and product, including checking from various places in the auditorium how the sound is balanced and verifying the quality of the final recording--all without a boss.

At times the whole team may follow someone, but whom the team follows rotates from task to task among the members that the team finds capable. The Orpheus team even has developed seminars and training sessions for adapting the Orpheus Process to business. [1]

Other varieties of leadership

Accordingly, there are many uses for the word "leadership": it can mean a collective group of leaders or it can also mean the special if not mystical characteristics of those who lead (compare hero). Yet other usages have a leadership which does not lead, but to which one simply shows respect (compare the courtesy title reverend). Aside from the prestige-role sometimes granted to inspirational leaders, a more mundane meaning of the word "leadership" can mean "current front-runners": someone can take over the lead in a race, for example; or a corporation or a product can hold a position of market leadership.

In would-be controlling groups such as political parties, ruling elites, and other belief-based enterprises like religions or business, the idea of leadership can become a Holy Grail and people can come to expect transformational change stemming from the leader; such entities encourage their followers and believers to worship leadership, to respect it, and to strive to become proficient in it. Followers in such a situation may become uncritically obedient. Note the different connotations of a synonym of the word "leader" adopted from the German: Führer. Alternatives to the cult of leadership include co-operative ventures, collegiality, consensus, anarchism and democracy.

Aristocratic thinkers have postulated that leadership depends on one's blue blood or genes. Contrariwise, more democratically-inclined theorists have pointed to examples of meritocratic leaders, such as the Napoleonic marshals profiting from careers open to talent. In similar fashion, traditionalists recall the role of leadership of the Roman pater familias; against which feminist thinking posits emotionally attuned responsive and consensual empathetic guidance.

Many organizations aim to identify, foster and promote leadership potential or ability. See for example the Scouting movement.

For a more general take on leadership in politics, compare the concept of the statesman.

Also see

leadership development

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leadership."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Leadership

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LEAD	English	Leadership for Environment and Development	Environment
LEG	Portuguese	Leadership Group específico para o euro	Finance
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Leadership

Synonyms: leaders (n), leading (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leadership

English words defined with "leadership": bellwether, Bismarck ♦ develop ♦ evolve ♦ follow, follower ♦ generalship, ground swell ♦ influential, involved, Iron Chancellor ♦ Jose Ortega y Gasset ♦ lead, leaders, leading, led, loyally ♦ mired ♦ Ortega y Gasset, Otto von Bismarck ♦ Pericles, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Prince Otto von Bismarck ♦ Rome ♦ sponsor ♦ tinpot, To come to the front ♦ unled ♦ von Bismarck ♦ Zollverein. (references)

Specialty definitions using "leadership": centralized leadership, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION WORKER, community service consultant, COMMUNITY-RELATIONS-AND-SERVICES ADVISOR, PUBLIC HOUSING ♦ democratic leadership ♦ FGDC ♦ GROUP WORKER ♦ Inactive File, information and referral director, Internal Communicator ♦ MANAGER, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, Master ♦ National Services Program, NCSS, Nihilists, NRCS, NSP, Nursing, Team ♦ Planning, Research, and Evaluation Division, program consultant, PSYCHOLOGIST, INDUSTRIAL-ORGANIZATIONAL, PSYCHOLOGIST, SOCIAL ♦ REHABILITATION CENTER MANAGER ♦ Social Desirability ♦ tenant relations coordinator, training administrator, training instructor, TRAINING REPRESENTATIVE ♦ United States Health Resources and Services Administration. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Leadership" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (leadership).

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Modern Usage: Leadership

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) They're getting closer and closer under German leadership. They all deserve an injection. (Aimée & Jaguar; writing credit: Erica Fischer; Max F�rberböck) Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form. (Babylon 5: The Gathering; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski)
Lyrics	About your leadership ("My Way"; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)
Clever	Has Leadership Qualities: Is tall or has a loud voice. (references; author: unknown) Leadership is an opportunity to serve; it is not a trumpet call to self importance. (references; author: unknown) God puts some in places of leadership to shoulder responsibility, not to enjoy privileges. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Three Approaches to Leadership (1965) Leadership Discipline: You Have Control (1960) Britain and Canada Debate Britain's World Leadership (1959) CASC: Student Leadership for Today (1998) Aymara Leadership (1984)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Leadership

Domain	Title
Books	The Leadership Engine (reference) The Anguish of Leadership (reference) Beyond Success: The 15 Secrets to Effective Leadership and Life Based on Legendary Coach John Wooden's Pyramid of Success (reference) Patton on Leadership (reference) Inclusion: Are We Abandoning or Helping Students? (Roadmaps to Success: The Practicing Administrator's Leadership Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Christian Education Leadership (reference) Classroom Leadership (reference) Clinical Leadership & Management Review (reference) English Leadership Quarterly (reference) Executive Leadership (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Winning Colors Instructor's video: leadership, team-building, self-esteem career choice, violence prevention (conflict resolution) (reference) Developing Quality Leadership (reference) 20th Century with Mike Wallace - Mystique of Leadership (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Jefferson on Leadership (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Leadership

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Photo Album: Leadership

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Oil painting by Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR, Official U.S. Navy Combat Artist, depicting Commander O'Kane on board the submarine Tang (SS-306) in 1944. This photograph was taken to support the Metropolitian Museum of Art exhibition "Your Navy: Its contribution to America from Colonial Days to World Leadership", which opened on 25 October 1948.Credit: NAVY.		Oil painting by Commander Albert K. Murray, USNR, Official U.S. Navy Combat Artist, depicting Commander O'Kane on board the submarine Tang (SS-306) in 1944. This photograph was taken to support the Metropolitian Museum of Art exhibition "Your Navy: Its contribution to America from Colonial Days to World Leadership", which opened on 25 October 1948.Credit: NAVY.
	The proper conduct of business requires every ounce of leadership that it is possible to exert.Credit: Library of Congress.		Leningrad inhabitants, including women of all ages, under the leadership of Petrov, a munition worker, using shovels and picks to help construct anti-tank ditches in answer to the call to defend their city to the last during the Siege of Leningrad.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Leadership for America : Goodling for Congress : leadership you can trust.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Leadership

Author	Quotation
Dwight David Eisenhower	You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Peter F. Drucker	Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Theodore M. Hesburgh	The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Vance Packard	Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Leadership

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Strong political leadership is necessary to direct this effort. (references)
		Volunteer-driven organization that works to improve lives through leadership in the prevention, control, and cure of arthritis and related diseases. (references)
		As a group, they tend to be shy, somewhat passive, and unlikely to take a leadership role. Although they do make friends with other children, they tend to have only a few friends at a time. Researchers also describe them as cooperative and eager to please. (references)
Business		Healthcare reform is a major concern of China's leadership. (references)
		This "third generation" leadership governs collectively with President Jiang at the center. (references)
		It would undermine American leadership in the region and the confidence of their Asian allies. (references)
Children	Laos	In 2000 the LNCD also hosted a regional conference on disabilities in Vientiane to promote leadership and organizational skills for persons with disabilities. (references)
Civil Liberties	Turkey	Coreligionists from outside the country have been permitted to assume leadership positions. (references)
	Romania	The new radio leadership is likely to reflect the ruling party's views in its new coverage. (references)
Economic History	Pakistan	Bhutto resisted and later arrested the PNA leadership. (references)
	Georgia	Relations between the leadership of Ajara and Tbilisi are strained. (references)
	Philippines	Much depends on the personal leadership style of local union leaders. (references)
Human Rights	Sierra Leone	The RUF's leadership denounced the person who committed this act. (references)
	Chad	Both government and insurgent forces suffered heavy casualties, including members of the leadership. (references)
	Tunisia	In July the LTDH leadership resumed activities in its offices and resumed many of its normal activities. (references)
Minorities	Peru	Many persons of Asian descent hold leadership positions in business and government. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	All the churches reopened during the year, although the leadership struggle continues. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	The Celestial Christians are divided because of a leadership struggle, as are the Harrists, who have fought on occasion. (references)
Political Economy	Bolivia	Coalition members hold the top leadership positions in both chambers. (references)
	MALAYSIA	CDRC leadership has pledged to resolve outstanding cases by August 2002. (references)
	SAUDI ARABIA	Saudi Arabia's leadership is moving towards establishing a free market economy. (references)
Political Rights	Chad	Few women hold senior leadership positions. (references)
	Burma	Women also are excluded from military leadership. (references)
	Paraguay	Multiple parties and candidates contest the country's leadership positions. (references)
Trade	Sweden	If the merger occurs, the new company will compete with Nordea (formerly MeritaNordbanken in Sweden) for leadership in the Nordic commercial banking market and it will have ambitions to expand in Europe. (references)
Women	Georgia	Women rarely fill leadership positions. (references)
	Peru	Traditional assumptions and misconceptions often impede access by women to leadership roles in both the public and private sectors. (references)
Worker Rights	Georgia	In November 2000, the ATUG met to reelect its leadership. (references)
	El Salvador	The Labor Code prohibits foreigners from holding leadership positions in unions. (references)
	Morocco	Union leadership does not always uphold the rights of members to select their own leaders. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Leadership

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Ann Richards	I don't know whether he'll leave the Senate or not but he's probably not going to want to be in the Senate if he's not in the leadership.
Patty Hearst	Oh, jeez, he was the leader, or at least mostly considered himself to be the leader. There were a lot of leadership problems toward the end. But he was considered to be the leader after Donald DeFreeze was killed.
Prince Albert of Monaco	Yeah. And I think it's a normal role for anyone in an position of leadership. I've assumed that role with great interest and I think it's a normal part of our activity.
Rush Limbaugh	Even before we announced hostilities in Afghanistan, the Democratic leadership began ripping Bush because he wasn't taking action.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Leadership

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961	To produce this unity, to meet the challenge of our time, destiny has laid upon our country the responsibility of the free world's leadership.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	That a new Inter-Departmental Task Force be established under the leadership of the Department of State, to coordinate at the highest level all policies and programs of concern to the Americas.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Later this week, I shall submit a special message which I reviewed with the leadership this evening containing a proposal that has been reduced and has modified the Commission's recommendation to some extent on the congressional salaries.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Thanks to American leadership, the prospects for peace in the Middle East are brighter than they have been in three decades.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Working with the Congressional leadership, my Administration spotlighted the importance of education by creating a new Department of Education.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	You'd never know that we remain the one nation the rest of the world looks to for leadership.
George Bush	1989-1993	Americans know that leadership brings burdens, and requires sacrifice.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	That's why the bipartisan leadership has supported it.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Pakistan is now cracking down on terror, and I admire the strong leadership of President Musharraf.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Leadership

"Leadership" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Leadership" is used about 4,689 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.83%	4,681	2,096
Noun (proper)	0.11%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	0.06%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	4,689	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Leadership

Expressions using "leadership": centralized leadership ♦ democratic leadership ♦ market leadership ♦ overall leadership ♦ under the leadership of our party. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "leadership": leadership-based, leadership-style.
	Ending with "leadership": cost-leadership.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leadership

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
leadership	3,746
leadership skill	1,071
leadership training	623
leadership style	484
leadership development	466
educational leadership	416
leadership quote	362
team leadership	240
situational leadership	174
leadership quality	168
center for creative leadership	165
leadership coaching	160
leadership theory	121
article on leadership	111
servant leadership	98
leadership definition	96
leadership management	89
transformational leadership	89
leadership seminar	85
leadership trait	83
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Leadership

Language		Translations for "leadership"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		udhëheqje (directing, direction, directorship, guidance, guide, helm, lead, management, manual), grup drejtues, drejtim (accost, administration, conduct, course, direction, directorship, disposal, drift, guide, headship, helm, lead, lie, line, management, manual, operation, orientation, quarter, rectification, regimen, resort, run, set, steerage, supervision, tenor, trend, vector, way), aftësi drejtuese. (various references)

Arabic		‏قيادة (command, conduct, control, direction, drive, driving, guidance, lead, leading, steer, steerage), ‏قادة, ‏زعامة (colonelcy), ‏ريادة (exploration, reconnaissance, scouting), ‏رئاسة (chiefship, presidency). (various references)

Bulgarian		ръководство (administration, conduct, direction, directory, governance, guidance, guide, handbook, lead, management, running, supervision, textbook, tutelage, tutorage, tutorship), ръководене (conduct), командуване (command), качества на водач, водачество (headship, hegemony, helm). (various references)

Chinese		领导 (leader, leaders), � �導能力 , � �導 (lead, leading, to lead). (various references)

Czech		vedení (conduct, conduction, conduit, direction, government, guidance, lead, line), vùdcovství. (various references)

Danish		lederskab, lederegenskaber. (various references)

Dutch		leiderschap. (various references)

Farsi		رهبری (Aim, Conduction, Direction, Guidance, Lead, Steer). (various references)

Finnish		johtajaominaisuudet. (various references)

French		leadership. (various references)

German		führung (axle-box guide, captaincy, command, commanders, conduct, direction, directors, duct, guidance, guide, guided tour, guideway, hornblock patches, keeping, key, lead, leaders, location, management, pedestral frame, running, Van, vanguard). (various references)

Greek		ηγεσία (command). (various references)

Hebrew		מ� �"י�'ות (hegemony), �"� �"�'�" (administration, headship, helm), �"ברות, ראשות (headship), צמרת (top, treetop, upper class, upper part). (various references)

Hungarian		vezetés (administrative control, captaincy, command, conduct, control, driving, governance, guidance, helm, lead, leading, management, running), parancsnokság (captaincy, comdt, command, commandant, headquarters, hq, leading), irányítás (administration, command, control, direction, governance, guidance, helm, lead, leading, line of conduct, navigation, running). (various references)

Indonesian		kepengurusan, kepemimpinan, kegembalaan (being a herder), bimbingan (guidance). (various references)

Italian		leadership, qualit� del capo, guida (attitude control, bed-way, bracket, conductor, courier, direction, directory, drive, driving, fence, furniture glide, furniture slide, glide, guidance, guide, guidebook, guided tour, handbook, headman, headmen, lead, leader, manager, mentor, rail, reins, runner, scoutmaster, slider, slipper, steering, waveguide), direzione (administration, administrative department, conduct, course, departure, direction, directorate, editing, guidance, head office, lead, line, management, managership, quarter, route, run, running, strike, trend, turn, way), comando (actuation, actuator, bidding, command, control, dictation, drive, fiat, headquarters, headship, lead, mandamus, order, word). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		統率力 (generalship), 統率 (command, generalship, lead), リース�"�業 (ducktail, leader, leads and lags, leasing industry, reader, reasonable, regent style), 指導部 , 指導 (coaching, guidance), 先進 (advance, seniority), 先導 (guidance), 主導権 (hegemony, initiative), 主動 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		リーダーシップ , しどうぶ, しどう (chivalry, coaching, duty of a teacher, guidance, municipal roads, private road, samurai code, starting, this art or field of study), しゅどうけ�" (hegemony, initiative), しゅどう (main leadership, manual), せ�"し�" (absorption, advance, concentration, linesman, meditation, seniority, undivided attention), せ�"どう (abet, abetting, agitation, boatman, guidance), とうそつりょく (generalship), とうそつ (command, generalship, lead), とうりつりょく (generalship). (various references)

Korean		지도� �. (various references)

Manx		leeideilys (direction finding, guidance), leeideiltys. (various references)

Norwegian		ledelse (direction, lead). (various references)

Pig Latin		eadershiplay

Portuguese		leadership, qualidades de chefia, pequeno artigo de fundo, comando (behest, bidding, captaincy, charge, command, command signal, commando, conduct, control, energy, leading, mastery, order, power, primer, steering, tune up), chefia (command, direction, guidance, headship, leading, management, streamline, supervision). (various references)

Romanian		direcţiune (course, direction, trend), direcţie (bearing, board, course, departure, direction, directorate, drift, lay, manager's office, mastership, path, run, set, setting, track, trend, way), conduitã (behavior, behaviour, conduct, course, dealing, demeaneour, goings on, habit), conducere (administration, conduct, control, direction, directorate, driving, governance, government, guidance, helm, lead, leading, management, mastership, scepter, sceptre, steerage, superintendence, sway), şefie. (various references)

Russian		руководство (directing, direction, directorship, enchiridion, generalship, governance, guidance, guide, handbook, headship, manual, service manual, textbook). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		liderstvo, vođstvo (lead, management), vođe, rukovodstvo (management), rukovođenje (managing), komandovanje. (various references)

Spanish		liderazgo, liderato (lead), dotes de mando. (various references)

Swedish		ledarskap (captaincy, captainship, headship), ledarförmåga. (various references)

Thai		ผู้นำของกลุ่ม, ตำแหน่งผู้นำ, ความสามารถในการเป็นผู้นำ. (various references)

Turkish		liderlik (captaincy, captainship), önderlik (captaincy, captainship, lead). (various references)

Turkmen		яolbaюзylyk. (various references)

Ukranian		управління (administration, agency, authority, control, department, dispensation, disposal, governance, gubernation, guidance, leading, management, office, ordering, presidence, regimen, regiment, ruling, steerage, stewardship, superintendence), керівництво (direction, governance, guidance, headship, lead, leading, presidence). (various references)

Vietnamese		tập thể lânh đạo, sự lânh đạo khả năng lânh đạo, đức tính của người lânh đạo bộ phận lânh đạo. (various references)

Welsh		arweinyddiaeth, arweiniad (guidance, introduction). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Leadership

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	hegemonia. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ducatum, ducatus, gubernatio, principatu, principatui, principatum, principatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Leadership

Derivations
	Words beginning with "leadership": leaderships. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Leadership" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eadership, leadersh, leadersheep. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Leadership"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "leadership" (pronounced lē"dershi'p)
6	-ē" d er sh i' p	readership.
5	-d er sh i' p	ambassadorship, ridership.
4	-er sh i' p	authorship, censorship, conservatorship, dealership, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, editorship, governorship, membership, ownership, partnership, professorship, proprietorship, receivership, scholarship, speakership, sponsorship, viewership.
3	-sh i' p	airship, apprenticeship, battleship, bipartisanship, brinkmanship, brinksmanship, chairmanship, championship, citizenship, companionship, consulship, craftsmanship, draftsmanship, entrepreneurship, fellowship, flagship, friendship, gamesmanship, generalship, guardianship, gunship, hardship, headship, horsemanship, internship, interrelationship, judgeship, kingship, kinship, Lightship, marksmanship, musicianship, partisanship, premiership, relationship, salesmanship, showmanship, spaceship, sportsmanship, starship, statesmanship, steamship, stewardship, township, trusteeship, upmanship, warship, workmanship.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Leadership

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dealership.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-l-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: eldership, pedaliers, pedlaries, shapelier.
	-2 letters: airspeed, ashlered, earlship, ephedras, espalier, harelips, helipads, hirseled, parslied, pedalier, perished, pharisee, plashier, pleaders, pleiades, raphides, realised, relapsed, relished, repleads, resailed, reshaped, shielder, sidereal, spiraled.
	-3 letters: adheres, aediles, airshed, alipeds, aperies, aphides, aspired, dashier, dealers, dearies, derails, despair, dialers, diapers, diphase, elapids, elapsed, ephedra, hailers, halides, hardies, harelip, harpies, headers, headier, healers, hearsed, helipad, helpers, heralds, hirpled, hirples, hirsled, lapides, leaders, leadier, leapers, leashed, palsied, pearled, pedlars, pedlers, periled, phrased, plashed, plasher, pleader, pleased, pleaser, pleiads, praised, predial, presale, preside, ralphed, raphide, readies, realise, redials, relapse, repeals, replead, replied, replies, reshape, resiled, respade, sepaled, shadier, shalier, sharped, sharpie, sheared, speared, speiled, speired, spheral, sphered, spieled, spieler, spiered.
	-4 letters: adhere, aedile, aeried, aeries, aiders, aisled, alders, alephs, aliped, aphids, ariels, ariled, ashier, ashler, asleep, aspire, dasher, deairs, dealer, dearie, deasil, derail, desire, dialer, diaper, diesel, dispel, drails, drapes, easier, ediles, eiders, elapid, elapse, elders, elides, erased, espial, espied, haeres, hailed, hailer, haired, halers, halide, halids, harped, hasped, header, healed, healer, heaped, hearse, heders, heiled, heired, helped, helper, herald, herpes, hiders, hirple, hirsel, hirsle, ideals, idlers, irades, laders, ladies, lairds, laired, lapsed, lapser, larees, lashed, lasher, leader, leaped, leaper, leased, leaser, lepers, liards, lidars, lieder, lipase, lisped, lisper, padles, padres, paired, palier, palish, pardee, pardie, paries, parish, parled, parles, parsed, pashed, pealed, pearls, pedals, pedlar, pedler, peised, perdie, pereia, perils, perish, pesade, phased, phials, phrase, pished, plaids, pleads, please, pleiad, pliers, praise, prides, prised, radish, railed, raised, ralphs, raphes, raphis, rapids, rasped, reales, reaped, rediae, redial, redias, redips, relaid, relied, relies, relish, repaid, repeal, repels, repled, resaid, resail, resale, reseal, reseda, reship, reside, resile, sailed, sailer, salpid, sealed, sealer, seared, sedile, seidel, serail, serape, seraph, serial, shader, shaird, shaled, shaped, shaper, shared, sheila, sherpa, shield, sidler, slider, sliped, spader, spahee, spared, sparid, sphere, spider, spiled, spiral, spirea, spired, spread.
	-5 letters: aedes, aerie, aider, aides, ailed, aired, aisle, alder, aleph, apers, aphid, aphis, apish, apres, ariel, arils, arise, arles, ashed, aside, asper, dahls, dales, dares, dashi, deair, deals, dears, deash, deeps, deers, deils, deles, delis, dhals, dials, dirls, drail, drape, drees, dries, drips, eared, earls, eased, easel, edile, eider, elder, elide, ephas, erase, hades, hails, hairs, haled, haler, hales, halid, hards, hared, hares, harls, harps, heads, heals, heaps, heard, hears, heder, heeds, heels, heils, heirs, helps, herds, heres, herls, hider, hides, hilar, hired, hires, ideal, ideas, idler, idles, irade, isled, lader, lades, laird, lairs, lapis, lapse, lards, laree, lares, laris, lased, laser, leads.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-l-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: dealerships, leaderships.
	+2 letters: philanderers.
	+4 letters: cephaloridines, hydrocephalies, preestablished, rehospitalized.
	+5 letters: hyperlipidemias, hyperstimulated, radiotelegraphs, radiotelephones.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.