“Leadership” can be a fuzzy concept. Ask 100 people, and you’ll likely get a 100 different definitions. Often we feel like US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart who wrote in the obscenity case of Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964):

“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.”

Although leadership isn’t exactly pornography (most of the time), many of us may struggle to define it but still feel like we know it when we see it.

With that said, here’s my attempt:

“Leadership is the sustained ability to achieve extraordinary results by engaging the collective efforts of others.”

What’s your definition of “leadership”?

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