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Leadership is the process of influencing others to work willingly towards an organisation’s goal to the best of their capabilities. Koontz et al. (1986) explain that “[t]he essence of leadership is followership. In other words it is the willingness of people to follow that makes a person a leader” [1].
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Idowu, S.O. (2015). L. In: Idowu, S., Capaldi, N., Fifka, M., Zu, L., Schmidpeter, R. (eds) Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10536-9_12
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