0.56 I like this leadership definition

Nancy Kline, in 'The Promise That Changes Everything' defines leadership as 'The conscious creation of culture".

I really like this, it is concise and has complexity, simply explained.

If you accept my preferred definition of culture as 'the way things are done around here', then leadership surely sets the tone, by word and deed, and does indeed create the behaviours and words that are become the 'norm'.

What a leader does, and what a leader says (sometimes at odds with what is said), is culture creating, for good or not so good.

Thus the personal code of ethics and of behaviour of the leader is very significant, for this culture creation then impacts on everything else.