Leadership and management--guiding principles, best practices, and core attributes.

I n previous Management Moment columns, we have discussed a range of leadership and management issues. This column is designed as a review of guiding principles and best practices of effective leaders along with a discussion of the distinction between management and leadership. There are many definitions of leadership and many perspectives on what leaders do. John Gardner in his book, On Leadership, defines leadership as “the process of persuasion or example by which an individual or team induces a group to act.” Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus provided a simpler way of expressing the essence of the 2 processes: