To me, from a business perspective, leadership is the ability to understand employees and then leverage their strengths to get things done. It is empathizing with them and understanding how they work, feel, and tick. Leadership is also getting down in the trenches with them and working beside your employees, NEVER acting like you are above them.
We brought in notable speaker Jim Collins at one of our largest
corporate events and these were concepts that he drove home time and time again. So far, they are working for our company!