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Leadership requires providing guidance to shape the company's goals and pushing people to
achieve them, whereas administration entails distributing responsibilities and exercising
authority. People who are given a formal leadership role in their organization are referred to as
assigned leaders. An emergent leader, on the other hand, is someone who becomes a leader as a
result of how other members of the group react to them. Whether leadership was assigned or
emerged, a person is a leader when they are involved in it.
To be a leader, employees do not need to be in management. Although it is a prevalent fallacy
that leadership is solely concerned with the supervision of others, this is not a necessary attribute
of leadership. Leaders can be found at many levels of a company. Employees who do not have
anyone reporting to them on an organizational chart are capable of demonstrating stronger
leadership qualities to those who hold the titles of manager or director. Leadership isn't about a