BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Leader
- a business executive who possesses exceptional leadership qualities as well as management skills
- the most successful product or company in a marketplace
Wiktionary Definition for: Leader
- #One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially:
- Ex:(a) One who goes first.
- Ex:(b) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
- Ex:(c) music A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
- Ex:(d) nautical A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- Ex:(e) engineering obsolete The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. (G. Francis)
- Ex:(f) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
- Ex::'''Quotations'''
- Ex::* He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times. - Hare?
- Ex:(g) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
- Ex:(h) cattag fishing A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Ex:(i) cattag fishing A section of line between the main fly line and the snell, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
- Ex:(j) ''(Mining):'' A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- #The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
- #''(Printing)''
- Ex:(a) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- Ex:(b) ''(plural):''. a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- # film A piece of blank film at the beginning of a movie to allow the film to be threaded in the projector.
Additional Resources
- The Five Things That Make a Leader
- The Five Things That Make a LeaderBEYOND LEADERSHIP....Beyond MANAGEMENT and LEADERSHIP: Behold LEADAGEMENT BISIKAY, Director, The Global LEADAGEMENT Institute, London, U K. bisikay@gmail.com / leadagement@gmail.comMANAGEMENT'S NEXT BIG IDEA..."LEADAGEMENT!"I have come to realise that once we moved away from MANAGERIALISM to, and, from the LEADERSHIP models of EXECUTIVE deployment and development, a...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- No-one Wants a Nice Leader
- No-one Wants a Nice LeaderMaybeIt depends on the book you read. "Good to great" presents evidence that businesses do not survive a charismatic leader after they leave i.e. Lee Iacocca. Chrysler died when he retired.Next, why is your process driving strategy? That seems counter intuitive. Shouldn't...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Joint Statement of House Speaker Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Frist, House Democratic Leader Pelosi, and Senate Democratic Leader Reid
- WASHINGTON, May 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) today announced the establishment of a SpeciWASHINGTON, May 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Senate...
- Research articles 2005-05-31
- DTN News: Pakistan Taliban Scramble To Replace Dead Leader
- DTN News: Pakistan Taliban Scramble To Replace Dead Leader*CIA missile kills widely feared Baitullah Mehsud, seen as mastermind behind Bhutto assassination*Source: DTN News / Toronto Star By Ayesha Akram in Lahore, Pakistan ~ Rick Westhead in New DelhiNSI News Source Info LAHORE, Pakistan - August 8, 2009: He was one...
- News items 2009-08-09
- Promote Yourself By Promoting Your Leader
- The article tries to focus on what do successful leaders look for when they hire or promote people to front line supervisor, manager or even senior leadership positions. The same guidelines one must follow if he is the appointee and wants to serve and manage the leader successfully. Technical skills...
- White papers 2001-03-23
- 5 Ways to be an Exceptional Leader
- 5 Ways to be an Exceptional LeaderRE: 5 Ways to be an Exceptional LeaderThe leader is one who believes compulsory most in the draft who manages the group. The leader is one who believes in objective, but also in the team. In order to give his team confidence, the leader...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Does The Leader Make A Difference? Relationship Between Executive Leader Personality And Entrepreneurial Firm Performance
- The purpose of this study was to expand research on personality and leadership by investigating the relationship between executive leader personality and firm performance. Drawing from research on the five-factor model of personality the Big Five, executive leader emotional adjustment low neuroticism and conscientiousness were hypothesized to be positively related...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- The Leader - Follower Partnership: It's A New Day
- From the executive summary: ‘The danger in the leader-follower relationship is the assumption that the leader's interpretation must dominate. If the assumption exists on the part of either the leader or the follower, both are at risk. The leader's openness will diminish. Followers will easily lose their unique perspective and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Unconventional Leader Behavior, Subordinate Satisfaction, Effort and Perception of Leader Effectiveness
- In an effort to conduct an initial investigation into the concept of unconventional leader behavior and determine its utility for future research, the authors' examined the relationship between a leader's unconventional behavior and followers' satisfaction, perception of leader effectiveness, and perception of effort exerted in an experimental setting. The results...
- White papers
- No-one Wants a Nice Leader
- When it comes to leadership, do nice guys finish last? Are the two mutually exclusive? Professor Jean-Francois Manzoni at business school IMD seems to indicate as much in "Big Ego Leadership". People want to work for someone who engages employees and listens to their ideas. But Manzoni...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- How To Be An Ideal Leader For Your Business
- The definition of leadership is that an in order to be an effective leader you must be able to persuade your employees to accomplish a goal. It is important for a leader to contribute as much as the employee. A good leader does not need to exert power through fear...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Recurring nightmare: broker's fraud trial to rekindle memories of problems at Leader. (Leader Mortgage Co.)
- A criminal trial scheduled for U.S. District Court here next month could reopen a messy chapter in the history of Leader Mortgage Co. Leader, one of Cleveland's largest mortgage generators with a portfolio of more than $2 billion, claims it was a victiA criminal trial scheduled for...
- Research articles 1993-04-05
- Siebel Systems Named 2005 CRM Market Leader for Enterprise, Marketing Automation, and Midmarket by CRM Magazine; CEO George Shaheen Named Influential Leader to Watch
- SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL), a leading provider of customer-facing solutions, today announced that CRM Magazine has selected Siebel Systems as a Market Leader in the Enterprise, Midmarket, and Marketing Automation CRM categories of the 2005 Market Leader Awards. Siebel CEO George Shaheen was named "One to...
- Research articles 2005-09-26
- The Emotional Intelligent Leader: Just What We Need To Survive & Thrive
- A competently skilled Emotional Quotient EQ leader retains top talent, has lower turnover, engages employees positively, and lowers the risk of unlawful harassment litigation, to name just a few benefits. Think of the thousands if not millions of dollars the EQ leader potentially saves an organization! But wait, there's more!...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Market Leader Inc. Q3 2008 (Qtr End 09/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptMarket Leader Inc. LEDR Q3 2008 Earnings Call November 17, 2008 4:30 pm ET Executives Ian Morris – CEO Jacqueline Davidson – VP of Finance Mark Lamb – Director IR Presentation Operator Welcome to Market Leader conference call regarding results for the third quarter of...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-17
- Market Leader Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptMarket Leader Inc. LEDR Q3 2008 Earnings Call November 17, 2008 4:30 pm ET Executives Ian Morris – CEO Jacqueline Davidson – VP of Finance Mark Lamb – Director IR Presentation Operator Welcome to Market Leader conference call regarding results for the third quarter of...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-17
- CipherTrust named global leader market leader second year in a row by leading analyst firm; Quantitative research shows CipherTrust revenue greater than combination of four closest vendors.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-11 October 2005-CipherTrust: CipherTrust named global leader market leader second year in a row by leading analyst firm; Quantitative research shows CipherTrust revenue greater than combination of four closest vendorsC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11102005 CipherTrust, Inc., the global market leader...
- Research articles 2005-10-11
- Canadian Leader Concludes Acquisitions
- CALGARY, Alberta--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 30, 1995--CANADIAN LEADER ENERGY (Alberta Stock Exchange:LOL) Canadian Leader Energy Inc. ("Canadian Leader") announces that it has concluded the previously announced acquisitions of Sunlite Oil Company Limited and 41.98% of Canadian Oil and Gas Limited Partnership-1.Canadian Leader announces that it has satisfied all of the requirements under...
- Research articles 1995-01-30
- Canadian Leader & SMI Oil & Gas confirm share ratio exchange
- CALGARY, ALBERTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 30, 1995--CANADIAN LEADER (TSE: LOL ME: SMI) CANADIAN LEADER ENERGY INC. ("Canadian Leader") and SMI OIL & GAS INC. ("SMI") jointly announce that the proposed share exchange ratio for the previously announced combination of Canadian Leader and SMI is 1 share of Canadian Leader for each 2.2...
- Research articles 1995-08-30
- Canadian Leader Energy - Consolidation and Name Change
- CALGARY, Alberta--BUSINESS WIRE--May 27, 1997--Cdn Leader(TSE LOL.) CANADIAN LEADER ENERGY INC. - The common shares of CENTURION ENERGY INTERNATIONAL INC. ("Centurion") will be listed at the opening on Tuesday, May 27, 1997 under the stock symbol and CUSIP number listed below in substitution for the presently listed common shares of...
- Research articles 1997-05-27
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