The word leadership can refer to: · The process of leading. · Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading. · The ability to affect human behavior so as to accomplish a mission designated by the leader Categories and types of leadership leadership is a quality a person may have. One can categorize the exercise of leadership as either actual or potential: · actual - giving guidance or direction, as in the phrase "the emperor has provided satisfactory leadership". · potential - the capacity or ability to lead, as in the phrase "she could have exercised effective leadership"; or in the concept "born to lead". In both cases, as a result of the constancy of change some people detect within the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the act of learning appears fundamental to certain types of leading and leadership. When learning and leadership coalesce,