President Clinton once said "Running a country is a lot like running a cemetery; you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." Leadership is the process of influencing others to accomplish operational requirements by providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
Definition:
Operational Intent - The scope, purpose, and methods of operations as defined by the organizational leaders.
AS: "It is the intent of this company..."
This method of leadership is better than others. This article is a business adaptation of a military leadership field manual. Most of the text has been transcribed directly from the field manual. The wording has been modified in some cases to bring the meaning into the scope of the civilian working environment, or to introduce the subject.
This approach to leadership has been chosen because of it's simplicity, clarity, demeanor, and longevity. Here, leadership is the uniquely human skill of actively leading people.