Chapter 2: An Overview of the Leadership Competency Framework

The topic of leadership is an extremely popular one. It is of interest in a broad range of contexts, including business, politics, health care, sports, religion, government, and education – each of which has multiple audiences of potential readers, among them students, professionals, and scholars. From whatever perspective one approaches the study of leadership, an early discovery relates to the vastness and diversity of writings available on the subject. In 2015, Amazon, for instance, listed more than 57,000 books with the word “leadership” in the title (Iarocci, 2015). Some 1,500 paperback titles were published in 2015 alone – roughly four new books per day (Iarocci, 2015). In addition to the influx of new books on the subject are the thousands of popular and academic articles in print and electronic format.