leadership

Noun

leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)

1. The capacity of someone to lead others.
   • Wise, determined leadership matters most.
   • Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government. I do not mean the leadership of the band of good fellows and good schemers who followed President Harding, nor the purely perfunctory party loyalty which has part of the time in part of the country sustained the present Chief Executive....1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Presentation”, in The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, pages 28–29
2. A group of leaders.
   • People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in The New York Times
   • Companies should survey their employees regularly to evaluate the implementation among the leaderships and peers.2018 December 10, Kathryn Vasel, “How to create a company culture that works”, in CNN
3. The office or status of a leader.