An Philosophical Research On The Art Of Leadership

The art of leadership is an important aspect of influencing leading of activity's effect. Researching the art of leadership has important theoretical and realistic meanings. Theory circles have had comparatively rich and ripe achievements, but theory circles have great divergences in understanding the art of leadership. These divergences originate from the different understanding to the nature of leadership. The article shows that lead is an action that is in the core of influencing human being, including organization granted influence force and individual influence force's role correspondingly, the art of leadership should be understood from leading action of effectively influencing subordinate of staff, and it should be distinguished from the method and skill of leadership. Therefore, from the beginning of analyzing influence force's feature, this article expounds separately modern leading art's content from legal power, compessed power, awarding power, expert power and model. And it emphasizes a comprehensive using of the five influencing forces. Meanwhile, since the art of leadership has flexibility and open character, its cultivation and improvement are possible. On the basis of analyzing leading art's influential factors, this article expounds the ways of cultivating and improving art of leadership self-study and organizing reform.