Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Leadership, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: Several factors can influence a successful leadership and leadership can affect social environments and entire societies. The characteristics of leadership are thus important to be understood from their scholarly origin to their recent developments, in their multi-party-concepts and the influences they take and undergo. This essay considers in five logical steps the characteristics of global leadership, the influences of initial ideas on todays leadership, multi-party-concepts in leadership, the influence of technology on leadership, and how leadership can foster social change.