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.