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Knickerbocker (1948): Leadership exists when a leader is perceived by a
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group as controlling the means for the satisfaction of their needs.”

Decades of academic analysis have given us more than 850 definitions of
leadership. Literally thousands of empirical investigations of leaders have been
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conducted in the last seventy-five years alone, but no clear. Therefore, leadership can
be defined differently around the world. Some theory or action may apply differently

from a group of people to another whereas quite similar to the way people pursue belief
of religion. Because of different communities, the way people give the definition of

leadership also can be divided into several meanings such as religious leadership,

political leadership, and community leadership. Leadership is about mapping out where
one wants to arrive to win as a group of the team or an organization. They help

themselves and others to grasp the goal by doing the right things, setting up the
direction, building hope, inspiring vision, and create something new.

Most of the work needs to be done into two processes which are from thought
and action. Invest the thought and shape it to become a reality. There’re huge

differences in thinking between successful and unsuccessful leaders and people.
Unsuccessful people might think that ‘they don’t know how to do it, they don’t have

that quality to do it, and they stop.’ But successful people think in the same way that

‘they don’t know how to do it, they don’t have that quality to do it yet,’ but they’re not
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stopping there, and continues saying that ‘their job is to go learn that.’ Thus, they
become successful more and more.

2.2 Development of the Concepts of Leadership in the West

The leader is not depending on Holy Buddha nor God a mystical, amazing
magician, uncanny spiritualist but only depending on a man who can influence,

lead, direct, inspire the subordinates to grow where they need to be. Leadership is

26 Bernard M. Bass with Ruth Bass, The Bass Handbook of Leadership Theory,
research, and managerial applications, (London: Free Press, 2008), p. 39.
27 Warren G. Bennis and Burt Nanus, Leaders Strategies for taking Charge, (New
York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 4.
28 Brendon Burchard, How Incredibly Successful People THINK, viewed January
13, 2021, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LfM9ZPGmVY>.