leader
Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. The word "leadership" often gets vi ...
is one who influences or leads others.
Leader may also refer to:
Leader, Saskatchewan
Leader is a town in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, located approximately directly east of Calgary, Alberta and is near the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta. It has a population of 863 as of 2016.
History
Before settlement, the Lea ...
Leader House
Leader House is a Georgian townhouse located on Surrey Street in the city centre of Sheffield, England. It overlooks the busy Arundel Gate dual carriageway and is a Grade II listed building.
History
The house was built in 1770 by the Duke of N ...
Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician during the 1920s and 1930s who rose to fame when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member ...
(1896–1980), a British politician known to his followers as "The Leader"
Guy Walters
Guy Edward Barham Walters (born 8 August 1971) is a British author, historian, and journalist. He is the author and editor of nine books on the Second World War, including war thrillers, and a historical analysis of the Berlin Olympic Games.
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* "The Leader" (story), a satirical story by Radoje Domanović
* ''The Great Leader'', book 1 in the Detective Sunderson black-comic detective novel series by
Jim Harrison
James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s ...
Music
;Groups, labels, and roles
* Leader (orchestra), a position within an orchestra
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Leader Records (UK)
Leader Records was a British folk music record label, started by Bill Leader. Between 1969 and 1978, Leader released many important releases of both traditional and folk revival performers, the latter category including Nic Jones, Martin Simps ...
, a folk music record label
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Leader Records (US)
Kapp Records was an independent record label started in 1954 by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp (who set up American Decca Records in 1934). David Kapp founded his own label after stints with Decca and RCA Victor. Kapp licensed its records to L ...
, a subsidiary of Kapp Records
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The Leaders
The Leaders is a jazz supergroup formed in 1983.
The initial lineup of the Leaders was put together in 1983 by saxophonist Chico Freeman and featured trumpeter Don Cherry, alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, along with a rhythm section of pianist Don ...
, a musical group
;Songs
* "The Leader," a song by The Clash on the album ''
Sandinista!
''Sandinista!'' is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. It crosses various genres including funk, reggae, jazz, g ...
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Newspapers
Current newspapers
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Leader Community Newspapers
The Leader Community Newspaper group publishes 20 digital titles covering metropolitan Melbourne.
The group was downsized in 2016 and in 2020. Prior to this, it published 33 weekly print titles which were delivered to over 1.4 million homes. In ea ...
, a series of 33 local papers in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia
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Regina Leader-Post
The ''Regina Leader-Post'' is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a member of the Postmedia Network.
Founding
The newspaper was first published as ''The Leader'' in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, ...
'', formerly the ''Leader'', in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
* ''Liverpool Leader'', formerly the ''Leader'', a newspaper published in
Liverpool, New South Wales
Liverpool is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately south-west of the Sydney CBD. Liverpool is the administrative seat of the local government area of the City of Liverpoo ...
Flower Mound, Texas
Flower Mound is an incorporated town located in Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Located northwest of Dallas and northeast of Fort Worth adjacent to Grapevine Lake, the town derives its name from a prominent mound locate ...
State University of New York at Fredonia
The State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia) is a public university in Fredonia, New York, United States. It is the westernmost member of the State University of New York. Founded in 1826, it is the sixty-sixth-oldest institute of ...
Pioneer Newspapers
Pioneer News Group was an American media company.
Overview
It was founded in 1974 and it is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It was owned by the Scripps family, who also started the E. W. Scripps Company. Its printing facilities are in Idah ...
in Tremonton, Utah, United States
* ''The Leader'' (Welsh newspaper), a daily paper in Wales
* ''The Leader'', a nickname for the ''
New Hampshire Union Leader
The ''New Hampshire Union Leader'' is a daily newspaper from Manchester, the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. On Sundays, it publishes as the ''New Hampshire Sunday News.''
Founded in 1863, the paper was best known for the cons ...
'' newspaper in New Hampshire, United States
* ''The Leader'', common name for the ''
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
The ''St George and Sutherland Shire Leader'' is an Australian Community Media-owned community newspaper distributed in the southern Sydney region. It currently has a monthly readership of 423,832 people and caters for the St George and Suther ...
'', in Southern Sydney, Australia
* ''
Limerick Leader
The ''Limerick Leader'' is a weekly local newspaper in Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 1889. The newspaper is headquartered on Glentworth Street in the City.
The broadsheet paper currently is distributed in three editions, City, County and ...
'', in Limerick, Ireland
Former newspapers
* ''
Labour Leader
The ''Labour Leader'' was a British socialist newspaper published for almost one hundred years. It was later renamed ''New Leader'' and ''Socialist Leader'', before finally taking the name ''Labour Leader'' again.
19th century
The origins of the ...
D. P. Moran
David Patrick Moran ( ga, Dáithí Pádraig Ó Móráin; 22 March 1869 – 31 January 1936), better known as simply D. P. Moran, was an Irish journalist, activist and cultural-political theorist, known as the principal advocate of a specificall ...
Leader (character)
The Leader (Samuel Sterns) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Leader first appeared in ''Tales to Astonish'' #62, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko as the archenemy of the Hulk. He h ...
, a fictional character from Marvel Comics
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Film leader
A film leader is a length of film attached to the head or tail of a film to assist in threading a projector or telecine. A leader attached to the beginning of a reel is sometimes known as a head leader, or simply head, and a leader attached to the ...
, a length of film that aids in threading a filmstrip
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Leading article
An editorial, or leading article (UK) or leader (UK) is an article written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper, magazine, or any other written document, often unsigned. Australian and major United States newspapers, suc ...
, a piece of writing intended to promote an opinion, also called an editorial
* ''The Leader'' (web series), a Chinese web series about
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
LEADER programme
The community-led local development (CLLD) funding approach, initially limited to the rural areas under the name LEADER (the acronym standing for french: Liaison entre actions de développement de l'économie rurale, en, Links between actions fo ...
, a European Union initiative for rural development
Other uses
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Front-runner
In politics, a front-runner (also spelled frontrunner or front runner) is a leader in an electoral race. While the front-runner in athletic events (the namesake of the political concept) is generally clear, a political front-runner, particularly i ...
Leader (spark)
A leader is a hot, highly conductive channel of plasma that plays a critical part during dielectric breakdown within a long electric spark.
Mechanism
When a gas is subjected to high voltage stress, the electric field is often quite non-uniform ne ...
, part of an electrical spark
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Leader (typography)
A leader in typography is a series of characters, usually lines of dots or dashes, that are used as a visual aid to connect items on a page that might be separated by considerable horizontal distance. For example, dot leaders are often used in t ...
, a row of characters (usu. dots or dashes) to connect items across a page (as in a table of contents)
* River Leader, river in Scotland
* Leader, in angling, the section of
fishing line
A fishing line is a flexible, high-tensile cord used in angling to tether and pull in fish, in conjunction with at least one hook. Fishing lines are usually pulled by and stored in a reel, but can also be retrieved by hand, with a fixed attach ...
between the main line and the hook
* Leader, in architecture, a synonym for
downspout
A downspout, waterspout, downpipe, drain spout, drainpipe, roof drain pipe,Francis Joseph Patry 1974. Roof Drain ArrangementUnited States Patent 3909412< or leader is a
leader election
In distributed computing, leader election is the process of designating a single process as the organizer of some task distributed among several computers (nodes). Before the task has begun, all network nodes are either unaware which node will se ...
* Leader, an appliance sub-brand of
Haier
Haier Group Corporation () is a Chinese multinational home appliances and consumer electronics company headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells products including refrigerators, air conditioners, washin ...
* SR Leader class, an experimental British steam locomotive
* In engineering drawing, a ''leader'' or ''leader line'' is a thin line connecting a label or dimension with the part to which it applies
Orchestra leader
The concertmaster (from the German ''Konzertmeister''), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (or clarinet in a concert band). After the conductor, the concertmaster is the second-most signifi ...
Scout leader
A Scout leader or Scouter generally refers to the trained adult leader of a Scout unit. The terms used vary from country to country, over time, and with the type of unit.
Roles
There are many different roles a leader can fulfill depending on t ...
Team leader A team leader is a person who provides guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a group of individuals (the team) for the purpose of achieving a key result or group of aligned results. Team leaders serves as the steering wheel for a group ...