Problem: Leadership can harbor many core elements including personalities, traits, biases, vision, and strategic thinking. Engaging with and challenging our perspectives about leadership is essential to the process of learning about formal leadership theory. In your response, address the following:
1. Describe in detail the top five core leadership skills.
2. Explain whether leadership and management are mutually exclusive, one and the same or something else entirely.
3. Describe the ideological influences of culture and organization and explain how these affect the perceptions of leadership understanding.
4. Analyze the benefits of critical perspectives in the interpretation of leadership and explain how these would apply to one's personal perceptions.