Leadership can be discussed from different perspectives such as organizational, political, military, religion, and business. There are also different kinds of leadership styles such as strategic, charismatic, transformational, and ethical. This paper focuses on the perspective of organizational leadership, irrespective of leadership style. Although the paper focuses on organizational leadership in general; it fits business organizations much better.

Leadership can be discussed from different perspectives such as organizational, political, military, religion, and business. There are also different kinds of leadership styles such as strategic, charismatic, transformational, and ethical. Although this commentary focuses on the perspective of organizational leadership, the main point will be who effective leaders irrespective of their leadership style are.

There are written and unwritten social contracts between businesses and societies that leadership and strategy should deal with. Society is becoming more and more pluralistic making business and societal relationships more dynamic. A pluralistic society often has a multitude of stakeholders and special interests which is characterized by tens of thousands of special-interest groups. Diversified stakeholders and interests can be dealt with better when they are approached by strategic leadership.