Leadership: Past, present, and future

Abstract

Leadership is omnipresent in research in the organizational sciences and related professional practice. In this essay, for an editors' choice selection, leadership research is selectively reviewed, summarized, integrated, and speculated on using three broad time periods: antiquity to about 1900 (called the "past"), 1900 to the current time (called the "present"), and the next decade or so (called the "future"). Leadership theory, empirical research, and methodologies are considered. © The Authors 2013.