What is leadership? Why leadership is important? 

Leadership is a process in which a leader influence and support others to work in the enthusiastically towards achieving their desired goals and objectives. leadership helps an individual and group to identify their goals and their ability to achieve the desired goal, after identification of goal and ability leader motivate them to achieve their goals and objective.
Leadership plays crucial role to grow the society and world. It is also very important in all areas weather social, political, organization government agency, school, colleges etc. 
According to koon and O' Donnel :- leadership is generally defined simply as influence the art of process of influencing people so that they will describe willingly towards the achievement of group goals. 

Nature of leaders
1. Leadership is a personal relationship between the leader and his followers
2. There is common objective in leadership between leader and followers. 
3. The leadership should rest with the person who is competent and maintenance a moral
4. Organization of Group. 
5. Success of leadership depends on the followers and organizational climate. 
6. Leadership is a continuous and dynamic process. 

Importance and functions of leadership :- 
Leadership is the significant base of managerial success in an organization. 

The importance and functions of leadership are as:- 
1.Inspiration 
2.Co-operation 
3.Maintaining discipline 
4.Sailing through difficult Times 
5.Conduct of collective work
6.Boosting moral of the subordinates

why Leadership is important
Leadership please and important role in every field of an organisation as well as other fields leadership is important for several reasons. 

1.Setting a clear direction
2.inspiring and motivating team members 3.making tough decisions 
4.creating a positive culture 
5.developing talent

Setting clear direction:- leaders provide a clear vision and direction to the members of team in an organization to achieve their goals and objectives this helps to ensure that everyone is working towards the same goals and objective. 

Inspiring and motivating team members :- there is situation in the organization where employees and team members need motivation leaders motivate them to give their best effort which can lead to higher productivity improve performance and better outcomes

Making tough decision :- leaders often have to make tough decisions that can impact the success of the organization or team strong leadership can help ensure that the right decisions are made even in difficult circumstances. 

Creating a positive culture :- leaders create a positive work culture in an organization that encourages teamwork collaboration and open communication among the employees this helps to build trust and loyalty among team members. 

Developing talent :- there are many employees and team members who have talent and scale but they are unable to identify it and some needs to develop their skill leaders identify their talent and scale and help them to develop skills and talent which helps to build a strong work force.