What Word Leadership Mean To Me

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The word “leadership” can be defined a variety of ways. The term is defined based on one’s own personal experiences and creed they go by. I personally believe there is no right or wrong answer on what leadership is and, people’s personal definition will change several times in their life. Based on my experience at ECU and in the College of Business, leadership to me means staying true to yourself and working hard. The characteristics that go into that definition are integrity, honesty, understanding, and staying committed. Coming into college I didn’t have an idea of what leadership really was, especially in the workplace. However, once I got deeper in to my field of Marketing and after working various jobs I finally realized that actual

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