The assessment of the quality of leadership as a resource for sustainable development

The constraints of sustainable development in an environment marked by high dynamics of the volume, diversity, and magnitude of the changes with a particularly high degree of risk have led to the reorientation of management research towards an inexhaustible cardinal resource: human creativity. The purpose of this research is to highlight the importance of leadership in creating the vision and the team able to implement it, in converting the potential of each member into creative efficiency, in the stimulating synergy of the people to achieve excellence in business and ensure sustainable business development. Also, the main differences between leadership and management, as well as the fundamental qualities that define the leader have been identified. The quantitative research has led to identify on the selected sample the differences in the perception of leadership quality on three dimensions considered relevant: focus on the client, focus on the team, and focus on the results.