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Public education, local government and public services are group activities in which profit does not apply at least directly. Nevertheless, their operation is greatly facilitated if the principles of Business Organization and Management are applied to them. The issue of effective leadership in an organization is one of the most critical issues in modern societies, especially nowadays when the conditions of crisis shape competitive and rapidly changing situations in the workplace. Effective leadership is a constant challenge, since a series of factors hinder the development of employees' capabilities, the creation of team spirit, the building of a collective vision, the launch of a common perspective, the formation of a healthy work culture. It is clear that the formal and bureaucratic processing of contractual tasks in a labor space does not produce a result that meets the capabilities of employees. On the contrary, where the intervention of a leading figure occurs, the productive result reflects the synthesis and utilization of forces, highlighting characteristics such as innovation, self-motivation, voluntary participation in a common vision, moral satisfaction, professional self-realization. Specifications, terms and conditions-criteria of the leader we seek and find from Ancient Greek Literature, the Renaissance, Byzantium and up to the present day. The specifications of the leader, and the leadership, cannot be a shallow moralism, but essential existing elements that aim to enhance and deepen it, but also to develop and improve it in order to contribute to lasting success that seems to depend on personal work, to require imagination, research, patience, perseverance and creative effort to connect the "parts", the "elements" of the group or society, in order to overcome and expand its limits of development. Konstantinos Tsatsos2 leaves us in his "Greek course" as a legacy the following: "Leadership in a modern state is not a one-party construct. It is a pyramidally formed group of people, led by the first, let's call him that, leader. This leader will choose 1 Inazo Nitobe, "Bushido, The Code of the Samurai", Introduction by V. G. Polydoras, ed. Kastanioti, Athens 1996, p. 24 2 Constantine Tsatsos was a Greek jurist, philosopher and politician who served as President of the Republic. He pursued an academic career, being elected full professor of philosophy of law at the Athens Law School and a member of the Academy of Athens, of which he also served as president. -9- the leaders under him. Again, the leaders under him, who must also have leadership qualities, must choose the leaders under them. So we gradually descend to that circle of simple executioners, who have a completely limited initiative. The leader must know how to choose his associates and, when the time comes, his successors. 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In order to avoid confusion between the terms Leadership and Management, it was considered appropriate to record the elements that differentiate the two concepts ASSUMPTIONS The factors taken into account which influence the development of the topic are: 1. The leader is born and becomes. 2. The reference is made to leaders of "Western societies, democratic states and well-governed societies.3 3. Virtue is taught as well as cultivated. (Aristotle., pp. 5-15) DEFINITIONS For a better understanding of work, we will develop some of the terms related to it and they are as follows: 1. System It is a set of interdependent units or objects (inanimate or animate) considered in conjunction with the set of Laws, which govern the relations between them. The set of units or objects constitutes the composition of the system, while the set of laws constitutes the operation of the system. 2. Enterprise - 10 - They are a set of individuals and means engaged with each other in a specific way, to accomplish a specific objective (or more). With a little attention the reader will notice that the term "Enterprise" is identical to the term 'System'. That is indeed the case! Because, what else constitutes an "Enterprise", from all the working people within it, considered in conjunction with the means at its disposal and with some objective. With the generality of the term "Enterprise" that we adopt here, we are not limited only to Commercial and Industrial Enterprises. Non-profit enterprises or state service providers (i.e. public services and similar entities) are well included in the generality of the above definition. 3 It is accepted that many principles of leadership and characteristics of the leader can be found, for example, in authoritarian regimes and Islamic societies, but not all of them and not with the same importance and hierarchy And in Public Services we have movement of people and means, under a certain set of rules, to achieve a set of objectives such as the provision of services. Therefore, what is developed in the following is valid for any "form" and "nature" of Enterprises, which fall under the above definition. 3. Productivity Productivity can be considered as the volume of production of goods and services, relative to the means consumed to carry out this production. The task of the business executive is to achieve precisely the greatest possible productivity. 4. Work It is the activity of the individual, referred to as "freedom of action", in order to achieve certain objectives. The examination of an activity, which we can consider as human labor, will lead to the enumeration of certain characteristics. Thus, we will find that there is always an objective or more, as well as some kind of raw materials, i.e. primary energy sources, required to carry out the project in question. 5. Project It is the result that must be achieved within a certain period of time. In any project there is a specific or conditional, explicit or implicit, time limit that determines when it is desirable to achieve the objectives that will be fulfilled by completing that project. 6. Role It is the position occupied by an individual in an organization and related to a specific task or group of projects, in the sense of the terms defined above. It is emphasized that it is particularly important to be able to separate the "personality" of the person from the role that this person is called upon to play each time. PURPOSE The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of leadership, what it means and from where it is determined to be effective, whether it can guarantee lasting success and what it is, in a modern and constantly changing world and whether effective leadership contributes to the development of an Organization.