This note presents an 11-element model of leadership that includes the environment, the individual, the followers, the task of the organization, and the relationships among those elements. The note also includes a list of more than 50 leadership references for further reading. Excerpt UVA-OB-0380 GENERAL MODEL OF LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS: A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models–that is, they are responsible for learning. —Peter Senge, Fifth Discipline The chief executive officer (CEO) of a Fortune 500 company realizes that the way his company has been managing its hundreds of thousands of employees is not working anymore. The woman in charge of a major telecommunications company seeks to revise the culture of her firm so it can compete in the next century. A member of a global project team developing a new product worries that the approach the team is taking will not work. A single parent facing evening responsibilities wonders how to manage homework and “life's lessons” conversations with headstrong teenagers. . . .