Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, University of Southern California, language: English, abstract: In this essay the question "How to be a successsful leader?" will be shortly analysed. Therefor the criterias for successful leadership are explained.A leader in an organization is one of the crucial elements to be successful. How a leader performs leadership in the organization changes entire results in positive ways, and even negative ways. There are many things to understand to be a good leader: what are a leader and leadership, and what a leader needs to perform good leadership. In addition, we need to know how we can cultivate good leaders.