| Main Entry: | leadership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guidance |
Synonyms: |
administration, authority, capacity, command, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, directorship, domination, foresight, hegemony, influence, initiative, management, pilotage, power, preeminence, primacy, skill, superintendency, superiority, supremacy, sway |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule, power |
Synonyms: |
ability, absolutism, aplomb, authority, authorization, charge, coercion, compulsion, constraint, control, despotism, domination, dominion, expertise, expertism, expertness, government, grasp, grip, hold, jurisdiction, know-how, leadership, management, might, prerogative, primacy, restraint, right, royalty, skill, sovereignty, strings, supervision, supremacy, sway, tyranny, upper hand |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
Antonyms: |
subordination |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
Synonyms: |
care, carrying on, channels, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, intendance, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, superintendence, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, wielding |
| Main Entry: | direction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
Synonyms: |
administration, charge, command, control, government, guidance, leadership, order, oversight, superintendence, supervision |
| Main Entry: | executive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who manages an organization |
Synonyms: |
CEO, CO, VIP, administration, administrator, big wheel, boss, brass, businessperson, chief, commander, director, directorate, entrepreneur, exec, government, governor, head, head honcho, head person, heavyweight, hierarchy, higher-up, industrialist, key player, leader, leadership, management, manager, officer, official, skipper, supervisor, top brass, tycoon |
| Main Entry: | guidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counseling |
Synonyms: |
advice, auspices, conduct, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, government, help, instruction, intelligence, leadership, management, navigation, supervision, teaching |
| Main Entry: | helm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wheel |
Synonyms: |
command, control, controls, driver's seat, leadership, reins, rudder, steering wheel, tiller |
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, authority |
Synonyms: |
access, agency, ascendancy, character, clout, command, connections, consequence, control, credit, direction, domination, dominion, drag, effect, esteem, fame, fix, force, grease, guidance, hold, impact, importance, imprint, in, juice*, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mark, moment, money, monopoly, network, notoriety, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, prominence, pull, repercussion, reputation, ropes, rule, significance, spell, supremacy, sway, weight* |
Antonyms: |
impotence, incapacity, inferiority, powerlessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | initiative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eagerness to do something |
Synonyms: |
action, ambition, drive, dynamism, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, gumption*, inventiveness, leadership, moxie*, originality, punch, push, resource, resourcefulness, spunk*, steam, vigor |
Antonyms: |
indifference, lethargy |
| Main Entry: | lead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first place, supremacy |
Synonyms: |
advance, advantage, ahead, bulge, cutting edge*, direction, edge, example, facade, front rank, guidance, head, heavy, leadership, margin, model, over, pilot, point, precedence, primacy, principal, priority, protagonist, spark, star, start, title role, top, top spot, vanguard |
Antonyms: |
last |