In my view, it is first, as necessary as it would be in many other fields. However, an interesting factor to consider in sport management is the unavailability of other players in the industry when it comes to matters management. This unavailability is brought about by lack of the ability to effectively communicate, the motivation by the different players to join the industry and the fact that most sportsmen and women join sports, with the sole purpose of developing their talents and in the process expect to make money. The four primary functions of managers are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Applying these basic functions to sport management, a player or a team requires a plan. This plan should elaborately capture the long term goals, short term objectives, and what is set out operationally on a daily basis. In addition, organizing finances, people as in human resources, revenue generating activities and many other technical aspects is no easy feat. Leading and controlling is required to prevent the establishing of more than one center of power which would otherwise disorient the player, team or sports organization.

I would highly recommend reading the following article:

- Imbroda-Ortiz, Javier, Castillo-Rodríguez, Alfonso & Chinchilla-Minguet, José Luis (2015) Sports Management, Leadership in the Organization, Journal of Physical Education and Sports Management, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 56-65

Leader is inspire, influence and instruct. Not only sports leader is the key in any field

You can define leadership at the individual leader level as the capabilties or practices of individual leaders (Bass, Pouzes etc etc) or at the impact and effect they have on a group of people working towards a shared goal and the contributing factors which are understood and managed in order to optimise the outcome (McCaulley, Pallus etc). For either I'd say it is possible to construct a convincing argument that leadership is key.

At the individual leader level, this will vary in specifics by sport and the environment in which it is played. Some general capabilities will be acumen on understanding the technicalities of the sport, the ways in which it is best played, how it is developed, how motivation and behaviour of those playing it needs to be influenced and how the environment in which it is played needs understood and navigated. So contextual understanding, technical understanding, influencing the player/players, navigating stakeholders and so on. Then specifics for each type of sport. For example Harvard have helped Sir Alex Ferguson to examine his own leadership. There are many other examples as well.

At the leadership outcomes and contributing factors level, then the outcomes sought are Direction, Alignment and Commitment (McCauley). Then determining from that how these have arisen from examining the contributing factors. I've no awareness of studies at this time which have done these.

Hope this helps?

Without leadership victories are not achieved and more in sport

Leadership is extremely important in any field of business, being any sport such as Football, Basketball, any type of racing. Communication is the key to all platforms whether it being college students, small businesses, or sales on Amazon. If, communications are not accomplished correctly or with bad writing skills a company has the chance of failing and possibly going out of business. I beleive some business should have small classes for their employees or players as in Football.

Writing skills are not that diffiult to learn, courses would include classes:

• How to take notes and Annotating
• How to write a paragraph
• What are the Do's and Don'ts in writing

These are just a few classes that can be taught at almost any college or community college. The cost is well worth the time for these businesses to invest in.

Mohammad Negarestani l do concur that leadership is key in sports management as one needs managerial skills to manage resources both physical and human needed in any sports discipline. On the other hand team leadership sills are essential to harness diverse skills to work as unit for a common objective ,for example if its a football team the defense , middle field , wings and forward must work as an oiled outfit in order to fulfil the objective of winning.

I agree with you, leadership comes in many different types. Personally, I would rather have someone that can relate with his/her people, know what their job consists of. I have seen first hand what it is like to have a new "boss" is like that has no idea what is going on around him. He does not speak a word to the employee except to tell him to quote "pick up the pace". All this accomplished were employees with bad attitudes. Most employers keep forgetting that their people keep the business going. Yes, management is the ones that keep their people in line, it's the way they perceive how they want to accomplish their job.

As in all areas of management, leadership can distinguish successful firms from other firms. Because the practices, systems, technologies that are used by firms in one industry become highly commoditized, leadership may become a factor that actually create an advantage.

Radoslaw Nowak Perfectly put indeed its leadership that helps organizations to create competitive advantage.