Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, University of Bradford (Bradford Centre of International Development), course: MSc in Project Planning and Management, language: English, abstract: Leadership and its role is the most apprehension for the project, business, or organization. Project leadership is commonly pondered to be an imperative aspect of project management. It plays an imperative role in team performance and productivity. Leaders select vision for organization then he/she inspires and guides employees throughout the work processes. The paper covers some particular areas of leadership. Firstly, the leadership roles examines based on the competencies to address different contextual. The importance of leadership compiles in the next section to manage projects or organizations. Then, the different styles of leadership are presented and analyzed based on literatures. The issues on effective leadership has discussed on succeeding section for effective project management.