What's the difference between generalship and leadership?
Generalship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
(n.) Military skill in a general officer or commander.
(n.) Fig.: Leadership; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain's most powerful television executive has not given an exact timetable for his departure, but friends say he acknowledges that he has entered the final chapter of his eight-year director generalship and is "psychologically ready" to leave a job that paid him £779,000 last year.
(2) Well, no-one could claim Shorten’s own generalship, as displayed during his AWU years, represented any sort of “working class rebellion” – faux or otherwise.
(3) "It is important we recognise the leadership and generalship of Sir Douglas Haig in commanding what was the largest land force ever to leave these shores," he said.
(4) Ofcom also said that Ed Richards, its chief executive, would not be formally recusing himself from any decisions regarding Newsnight - despite speculation that the regulator could again become a candidate for the vacant BBC director generalship.
(5) And while Wellington's generalship and the courage of his motley collection of soldiers held Napoleon's 72,000 men at bay through the day, it was only the arrival of more than 45,000 Prussian troops under Marshal Blücher that turned the tide and drove the French from the field.
(6) "Amano's director-generalship began under a bad star," said Mark Hibbs, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .
(7) After years of communities, activists, scholars and the government working to make issues of race and policing part of the national conversation, a Sessions attorney generalship would effectively end cooperative efforts between federal and local governments on issues of police reform and accountability.
(8) The director generalship is not decided in the newspapers."
(9) In a profile he wrote many years ago of the legendary Post editor Ben Bradlee, Remnick remarked: 'Generalship is not about fighting the battle; it's about inspiring the enlisted.'
(10) The absence of candidates with management and editorial experience has led to speculation that the traditional role of editor in chief could be separated from the director generalship, but the dual function is written into the royal charter so it is unlikely that will be a practical solution.
(11) The much criticised executive spent the last days of his short-lived director generalship preparing intensively for his appearance, which is expected to last several hours, and comes as the Pollard inquiry moves into its third week of evidence, having seen most of the senior BBC executives touched by the Savile film that never aired.
(12) Thompson was initially piqued that Patten had begun to talk so openly about a BBC without him in charge, and his initial response was to have the BBC issue a statement saying that there was no vacancy for the director generalship, as he hoped to concentrate on preparations for what he describes as the biggest year in the BBC's history, with the diamond jubilee in June and the Olympics in July.
(13) Some of the most excoriating criticisms of British generalship, even the case for fighting in 1914, come from military historians mostly associated with the Conservative side.
(14) "The director generalship is a very big job, and you have to grow into it.
(15) Through the director generalships of Greg Dyke and Mark Thompson this message has never been explicitly reversed in the way it should have been.
Leadership
Definition:
(n.) The office of a leader.
Example Sentences:
(1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(2) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
(3) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
(4) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(5) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(6) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
(7) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
(8) If I don’t agree with the leadership of the party, I don’t vote for it.
(9) But he insisted that there had to be “proper succession planning” before he would relinquish the leadership.
(10) These eight countries should show leadership to ensure this doesn’t happen again,” Zerbo said.
(11) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(12) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(13) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(14) In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia – three countries that toppled three dictators nearly four years ago – 2014 marked something of a comeback for the concept of strongman leadership.
(15) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
(16) Last night the EDL said in an emailed statement that it was "not aware of any contact between Breivik and EDL leadership … of anyone using the name Sigurd and the forum".
(17) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
(18) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(19) He told journalists he was concerned about the risk that government departments were not acting coherently because of a lack of energy and leadership.
(20) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.