In the age of knowledge we live in, everyone agrees that it is the employees, not the material or financial resources, who bring organizations and nations a competitive advantage and distinguish the excellent from the less successful. Furthermore, it is the employees who do the work, thanks to whom the organizations achieve their goals. However, in order for employees to really be the most valuable resource, they need to have adequate competencies (abilities, knowledge and skills), the necessary means of work (equipment and appropriate training) and be motivated, and well guided. Leadership is a generally attractive topic and much has been written about it in popular science journals and professional literature. Despite the amount of writing on the subject, leadership is a major challenge for practitioners and researchers interested in understanding the nature of leadership because leadership is a very important and complex phenomenon. One of the common components of defining and explaining leadership is that it is a process of influence that helps a group of individuals to achieve a goal, leadership is defined as a process by which an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. Because both leaders and followers are part of the leadership process, it is important to discuss the issues that followers face as well as the issues that leaders face. Leaders and followers should be viewed in relation to each other. In earlier approaches, much research has focused on leadership as a trait. The perspective of traits indicates that certain people in society have special innate qualities that make them a leader. Leadership limits this view to those who are believed to have special characteristics. In contrast, the approach we use in this paper indicates that leadership is a learning process that is accessible to everyone. The paper points out the existing differences between men's and women's leadership styles and the importance of an organization that learns and manages its knowledge on a daily basis in order to gain a competitive advantage over others, and ensure continuous progress with knowledge.